Cahernahoon

63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cahernahoon, from 3 m² to 81,109 m² (8.11 ha, 20.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Cahernahoon in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 11 Mar 2026Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house and domestic garage with a wastewater treatment plant, percolation area, and all associated site works. This application includes a Natura Impact Statement Report

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660372

• 23 Feb 2026Conditional

  for; (a) part two storey part single storey dwelling house, (b) single storey domestic garage, (c) new boundary wall with vehicular entrance to public road, (d) wastewater treatment, landscaping and all associated site services and works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660287

• 20 Jan 2026Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house and domestic garage with a wastewater treatment plant, percolation area, and all associated site works. The application includes a Natura Impact Statement Report

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660053

• 24 Sept 2025Refused

  for 2 no. prefabricated dwellings, wastewater treatment plant, percolation area, access roadway and all associated works

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561379

• 17 Jun 2025Refused

  of 2 No. prefabricated dwellings, wastewater treatment plant, percolation area, access roadway and all associated works. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 86.00 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560774

• 19 Sept 2022Conditional

  the construction of an extension to the side of an existing dwelling, and retention of existing garage and all associated works, floor area- Extension to dwelling 57msq. retention of garage 48msq.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260944

• 5 Dec 2019Conditional

  for the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment plant and percolation area including all associated site works. The planning application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement. Gross floor space of proposed works: 228 sqm - House, 60 sqm - Garage

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191877

• 26 Jul 2019Conditional

  for the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment plant and percolation area including all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 211.7 sqm (House), and 40sqm (Garage).

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191174

• 20 Dec 2018Refused

  for the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment plant and percolation area including all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 211.7 sqm, Garage - 40 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181852

• 3 Dec 2018Conditional

  for alterations to previously approved planning application 18/353. These alterations will include the reduction in size of approved extension and permission for the raising of existing roof of dwelling and conversion of attic to a habitable space and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 154 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181725

• 25 May 2018Conditional

  to roof an existing animal feed area and manure pit and construct a miscellaneous agricultural storage shed. Gross floor space of proposed works 298.15 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18693

• 3 May 2018N/a

  of changes to existing dwelling as constructed, granted under 05/136, on revised site boundaries along with garage and all associated site works and services. Gross floor space of work to be retained 260 sqm.

  Retention · Galway County Council, 18564

• 23 Mar 2018Conditional

  for the construction of an extension to an existing dwelling, alterations to existing vehicular entrances, new treatment plant and percolation area and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works 144 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18353

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Corrib SAC 000297

Recorded monuments

• GA070-014 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  In low-lying level farmland. A subcircular barrow (N-S 22.5m) cut by a field wall running N-S: no visible surface trace survives to E of this wall. It consists of a low central mound (N-S 7m) encircled by a fosse and earthen bank. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cahernahoon.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_671 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Cahernahoon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Cahernahoon · Cathair na hUamhan

Area

712,429 m² (71.24 ha, 176.05 acres)

Civil parish

Lackagh, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Kilmoylan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilmoylan electoral division: 1,171 people in 372 households; 92% of households own their home; 48% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybrone, Corbally, Corbally South, Knockdoebeg East, Monroe

Placenames

Cahernahoon on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.