Callahow
Callahow is a townland in the civil parish of Cloncrew, barony of Connello Upper, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Caladh Abha.
- Area
- 105.3 ha
- 260 acres
- Land parcels
- 25
- registered freehold, median 3,717 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Callahow, from 177 m² to 261,032 m² (26.1 ha, 64.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Callahow 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
29 Jan 2020Conditional
the conversion of existing farm sheds into slatted shed, straw bedded area, feeding passages, cattle handling unit and concrete apron
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2061
7 Mar 2017Conditional
construct an extension to front elevation of existing dwelling house, carry out alterations to existing floor layout to incorporate proposed extension and carry out all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17204
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 Callahow.
Recorded monuments
- LI045-060 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on W-facing slope. Circular area (diam. c. 34m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.25m) with an external fosse (D 0.7m; Wth 2.4m); enclosing element covered in overgrowth. Causeway entrance (Wth 2.4m) at W, much eroded by cattle accessing interior. Fosse deepened as field drain NNW->SSW. Interior surface is noticeably uneven, and under pasture. 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 Callahow.
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
- 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 low, low, low (inferred).
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Callahow.
- 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 Callahow with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Callahow · Caladh Abha
- Area
- 1,053,009 m² (105.3 ha, 260.2 acres)
- Civil parish
- Cloncrew, and its townlands
- Barony
- Connello Upper
- Electoral division
- Dromcolliher, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 928 people lived in 374 households in the Dromcolliher electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ahadagh, Ahaveheen, Cloonlara, Mundellihy, Sheshiv, Tulligmacthomas
- Placenames
- Callahow 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.