Cahernaman
Townland in the civil parish of Kilconickny, barony of Loughrea, Co. Galway; in Irish Cathair na mBan
- Area
- 113.5 ha
- 281 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 13,378 m² (1.34 ha, 3.31 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cahernaman, from 2,146 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres) to 291,354 m² (29.14 ha, 72 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cahernaman 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
1 Sept 2025Conditional
for the construction of a cubicle house extension with slatted tank to include concrete apron and all associated site works
Permission · Galway County Council, 2561231
15 Sept 2021Conditional
for the construction of a dwelling house (258 sqm), garage (47 sqm) wastewater treatment plant, alteration and rehabilitation works to existing stone bridge and all associated site development and external works. the planning application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211689
19 Feb 2021N/a
for development consisting of the construction of a dwelling house (258 sqm), garage (47 sqm), wastewater treatment plant and percolation area and all associated site development and external works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 305 sqm (House: 258 sqm, Garage: 47 sqm)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21206
9 Oct 2020Refused
for development consisting of the construction of a dwelling house (258sqm), garage (47 sqm), wastewater treatment plant and percolation area and all associated site development and external works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 258 msq (house) & 47 msq (garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201479
19 Feb 2018Conditional
to construct a) milking parlour building with collecting yard, livestock handling facilities, dairy, office, store and plant room, slatted tank for soiled water/parlour washings b) erection of rainwater harvesting tank and feed silo c) new cubicle house with underground slatted tank d) erect and overground slurry store & all assoc. site works e) silage pit and dung store. Gross floor space of proposed works (shed) 1355 sqm.
Permission · Galway County Council, 18183
28 Jul 2017Conditional
for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage and a proprietary treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed works 222.5sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171148
17 Feb 2017Conditional
for alteration and extension of existing bungalow style dwelling. Works include demolition of existing single storey side extension, construction of new single storey extension to front & side elevation, new first floor extension, connection to existing site services and associated site development works. Gross floor space proposed 123sqm, demolition 7.8sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17200
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cahernaman.
Recorded monuments
- GA105-039 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a rise in low-lying pastureland. Circular rath (diam. c. 48m), in fair condition, defined by a bank. The foundations of a field wall cut through the monument at NNW and SSE. There are two hollows in the NW quadrant of the interior. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 January 2017
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cahernaman.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 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_967 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cahernaman with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Cahernaman · Cathair na mBan
- Area
- 1,135,306 m² (113.53 ha, 280.54 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilconickny, and its townlands
- Barony
- Loughrea
- Electoral division
- Loughrea Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Loughrea Rural electoral division: 898 people in 307 households; 92% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardnadoman East, Ardnadoman West, Caherhenryhoe, Cahertinny, Gortsheela, Monearmore, Raruddy West
- Placenames
- Cahernaman 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.