# Cahernamuck West, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Kilconickny, barony of Loughrea, Co. Galway; in Irish Cathair na Muc Thiar.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 470,064 m² (47.01 ha, 116.16 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,575 m²
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010
- Civil parish: Kilconickny, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/kilconickny.md
- Barony: Loughrea
- Electoral division: Lackalea, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 425 people lived in 119 households in the Lackalea electoral division. 97% of households owned their home. 56% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/20108
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 60779
- Centre: latitude 53.230594, longitude -8.59115 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cahernamuck West, from 15 m² to 231,430 m² (23.14 ha, 57.19 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1944797: 231,430 m² (23.14 ha, 57.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1944797.md
- Parcel 1944796: 84,924 m² (8.49 ha, 20.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1944796.md
- Parcel 2007109: 67,762 m² (6.78 ha, 16.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2007109.md
- Parcel 4660161: 16,989 m² (1.7 ha, 4.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4660161.md
- Parcel 5232916: 10,993 m² (1.1 ha, 2.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5232916.md
- Parcel 5233588: 10,560 m² (1.06 ha, 2.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5233588.md
- Parcel 5102124: 6,657 m² (0.67 ha, 1.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5102124.md
- Parcel 4995898: 6,575 m² (0.66 ha, 1.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4995898.md
- Parcel 5232893: 6,494 m² (0.65 ha, 1.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5232893.md
- Parcel 1944798: 4,904 m² (0.49 ha, 1.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1944798.md
- Parcel 5232900: 4,837 m² (0.48 ha, 1.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5232900.md
- Parcel 2007107: 3,386 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2007107.md
- Parcel 5361857: 3,319 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5361857.md
- Parcel 2007108: 2,986 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2007108.md
- Parcel 5361892: 1,575 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5361892.md
- Parcel 2007106: 1,507 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2007106.md
- Parcel 5233564: 1,148 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5233564.md
- Parcel 2007105: 1,026 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2007105.md
- Parcel 5232892: 810 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5232892.md
- Parcel 5233542: 778 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5233542.md
- Parcel 5232923: 706 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5232923.md
- Parcel 4827970: 440 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4827970.md
- Parcel 5872311: 371 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5872311.md
- Parcel 5233545: 370 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5233545.md
- Parcel 5276167: 277 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5276167.md
- Parcel 5232930: 255 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5232930.md
- Parcel 4457705: 43 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4457705.md
- Parcel 5232946: 16 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5232946.md
- Parcel 5233587: 15 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5233587.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Cahernamuck West 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)

1 application, newest first.

- 2 Jun 2017, Galway County Council 17792: Refused. Permission. for development consisting of a solar PV farm to export electricity to the national grid. The solar panel array will consist of up to approximately 27602 square metres of solar photovoltaic panels on ground mounted frames, 1 number electrical control building, 2 number inverter cabins, temporary construction area and ancillary facilities, boundary security fence, use of a current site entrance, creation of an additional site entrance, access track, CCTV security system, and all associated works. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 94.9 sqm.). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/17792/0

