Caherulla
Townland in the civil parish of Ballyheige, barony of Clanmaurice, Co. Kerry; in Irish Cathair Ula
- Area
- 225.6 ha
- 558 acres
- Land parcels
- 42
- registered freehold, median 2,372 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caherulla, from 210 m² to 768,840 m² (76.88 ha, 189.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 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 Caherulla 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
18 Oct 2023Conditional
A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, ENTRANCE, DOMESTIC WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM COMPRISING SECONDARY AND TERTIARY TREATMENT, AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS.
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2360243
28 Sept 2023N/a
Invalid- A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, ENTRANCE, DOMESTIC WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM COMPRISING SECONDARY AND TERTIARY TREATMENT, AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS.
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2360194
6 May 2022Conditional
TO RETAIN PARTIALLY COMPLETED SINGLE STOREY SUN-ROOM EXTENSION OF WHICH THE RISING WALLS AND ROOF STRUCTURE ARE NOW CONSTRUCTED AND PLANNING PERMISSION TO COMPLETE THE CONSTRUCTION WHICH INCLUDES INSTALLING THE WINDOWS, COMPLETE RENDERING AND INTERNAL FITOUT. THIS SUNROOM IS ATTACHED TO THE REAR AND SIDE OF THE EXISTING SINGLE STOREY DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE WHICH HAD BEEN PREVIOUSLY EXTENDED TO THE REAR
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22473
30 Jan 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2068
4 Feb 2019Conditional
(A) RETENTION FOR A SEPARATE DOMESTIC STORAGE SHED (B) CREATE NEW ENTRANCE ADJACENT TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND (C) RETAIN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC STORAGE SHED WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 1997
3 Dec 2018N/a
(A) PLANNING RETENTION PERMISSION FOR SEPARATE DOMESTIC STORAGE SHED, (B) PLANNING PERMISSION TO CREATE NEW ENTRANCE ADJACENT TO EXISTING ENTRANCE TO SERVE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND (C) PLANNING PERMISSION TO RETAIN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC STORAGE SHED WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES, ALL LOCATED
Retention · Kerry County Council, 181186
9 Aug 2018Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF A MILKING PARLOUR/DAIRY/ASSEMBLY/DISPERSAL YARD; (2) CONSTRUCTION OF (A) A CALF HOUSE AND (B) A SLATTED CUBICLE HOUSE
Permission · Kerry County Council, 18783
27 Oct 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DORMER STYLE DWELLING SERVICED BY A PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SAND POLISHING FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 171080
26 Jul 2017Conditional
RETAIN AND COMPLETE EXISTING TWO STOREY DWELLING WITH ATTIC ACCOMMODATION AND FULL PERMISSION FOR A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION AT EITHER SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING, DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND REPLACE WITH NEW SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA , SET BACK EXISTING BOUNDARY AND REPLACE WITH A NEW BOUNDARY WALL AND TO REMOVE EXISTING SECOND ENTRANCE FROM SITE
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17727
9 Feb 2017Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF A MACHINERY HOUSE, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A DAIRY COMPLEX, INCLUDING EASY FEED SLATTED CUBICLE HOUSE WITH ASSOCIATED UNDERGROUND SLURRY TANKS, MILKING PARLOUR / DAIRY / PLANT ROOM, CATTLE HANDLING AREA AND STORE AND (3) WALLED SILAGE PIT AND APRON
Permission · Kerry County Council, 1798
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 Caherulla.
Recorded monuments
- KE014-022 Ringfort - rath
Description
Lisheennatraw/Lisín na Tráigh (little fort of the strand) is marked on the 1842 and 1916 OS maps as a circular enclosure. This site has been completely levelled and no surface trace remains. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 465. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013
- KE014-027 Ringfort - cashel
Description
Internal diameter 27m N-S, 24m E-W Situated immediately E of a small stream which is flowing S, this sub-circular univallate cahir is enclosed by an overgrown stone bank which rises to .7m internally and 1.6m externally. The U-shaped external fosse, which encloses most of the site, is c .7m wide and c .6m deep. The interior displays evidence of souterrains (KE014-027001-). In the N sector the remains of a chamber are visible. Leading out from this chamber is a U-shaped tunnel which curves S. Drystone walling is evident in both the chamber and tunnel. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 816. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013
- KE014-027001 Souterrain
Description
Situated immediately E of a small stream which is flowing S, sub-circular univallate cahir KE014-027---- is enclosed by an overgrown stone bank. In the N sector the remains of a chamber are visible. Leading out from this chamber is a U-shaped tunnel which curves S. Drystone walling is evident in both the chamber and tunnel. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 816. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013
- KE014-029 Ringfort - rath
Description
Marked on the 1842 OS map as a circular enclosure, it does not appear on the 1916 edition and no surface trace remains. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 466. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013
- KE014-030 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated NE of KE014-029----, this circular enclosure was marked on the 1842 OS map but not on the 1916 edition, and no visible trace survives today. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 467. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Caherulla.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, 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 Caherulla.
- 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
- Caherulla, Ballyheigue9 sales
The townland
- Name
- Caherulla · Cathair Ula
- Area
- 2,256,341 m² (225.63 ha, 557.55 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballyheige, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmaurice
- Electoral division
- Ballyheige, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballyheige electoral division: 1,446 people in 570 households; 79% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 21% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinclemesig, Ballinclemesig, Ballyronan, Booleenshare, Castleshannon, Cleanderry, Heirhill, Lisduff, Toanreagh
- Placenames
- Caherulla 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.