Caherdague

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caherdague, from 4,102 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres) to 32,329 m² (3.23 ha, 7.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 5 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Caherdague 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.

• 13 Aug 2025Conditional

  to construct a two storey type dwelling house, new entrance, boundary walls, piers & fencing, proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2560173

• 22 Jul 2024N/a

  the development will consist of constructing a double domestic usage garage to house car and van together with onsite necessary ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2440

• 22 Jul 2024Refused

  of PL20/39: permission to construct one number detached two storey dwelling, one number detached single storey garage, to install a septic tank and specified percolation area, to install a private well, to create a new entrance onto public road and all associated site works

  Extension of duration · Longford County Council, 2441

• 22 Dec 2021Conditional

  the proposed construction of a bungalow type dwelling house with detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 21363

• 18 Feb 2020Conditional

  to construct one number detached two storey dwelling, one number detached single storey garage, to install a septic tank and specified percolation area, to install a private well, to create a new entrance onto public road and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2039

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 Caherdague.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Caherdague.

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Caherdague, about 1 in 10 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 low.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Caherdague.

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.

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

Name

Caherdague · Ceathar Déag

Area

165,600 m² (16.56 ha, 40.92 acres)

Civil parish

Street, and its townlands

Barony

Ardagh

Electoral division

Coolamber, the unit of the census

Census 2022

397 people lived in 131 households in the Coolamber electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballaghgowla and Froghan, Curry, Freaghmeen, Moatavally

Placenames

Caherdague 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.