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## 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 Cahernamuck West.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- GA097-049: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA097-049----. In undulating grassland. This well-preserved bivallate cashel (int. dims. 42m N-S; 32m E-W) is defined by two drystone walls with a very wide intervening shallow fosse. The inner wall consists of a grassed-over stony mound (original Wth 3.7m; int. H c. 1m; ext. H 2m). One course of inner and outer facing-stones (H 0.25m), consisting of large squared-off limestone blocks, is visible all round and is most clear at N. The wall has slipped a lot both internally and externally making it very wide (max. 10m). No trace of an entrance is evident. The fosse (Wth 6-8m) is visible from SW through N to SE. It is densely overgrown with thistle, nettle and fern growth and a number of dead tree stumps are visible. No causeway is visible. The outer wall also consists of a grassed-over stony mound (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.5m). It survives from SW through N to E and a later field wall has been built on top of it. The interior is very uneven and densely overgrown with nettles. Some low grassed-over collapsed stone banks may indicate the remains of internal divisions or structures. A collapsed souterrain (GA097-049001-) lies in the N sector. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 10 May 2021
- GA097-049001: Souterrain, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA097-049001-. Within the N sector of a cashel (GA097-049----). This souterrain (L >13.5m) has collapsed and consists of two rectangular stone-filled depressions. That to E runs NNE-SSW (L 4m; Wth 1.8m). The other lies some 7m to WNW of its SW end. It runs NNW-SSE (L 2.5m). A number of displaced roof-lintels are visible in both depressions. The souterrain appears to have been L-shaped in plan though no visible surface trace of it survives between the junction of the two depressions. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 January 2017
- GA097-050: Designed landscape - tree-ring, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA097-050----. The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- GA097-051: Castle - tower house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA097-051----. In rough patureland and located in the SE corner of a moated site (GA097-051001-). In existence in 1574 when it was in the possession of 'Walter Burke' (Nolan 1901, 112). When initially inspected in August 1984, this poorly preserved rectangular tower house (L 9.1m, Wth >8.5m), which was at least four storeys high originally, had a small almost square projecting turret (L 4.6m, Wth 4m) at its NE corner. The tower had a gentle base-batter and was constructed of roughly cut coursed limestone blocks; a plinth was visible on the N side. The lower portions of the E and S walls (Wth 1.6m, H 3.5m max.), and the S half of the W wall (H 3m) survived. The N half of the W wall and the line of N wall were indicated by grassed-over stony mounds. No architectural features were visible and the interior was rubble-filled. Substantial portions of the turret, partially mantled in ivy, survived. These included the E and S walls along with adjoining parts of the N wall (Wth 0.85-1.1m), all of which survived to a height of four storeys. Each of the three surviving corners was chamfered. Stone vaults existed between ground/1st and 2nd/3rd floors and there was a possible connecting doorway to tower on the 1st floor. Slit windows were centrally placed in the N and E walls on the ground floor: the former had a gun-loop expansion at its mid-point. There were also slit windows on 1st and 2nd floors in the N wall and on 1st floor in the S wall. In October 1991, following the use of explosives, the turret was reduced to a mound of rubble. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 31 August 2018 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 5/1991).
- GA097-051001: Moated site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA097-051001-. In pastureland, c. 40m to the NE of the St Cleran’s River. This rectangular moated site (34m E-W; 25.5m N-S), in fair condition, is defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. A shallow fosse at the NW corner, which runs W via a breach in the outer bank, is possibly a leat. A tower house (GA097-051----) overlies the enclosing elements at SE. A collapsed stone wall running along the inner bank may be the remains of a bawn wall (GA097-051002-). Within the interior a possible house site (GA097-051003-) is visible in the NE corner. A later small rectangular field, which is defined by stone wall that runs along the W and N sides of the inner bank, is planted with trees. A possible N-S running internal division, defined by a low bank, extends off the inner banks at S. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 2 December 2019 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 5/1991).
- GA097-051002: Bawn, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA097-051002-. The inner bank of a moated site (GA097-051001-) is composed mainly of earth but it is topped with a stone wall that may be the remains of a bawn wall associated with the tower house (GA097-051----), which overlies its SE corner. Wall revetment is visible intermittently on both faces of the bank and is best preserved along the S side where a continuous stretch is visible for a length of 11m. Here the wall (Wth 1.3m; H 0.3m) is constructed of large blocks of limestone inner and outer facing stones and a rubble core. A later field wall runs along the N two-thirds of the W bank and the W end of the N bank. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 2 December 2019 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 5/1991).
- GA097-051003: House - indeterminate date, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA097-051003-. A possible rectangular house (6.2m N-S; 4.2m E-W) is visible in the NE corner of the bawn (GA097-051001-). The remains of a tower house (GA097-051----) are visible in the SE corner. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 2 December 2019 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 5/1991).
- GA097-051004: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA097-051004-. Possibly associated with a moated site (GA097-051001-). A small rectangular enclosure (6m N-S; 3.5m E-W) defined by a low earthen bank is built against the NW corner of the outer bank of the moated site. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 2 December 2019 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 5/1991).
- GA097-173: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA097-173----. In pastureland. This roughly subrectangular enclosure (c. 41m NW-SE; c. 40m NE-SW) was brought to the attention of the Survey by Jean-Charles Caillère who identified it on Google Earth satellite imagery dated March 2011. A field boundary overlies the enclosing element from NW to NNE. Subsequent aerial imagery suggests that the monument is levelled. Another enclosure (GA097-174----) lies c. 530m to the ENE and a cashel (GA097-049----) lies c. 255m to the SE. The following image has been uploaded: GA097-173----_01.jpg Google Earth, imagery dated 16 March 2011. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 12 May 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)

- Lynchfort House, house, 1760–1800, Regional interest, registry number 30409718, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=GA&regno=30409718. Detached three-bay two-storey over basement house, built c.1780, having lower projecting stairs return. Hipped slate roof with centrally placed pair of rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls. Square-headed replacement windows to rear elevation, round-headed to to stairs window. Front elevation not visible. Extensive grounds accessed by gateway comprising square-plan dressed limestone piers with caps and decorative double-leaf wrought-iron vehicular gate, with rubble limestone boundary walls.

## 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 Cahernamuck West, about 1 in 10 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 Cahernamuck West.
- 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/cahernamuck-west.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/cahernamuck-west.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/cahernamuck-west.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Cahernamuck West 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)

- Ballybaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballybaun-60264.md
- Cahernamona: https://everytownland.com/galway/cahernamona.md
- Cahernamuck East: https://everytownland.com/galway/cahernamuck-east.md
- Raruddy East: https://everytownland.com/galway/raruddy-east.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.

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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/cahernamuck-west
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/cahernamuck-west