Caher (Connell)

137 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caher (Connell), from 50 m² to 268,595 m² (26.86 ha, 66.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Caher (Connell) 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.

• 27 Nov 2024Conditional

  the demolition of existing pump house at public roadway , demolition of part of shed at rear of cottage , to construct an extension to existing dwelling house , decommission existing septic tank , install a new wastewater treatment system , all with associated works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2461166

• 12 Mar 2024N/a

  the (1) demolition of shed (2) demolition of pump house (3) construction of an extension to an existing dwelling house (4) decommissioning of existing septic tank (5) installation of a new waste water treatment system (6) All associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460216

• 22 Feb 2024Conditional

  domestic garage and all ancillary works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2454

• 23 Jul 2021N/a

  construction of a single storey extension to existing dwelling house, construct a domestic garage, all connection to existing site services with all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 211049

• 14 Jun 2021Conditional

  demolition of existing external storage buildings, construction of a single storey extension to existing school comprising of a main stream classroom linked to existing school with connection to all existing services with all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 21841

• 20 May 2019N/a

  installation of an astroturf playing pitch in lieu of existing grass playing pitch with all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 19500

• 12 Mar 2018Conditional

  the change of site boundaries and site layout from that which was previously approved under planning application reference no. 01/2598

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 18233

• 23 Mar 2017Conditional

  construct a vehicular entrance to my dwellinghouse with all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17253

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165

Recorded monuments

• LI051-002 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In rough grazing, on a S-facing slope at the N edge of a marshy area. A low irregular-shaped mound (c. 11m E-W; 17m N-S) of burnt material, that is masked by a cover of dense vegetation overgrowth. The mound is truncated by a field boundary on its N side. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI051-003 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On S-facing slope immediately above dip into river valley. Roughly D-shaped area enclosed on straight W side by field boundary and defined N->S by scarped edge (H 0.55m). Uneven interior under grass, but no evidence for burial plots. According to local tradition last burial here in 1922 and previously was used as 'famine' burial ground. Not depicted on 1841 OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI051-005 Enclosure
  Description

  In rough marshy pasture, on S-facing slope falling directly to N bank of River Feale; enclosure bordered on E side by stream flowing towards river. Most of site is covered by dense overgrowth of briars and bracken but curving earthen bank (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.7m) can be traced ENE->SE where it becomes scarped edge SE->SW. Loose stones lie scattered along external bank face at ENE. Bank is denuded by cattle accessing stream. There appears to be a gentle rise upwards from enclosing element towards centre. No evidence for burial plots or markers evident though most of interior impenetrable. Depicted on 1841 OS 6-inch map as an oval enclosure (c. 40m E-W; c. 25m N-S) but enclosing element depicted only E->SW on 1924 OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Caher (Connell).

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Caher (Connell), about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Caher (Connell).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.

No address of the register names Caher (Connell) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Caher (Connell) · An Chathair (Connell)

Area

3,822,487 m² (382.25 ha, 944.56 acres)

Civil parish

Abbeyfeale, and its townlands

Barony

Glenquin

Electoral division

Caher, the unit of the census

Census 2022

400 people lived in 136 households in the Caher electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caher (Hayes), Caher (Lane), Carrigeen (Co. Kerry), Dromtrasna (Collins), Dromtrasna South, Inchinapoagh (Co. Kerry)

Placenames

Caher (Connell) 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.