# Cantogher, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killeedy, barony of Glenquin, Co. Limerick; in Irish Ceann Tóchair. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 608,288 m² (60.83 ha, 150.31 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,107 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Killeedy, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/killeedy.md - Barony: Glenquin - Electoral division: Ballintober, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 386 people lived in 131 households in the Ballintober electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/31666 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 120566 - Centre: latitude 52.372554, longitude -9.05896 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cantogher, from 769 m² to 243,490 m² (24.35 ha, 60.17 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1616535: 243,490 m² (24.35 ha, 60.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1616535.md - Parcel 1640900: 139,138 m² (13.91 ha, 34.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1640900.md - Parcel 1642834: 86,571 m² (8.66 ha, 21.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1642834.md - Parcel 5415709: 73,103 m² (7.31 ha, 18.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5415709.md - Parcel 1628965: 28,369 m² (2.84 ha, 7.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1628965.md - Parcel 1638709: 13,665 m² (1.37 ha, 3.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1638709.md - Parcel 1622562: 4,811 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1622562.md - Parcel 1592269: 2,532 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1592269.md - Parcel 1593915: 2,520 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1593915.md - Parcel 1590674: 2,278 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1590674.md - Parcel 4878125: 1,935 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4878125.md - Parcel 1589983: 1,842 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1589983.md - Parcel 1596863: 1,490 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1596863.md - Parcel 1654653: 1,337 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1654653.md - Parcel 4878140: 1,303 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4878140.md - Parcel 3338478: 1,138 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3338478.md - Parcel 1612747: 1,037 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1612747.md - Parcel 1658031: 939 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1658031.md - Parcel 3338439: 807 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3338439.md - Parcel 1619779: 769 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1619779.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Cantogher 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) 1 application, newest first. - 19 Jul 2018, Limerick County Council 18735: Conditional. Permission. filling part of existing passage with crushed stone & inert building waste (1500 tonnes). A certificate of registration (COR) will be applied for the activity. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/18735/0 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 Cantogher. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI044-107: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI044-107----. In flat marshy pasture. Circular area (diam. 30m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.45m: ext. H 2.15m) with external fosse (D 1.6m; Wth 3m) SE->N, and with counterscarp earthen bank (ext. H 0.3m) SE->W and NW->NE. Enclosing element and parts of interior have been dug away N->SE. Most of enclosure is covered by scrub vegetation. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 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) - Cantogher Cottage, house, 1890–1910, Regional interest, registry number 21904405, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC®no=21904405. Detached three-bay single-storey house, built c. 1900, having two-bay return to rear (north-west) with later single-storey flat-roofed extension block to rear of return. Currently disused. Hipped artificial slate roof to main block with rendered chimneystacks and decorative carved timber bargeboards with drop finials. Pitched artificial slate roof to return with red-brick chimneystack and rooflights. Bitumen clad flat roof to later extension. Rendered walls throughout. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills to main block, having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed window openings with rendered sills to rear return and extension, having replacement timber casement windows. Pitched slate roofed canopies surmounting windows to front elevation, having decorative carved timber bargeboards with drop finials. Elliptical-headed door opening to front elevation within timber doorcase with unadorned architrave, timber panelled door with cast-iron door knocker and tooled limestone threshold, flanked by sidelights and surmounted by spoked fanlight. Pitched slate roofed timber canopy over doorway supported on carved timber brackets on tooled limestone corbels, having carved timber bargeboards with drop finials. Square-headed door opening to rear elevation of extension having timber battened door. Located within own grounds, having rendered enclosing wall attached to side (north-east) elevation of additional block with alternating triangular and pointed arch tooled limestone coping stones. Outbuildings with recent farmyard complex to north-west. Former avenue approach to north. ## 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 Cantogher, about 1 in 20 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 low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cantogher. - 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/cantogher.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/cantogher.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/cantogher.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Cantogher 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) - Gortnaclohy: https://everytownland.com/limerick/gortnaclohy.md - Killeedy South: https://everytownland.com/limerick/killeedy-south.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/cantogher - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/cantogher