Caherline

62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caherline, from 74 m² to 158,242 m² (15.82 ha, 39.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Caherline 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.

• 14 May 2026N/a

  the oil spill store, overground bunded fuel tanks. The unauthorised works that are the subject of Enforcement Notice DC-228-22 and DC-212-23

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2660545

• 9 Dec 2025Refused

  the construction of a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2561302

• 8 Nov 2024N/a

  the construction of a new entrance by demolishing part of the existing roadside boundary stone wall and all ancillary site works. This development is within the curtilage of a Protected Structure

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2461105

• 23 Oct 2024Conditional

  the construction of an extension to the existing school consisting of: 1. an additional mainstream classroom, 2. a two-classroom special education needs unit with central activity space and associated rooms and circulation spaces, 3. alterations to the existing school building including the demolition of two toilets 4. new site entrance and boundary treatments, 5. new car park and set down area, 6. proprietary wastewater treatment system polishing filter, and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 24414

• 1 May 2024Refused

  the oil spill store, overground bunded fuel tanks within the revised site boundaries. The unauthorised works that are the subject of Enforcement Notice DC-228-22 and DC-212-23. Planning Permission for the Demolition of the existing service station and for the construction of a new service station which will include: New Entrance, Construction of a new forecourt canopy, A retail shop, A deli, coffee area and kitchen, Stores and freezer rooms, Service room, Manager and accounts offices, Meeting room, Customer and staff toilets, Staff canteen, Electric Vehicle charging points, Air and water service area, Carwash, Vehicle parking signage and all associated works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2460408

• 2 Dec 2021Conditional

  additions & alterations to existing private detached dwelling house, consisting of construction of single storey extension at ground floor level at the side of the house and all associated site works. Permission for retention is also sought for alterations to previously granted planning application ref. 00/1038 consisting of alterations to size and style of windows at southwest and northeast elevations, addition of door at northeast elevation, addition of rooflight to the southwest elevation, alterations to ground floor layout consisting of construction of an additional 10sqm to the original permission granted ref. 00/1038, and changes to approved wastewater treatment system consisting of the installation of a conventional septic tank system and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 211675

• 16 Jul 2021Conditional

  existing private storage shed and all associated site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 211021

• 22 Feb 2021Conditional

  the replacement of existing grass playing pitch with an all-weather playing pitch, erection of perimeter fencing, goal posts and ball stop netting including all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 21191

• 7 Jun 2019N/a

  the removal of existing roadside boundary ditch and construct a new roadside boundary wall and entrance, set back from the road edge to facilitate the extension of existing off road car parking including all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 19549

• 7 Feb 2019Conditional

  raising the level of existing agricultural lands including all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 1999

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Caherline.

Recorded monuments

• LI023-051 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In damp pasture. Circular area (16.5m NW-SE; 16m NE-SW) defined by scarped edge (Wth 2m; H 0.5m), with external fosse (Wth 6.05m; D 0.4m) W-SSW. Scarp and fosse poached by cattle SE-SSW. Faint trace of outer bank (Wth 4.25m; H 0.15m) SE-SSE. Interior has a gentle scarped edge (Wth 1.75m; H 0.2m) facing SW from SE to NW. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 15 November 2013

• LI023-168 Enclosure
  Description

  This is the record for a monument identified by The Discovery Programme, from medium-altitude aerial photographs taken in 1986 [see Doody, M. (2008) The Ballyhoura Hills Project, Discovery Programme Monograph No 7, Wordwell, pp 65-100]. The reference for this monument is LI023: Bruff 181: AP 4/3689.

• LI023-178 Enclosure
  Description

  This is the record for a monument identified by The Discovery Programme, from medium-altitude aerial photographs taken in 1986 [see Doody, M. (2008) The Ballyhoura Hills Project, Discovery Programme Monograph No 7, Wordwell, pp 65-100]. The reference for this monument is LI023: Bruff 179: AP 4/3689.

• LI023-180001 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  On low-lying wet pasture, shaped by flood waters and cut by land drains and watercourses. Ring-barrow (LI023-180002-) lies 45m to S. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a circular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 243: AP 4/3689). Monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 243. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 30 August 2020

• LI023-180002 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  On low-lying wet pasture, shaped by flood waters and cut by land drains and watercourses. Ring-barrow (LI023-180001-) lies 45m to N. Not depicted on OSI historic maps. Identified as a roughly oval-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 244: AP 4/3689). Monument is not visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-2013 or on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 244. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 30 August 2020

• LI023-182 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  On low-lying wet pasture, shaped by flood waters and cut by land drains and watercourses. Ring-barrows (LI023-181/255----) lie 170m to SW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a circular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey (Bruff 245: AP 4/3689). Monument is not visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-2013 or on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 245. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 2 September 2020

• LI023-253 Enclosure
  Description

  Identified from an aerial photograph (Bruff Survey: Map 23, Bruff 251: AP 4/3689) and described by Doody (2008, 132) as an 'oval ditched enclosure, c. 40m E-W x 30m N-S, with possible external bank'; the morphology of this enclosure indicates that it may be Bronze Age in date (ibid.). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 6 November 2013

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Caherline.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Caherline.

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.

No address of the register names Caherline with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Caherline · Cathair Fhlainn

Area

1,330,138 m² (133.01 ha, 328.68 acres)

Civil parish

Ballybrood, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Kilmurry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilmurry electoral division: 911 people in 304 households; 96% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybrood, Ballyhobin, Ballyvorneen, Doonvullen Lower, Doonvullen Upper, Gragane, Newtown, Rockfarm

Placenames

Caherline 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.