Cahernalee

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cahernalee, from 35 m² to 131,956 m² (13.2 ha, 32.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Cahernalee 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Cahernalee in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cahernalee.

Recorded monuments

• GA097-044 Castle - tower house
  Description

  In low-lying pastureland overlooking the Dooyertha River the N. This is possibly the castle referred to as 'Cowrly' in the 1574 list of Galway castles (Nolan 1901, 121). It was then in the barony of 'Kingestowne' (Athenry) and was in the possession of 'John Wall'. The tower house has collapsed and all that survives is a grass-over rectangular mound (9.7m N-S; 7.6m E-W) with some large pieces of mortared roughly cut limestone visible. Along the S side a grassed-over section of walling (H 1.5m) appears to be in situ. No architectural features or fragments were evident. The tower house occupies the N half of an associated bawn (GA097-044001-). Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 30 August 2021

• GA097-044001 Bawn
  Description

  This rectangular bawn (30.2m N-S; 22.3m E-W) is associated with a tower house (GA097-044----) which occupies its N half. It survives as a grassed-over mound with internal and external revetment visible intermittently and it is best preserved along the S side (Wth 1.15m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.9m). Hawthorn trees are growing along the W side. Large limestone blocks and collapsed chunks of mortared stone are strewn about the N end of the interior. A large stone-lined pit is visible at NE. A number of breaches occur but the original entrance was not discernible. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 30 August 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cahernalee.

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 Cahernalee with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Cahernalee · Cathair na Lao

Area

771,378 m² (77.14 ha, 190.61 acres)

Civil parish

Kilconierin, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Kilconierin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilconierin electoral division: 741 people in 238 households; 89% of households own their home; 58% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bookeen South, Carrowroe North, Carrowroe South, Greyford, Kiltullagh South, Lisnadrisha, Raherneen

Placenames

Cahernalee 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.