# Cahernalee, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilconierin, barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway; in Irish Cathair na Lao. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 771,378 m² (77.14 ha, 190.61 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 11,819 m² (1.18 ha, 2.92 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilconierin, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/kilconierin.md - Barony: Dunkellin - Electoral division: Kilconierin, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 741 people lived in 238 households in the Kilconierin electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 58% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/19954 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 60774 - Centre: latitude 53.261034, longitude -8.643685 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cahernalee, from 35 m² to 131,956 m² (13.2 ha, 32.61 acres); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2000597: 131,956 m² (13.2 ha, 32.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2000597.md - Parcel 1950812: 114,563 m² (11.46 ha, 28.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1950812.md - Parcel 1950816: 84,501 m² (8.45 ha, 20.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1950816.md - Parcel 1950811: 72,705 m² (7.27 ha, 17.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1950811.md - Parcel 2000596: 57,812 m² (5.78 ha, 14.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2000596.md - Parcel 2000604: 40,432 m² (4.04 ha, 9.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2000604.md - Parcel 1950708: 38,013 m² (3.8 ha, 9.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1950708.md - Parcel 2000602: 37,427 m² (3.74 ha, 9.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2000602.md - Parcel 2000595: 30,465 m² (3.05 ha, 7.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2000595.md - Parcel 1950707: 29,008 m² (2.9 ha, 7.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1950707.md - Parcel 4462352: 25,683 m² (2.57 ha, 6.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4462352.md - Parcel 1950706: 16,188 m² (1.62 ha, 4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1950706.md - Parcel 1950709: 12,102 m² (1.21 ha, 2.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1950709.md - Parcel 2112695: 11,987 m² (1.2 ha, 2.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2112695.md - Parcel 1950810: 11,819 m² (1.18 ha, 2.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1950810.md - Parcel 1950813: 11,494 m² (1.15 ha, 2.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1950813.md - Parcel 1950814: 9,619 m² (0.96 ha, 2.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1950814.md - Parcel 5035068: 6,464 m² (0.65 ha, 1.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5035068.md - Parcel 2000603: 6,130 m² (0.61 ha, 1.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2000603.md - Parcel 2000600: 4,758 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2000600.md - Parcel 2000598: 4,432 m² (0.44 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2000598.md - Parcel 4462353: 3,839 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4462353.md - Parcel 2000599: 3,394 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2000599.md - Parcel 4462033: 2,200 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4462033.md - Parcel 4462351: 2,155 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4462351.md - Parcel 1950815: 1,517 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1950815.md - Parcel 4462032: 706 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4462032.md - Parcel 2000601: 115 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2000601.md - Parcel 4462034: 35 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4462034.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Cahernalee in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cahernalee. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA097-044: Castle - tower house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA097-044----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA097-044001-. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cahernalee. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Cahernalee, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/galway/cahernalee.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/cahernalee.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/cahernalee.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Cahernalee with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Bookeen South: https://everytownland.com/galway/bookeen-south.md - Carrowroe North: https://everytownland.com/galway/carrowroe-north-61036.md - Carrowroe South: https://everytownland.com/galway/carrowroe-south-61038.md - Greyford: https://everytownland.com/galway/greyford.md - Kiltullagh South: https://everytownland.com/galway/kiltullagh-south.md - Lisnadrisha: https://everytownland.com/galway/lisnadrisha.md - Raherneen: https://everytownland.com/galway/raherneen.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/galway/cahernalee - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/cahernalee