Caherclogh
Caherclogh is a townland in the civil parish of Corcomohide, barony of Connello Upper, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Cathair Chloch.
- Area
- 81.2 ha
- 201 acres
- Land parcels
- 8
- registered freehold, median 6,453 m² (0.65 ha, 1.59 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caherclogh, from 116 m² to 473,892 m² (47.39 ha, 117.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Caherclogh 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
30 Sept 2025Conditional
construction of: (i) slatted shed (ii) slatted tank and all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560994
18 Jan 2022Conditional
construction of an extension to existing cubicle house and all associated site work
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2245
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 Caherclogh.
Recorded monuments
- LI038-104 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope. Roughly circular area (diam. c. 30m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.65m; ext. H 0.9m). Running just outside bank S->E is field boundary. Interior and bank are covered for the most part by dense overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 325/30 on 05/10/2002.
- LI038-105 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope. Circular area (24.8m N-S) enclosed by eroded earthen bank (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.2m), which is truncated at N by E-W field boundary. Interior dips down gently towards centre and is overgrown by briars and deciduous trees. A noticeable scattering of stones around base of bank suggest it may have been stone faced. 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 Caherclogh.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Caherclogh, about 1 in 5 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 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 Caherclogh.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Caherclogh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Caherclogh · Cathair Chloch
- Area
- 812,419 m² (81.24 ha, 200.75 acres)
- Civil parish
- Corcomohide, and its townlands
- Barony
- Connello Upper
- Electoral division
- Castletown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 396 people lived in 138 households in the Castletown electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynoe, Castletown, Gortroe
- Placenames
- Caherclogh 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.