# Cahernarry (Keane), Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Cahernarry, barony of Clanwilliam, Co. Limerick; in Irish Carn Fhearaígh (Keane). - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,048,158 m² (104.82 ha, 259.01 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,487 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Cahernarry, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/cahernarry.md - Barony: Clanwilliam - Electoral division: Ballysimon, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 16,540 people lived in 5,566 households in the Ballysimon electoral division. 59% of households owned their home. 52% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/31205 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 120555 - Centre: latitude 52.62452, longitude -8.557264 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cahernarry (Keane), from 180 m² to 248,967 m² (24.9 ha, 61.52 acres); 23 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5406614: 248,967 m² (24.9 ha, 61.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5406614.md - Parcel 1643237: 183,935 m² (18.39 ha, 45.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1643237.md - Parcel 1603883: 140,271 m² (14.03 ha, 34.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1603883.md - Parcel 1647858: 75,513 m² (7.55 ha, 18.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1647858.md - Parcel 1612717: 74,108 m² (7.41 ha, 18.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1612717.md - Parcel 1623668: 73,604 m² (7.36 ha, 18.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1623668.md - Parcel 1645467: 56,018 m² (5.6 ha, 13.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1645467.md - Parcel 1657890: 55,904 m² (5.59 ha, 13.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1657890.md - Parcel 1616299: 35,893 m² (3.59 ha, 8.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1616299.md - Parcel 3623078: 16,401 m² (1.64 ha, 4.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3623078.md - Parcel 1623675: 15,170 m² (1.52 ha, 3.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1623675.md - Parcel 1590217: 6,911 m² (0.69 ha, 1.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1590217.md - Parcel 1609797: 4,384 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1609797.md - Parcel 1667917: 4,355 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1667917.md - Parcel 1589810: 3,910 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1589810.md - Parcel 4121352: 3,423 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4121352.md - Parcel 3842593: 3,242 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3842593.md - Parcel 1666521: 2,923 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1666521.md - Parcel 1656851: 2,662 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1656851.md - Parcel 1644127: 2,635 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1644127.md - Parcel 1638791: 2,502 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1638791.md - Parcel 5501110: 2,473 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5501110.md - Parcel 2441309: 2,412 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2441309.md - Parcel 1630162: 2,407 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1630162.md - Parcel 1617432: 2,286 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1617432.md - Parcel 5315563: 2,263 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5315563.md - Parcel 1607057: 2,256 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1607057.md - Parcel 1626838: 2,228 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1626838.md - Parcel 4963811: 2,210 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4963811.md - Parcel 5008203: 2,191 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5008203.md - Parcel 1608469: 2,139 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1608469.md - Parcel 1593958: 2,107 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1593958.md - Parcel 3266750: 2,100 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3266750.md - Parcel 1630161: 2,062 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1630161.md - Parcel 1638122: 1,959 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1638122.md - Parcel 1600029: 1,869 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1600029.md - Parcel 1602028: 1,690 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1602028.md - Parcel 1663075: 1,353 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1663075.md - Parcel 1597795: 1,291 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1597795.md - Parcel 1655802: 741 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1655802.md - Parcel 1610115: 528 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1610115.md - Parcel 3266749: 180 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3266749.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 6 applications, newest first. - 23 Apr 2025, Limerick County Council 2560351: Conditional. Retention. garage conversion, garage, rear extension and dual entrance. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560351/0 - 20 Dec 2021, Limerick County Council 211779: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a vehicular entrance, dwelling house, garage, domestic waste water treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/211779/0 - 5 Mar 2020, Limerick County Council 20193: Refused. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a single storey dwelling, site entrance, site boundary, waste water treatment system and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/20193/0 - 16 Aug 2019, Limerick County Council 19818: Conditional. Permission. alterations and extension to dwelling including all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/19818/0 - 5 Sept 2017, Limerick County Council 17823: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the construction of an entrance, dwelling house, garage, domestic waste water treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/17823/0 - 24 Aug 2017, Limerick County Council 177043: Conditional. Extension of duration. 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. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/177043/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cahernarry (Keane). ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI013-060: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI013-060----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI013-061----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI013-135----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI013-187----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI013-207----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI013-208----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - House, 1780–1800, Regional interest, registry number 21901403, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC®no=21901403. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Cahernarry (Keane), about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1023, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1023.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/limerick/cahernarry-keane.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/cahernarry-keane.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/cahernarry-keane.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/limerick.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Cahernarry (Cripps): https://everytownland.com/limerick/cahernarry-cripps.md - Coolyhenan: https://everytownland.com/limerick/coolyhenan.md - Drombanny: https://everytownland.com/limerick/drombanny.md - Tooreen: https://everytownland.com/limerick/tooreen-121900.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/limerick/cahernarry-keane - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/cahernarry-keane