Caher
Townland in the civil parish of Killiney, barony of Corkaguiny, Co. Kerry; in Irish An Chathair
- Area
- 44.3 ha
- 109 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 8,367 m² (0.84 ha, 2.07 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caher, from 17 m² to 109,754 m² (10.98 ha, 27.12 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Caher 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
15 Sept 2021Conditional
RETAIN MOBILE HOME ON SITE ON A TEMPORARY BASES AND PERMISSION TO (A) DEMOLISH THE EXISTING SINGLE STOREY DWELLING AND DECOMMISSION THE EXISTING WASTE WATER TREATMENT UNIT, (B) TO CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY DOMESTIC DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS, NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND TO INTALL A MECHANICAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT PUMPED UNIT, INTERMITTENT FILTER AND POLSIHING FILTER
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211052
2 Sept 2020N/a
(A) DEMOLISH THE EXISTING SINGLE STOREY DWELLING AND DECOMMISSION THE EXISTING WASTE WATER TREATMENT UNIT. (B) TO CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY DOMESTIC DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS, NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND TO INSTALL A MECHANICAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT PUMPED UNIT, INTERMITTENT FILTER AND POLISHING FILTER
Permission · Kerry County Council, 20791
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Tralee Bay and Magharees Peninsula, West to Cloghane SAC 002070
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Tralee Bay And Magharees Peninsula, West To Cloghane 002070
Recorded monuments
- KE036-007 Ringfort - cashel
Description
There is no visible trace of the circular cashel marked on the OS maps. It was located c. 300m from the seashore on the broad coastal plain that borders Tralee Bay. It was about 2 chains (c. 40m) in diameter and formed of large stones (OSNB Killiney, book 2, 6). There was reputedly a souterrain within the enclosure and 'large bones were found in it when removing the stones in 1832'. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 639. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 7 August 2013
- KE036-007001 Burial
Description
There is no visible trace of circular cashel KE036-007---- marked on the OS maps. There was reputedly a souterrain within the enclosure and 'large bones were found in it when removing the stones in 1832'. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 639. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 7 August 2013
- KE036-007002 Souterrain
Description
There is no visible trace of circular cashel KE036-007---- marked on the OS maps. There was reputedly a souterrain within the enclosure and 'large bones were found in it when removing the stones in 1832'. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 639. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 7 August 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Caher.
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, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Caher.
- 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 Caher with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Caher · An Chathair
- Area
- 442,536 m² (44.25 ha, 109.35 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killiney, and its townlands
- Barony
- Corkaguiny
- Electoral division
- Castlegregory, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Castlegregory electoral division: 1,041 people in 408 households; 77% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 30% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Castlegregory, Cloghaneanode, Cloghanesheskeen, Coolroe, Martramane, Tullaree
- Placenames
- Caher 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.