Caherlevoy

194 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caherlevoy, from 43 m² to 322,219 m² (32.22 ha, 79.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 48 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Caherlevoy 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.

• 22 Jun 2026Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, driveway, packaged wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660697

• 4 Nov 2024Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling house, garage, entrance, driveway, packaged wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2461088

• 27 Sept 2022Conditional

  the construction of a single storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, front boundary entrance walls, installation of mechanical aeration unit with polishing filter system along with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 221051

• 27 Sept 2022Conditional

  the construction of a single storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, front boundary entrance walls, installation of mechanical aeration unit with polishing filter system along with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 221052

• 10 May 2019Conditional

  existing extension to existing cottage with all associated site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 19470

• 29 May 2018Conditional

  a slatted cattle shed

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 18525

• 16 Apr 2018Conditional

  construction of a single storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, front boundary entrance walls with a mechanical aeration unit and soil polishing filter system with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 18367

• 16 Nov 2017Conditional

  construction of a storey and a half style dwelling, detached garage, mechanical aeration unit, soil polishing filter, site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 171056

• 22 Aug 2017N/a

  the construction of a two storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, front boundary entrance walls with a mechanical aeration unit and soil polishing filter system with all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 17788

• 1 Aug 2017Conditional

  construction of a slatted unit with underground effluent storage tanks and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 17735

• 2 Mar 2017N/a

  to construct a two storey dwelling , detached garage, mechanical aeration unit, soil polishing filter, site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 17191

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
• Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161

Recorded monuments

• LI052-006 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In marshy pasture, on a W-facing slope immediately NW of a spring well. A kidney-shaped mound (H 0.2m; 16m N-S; 16.5m E-W) of burnt material. According to local information most of the mound material was used to make a farm passage in the 1950s. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI052-007 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, atop low hill; ground slopes down steeply from S edge of enclosure to Caher River c. 50m to S. Arc of dry-stone wall runs NNE->ENE (H 0.8m; T 0.5m) atop a low broad earthen bank (H c. 0.25m; Wth 2.8m). There is gap (Wth c. 12m) ENE->ESE, before wall resumes ESE->SE again atop low broad earthen bank (H c. 0.4m; Wth c. 5m). Bank fades out at SE but wall continues to SSE where it turns directly S and runs to river bank. No evident trace of enclosing element SSE->NNE though approximate line of enclosing element marked by sharp break in slope SSE->WNW. Enclosed area is roughly circular (diam. 50m SSE-NNE. Interior, under pasture, slopes down gently to S. Farm passage skirts site SSE->WNW. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI052-008 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  No visible surface trace of site described by Ó Danachair (1955, 211) as 'a small well in a little grove of whitethorn ... where rounds are still made, especially in may'. It was dedicated to St Ita (ibid.). Well was at side of public road but there is now no indication of its precise location. See attached photos taken in 1954 by Caoimhín Ó Danachair, courtesy of and © National Folklore Collection, UCD. The Photographic Collection, F025.21.00477 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/30989 and F025.21.00476 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/17082. Compiled by: Denis Power Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 2 October 2020

• LI052-010 Kiln - lime
  Description

  In rough pasture, on S-facing slope. Only N half of stone-lined funnel (diam. 1.4m; H c. 2.6m) survives of kiln structure which is otherwise reduced to rubble mounds. Earthen ramp (8.2m N-S; 7.5m E-W) survives to rear. 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 Caherlevoy.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, 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 Caherlevoy.

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.

• Caherlevoy, Mountcollins8 sales

Name

Caherlevoy · Cathair Leathmhaol

Area

6,941,766 m² (694.18 ha, 1,715.35 acres)

Civil parish

Killeedy, and its townlands

Barony

Glenquin

Electoral division

Mountcollins, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Mountcollins electoral division: 492 people in 220 households; 79% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Glengort South, Knockcoolkeare, Mountcollins, Reanagillee Commons, Seeconglas

Placenames

Caherlevoy 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.