Cahernarry (Keane)

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cahernarry (Keane), from 180 m² to 248,967 m² (24.9 ha, 61.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Cahernarry (Keane) 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.

• 23 Apr 2025Conditional

  garage conversion, garage, rear extension and dual entrance

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2560351

• 20 Dec 2021Conditional

  the construction of a vehicular entrance, dwelling house, garage, domestic waste water treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211779

• 5 Mar 2020Refused

  the construction of a single storey dwelling, site entrance, site boundary, waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20193

• 16 Aug 2019Conditional

  alterations and extension to dwelling including all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 19818

• 5 Sept 2017Conditional

  the construction of an entrance, dwelling house, garage, domestic waste water treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17823

• 24 Aug 2017Conditional

  Extension of Permission From Ref No. 12/465 : the demolition of existing workshop/service garage and associated works and for the construction of new replacement workshop/service garage with associated site works and signage and Retention Permission for canopy to existing storage building

  Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 177043

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 Cahernarry (Keane).

Recorded monuments

• LI013-060 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Situated immediately N of a field boundary in undulating open pasture on a gentle NW-facing slope. The monument is heavily masked by dense vegetation cover. Some un-hewn limestone blocks are visible in a rough arc (Wth c. 1m) around a spring. Immediately NE of the spring is a depression (diam. c. 5m) known locally as 'the pond'. St Senan was the patron but by the mid 1950s 'there are no devotions' (Ó Danachair 1955, 202). See attached photos taken in 1954 by Caoimhín Ó Danachair, courtesy of and © National Folklore Collection, UCD. The Photographic Collection, F025.21.00425 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/17072; F025.21.00426 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/24507and F025.21.00427 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/24508. Compiled by: Denis Power Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 2 October 2020

• LI013-061 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on a height in rolling pasture. Indicated on the 1924 OS 6-inch map as a hachured oval feature (c. 40m NW-SE by 30m NE-SW), with the word 'obelisk'. The area has been quarried out; there is no visible surface trace of the monument.

• LI013-135 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on low-lying, undulating, poorly-drained pasture, immediately E of a tributary of the Groody River. Not marked on the OS 1924 OS 6-inch map but identified on an aerial photograph (OS 5, 2920, 7516) as a cropmark of a possible archaeological feature (SMR). The feature was not evident on the ground when the site was inspected. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 13 June 2013

• LI013-187 Mound
  Description

  Situated immediately E of a field boundary on high ground in rolling pasture. Sub-circular area (11.6m N-S; 5.3m E-W) defined by a gentle scarp (H 0.8m) to the N, S and E. Large blocks of limestone are visible through the sod.

• LI013-207 Barrow - mound barrow
  Description

  In rolling pasture immediately E of a field boundary. Present remains consist of a raised sub-circular shaped mound (dims. 11.6m N-S X 5.3m E-W; H 0.8m) with a gentle slope to N, S and E froming a platform in the centre. Limestone outcropping throughout. Earthwork is not visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 19/11/2019. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date upload: 29 June 2020

• LI013-208 Well
  Description

  In undulating pasture on gentle N facing 30m SE of Tobersenan holy well (LI013-060----). Present remains consist of a spring (Wth. 2.1m N-S x 1.4m E-W) immediately W of a modern pump house. Two limestone flags (L. 0.6m N-S, Wth. 0.5m) partially cover the spring to the N and S and the remainder is covered with a concrete slatted lid. N of the flags three limestones are arranged E-W. No evidence to suggest that this was a holy well. Probable natural spring well. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date upload: 29 June 2020

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1790, having shallow windbreak to front (south) elevation and recent three-bay single-storey extension to rear (north) elevation. Hipped thatched roof with red brick chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls having render plinth course. Square-headed openings with replacement uPVC windows and painted stone sills. Square-headed opening to windbreak having replacement half-glazed timber battened door. Pair of square-profile piers with single-leaf cast-iron gate to front and rendered boundary walls.

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 moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1023 (ZIP).

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 Cahernarry (Keane) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Cahernarry (Keane) · Carn Fhearaígh (Keane)

Area

1,048,158 m² (104.82 ha, 259.01 acres)

Civil parish

Cahernarry, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Ballysimon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballysimon electoral division: 16,540 people in 5,566 households; 59% of households own their home; 52% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cahernarry (Cripps), Coolyhenan, Drombanny, Tooreen

Placenames

Cahernarry (Keane) 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.