Caher
Townland in the civil parish of Aghamore, barony of Costello, Co. Mayo; in Irish An Chathair
- Area
- 230.6 ha
- 570 acres
- Land parcels
- 154
- registered freehold, median 6,938 m² (0.69 ha, 1.71 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
154 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caher, from 20 m² to 73,715 m² (7.37 ha, 18.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 59 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Caher 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
1 Sept 2026N/a
demolition of a detached existing boiler, utility & wc and an open canopy area, construction of a new single storey extension and retention permission of an existing single storey dining room extension to an existing dwelling house and all ancillary works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 26208
3 Jul 2026N/a
Planning Permission to construct dwelling house and foul effluent treatment system all as per drawing documentation submitted together with all ancillary site works and services.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660534
10 Jul 2025Conditional
full planning permission to construct a dwelling house and a garage with treatment plant and percolation area
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560460
29 Jul 2022Conditional
RETAIN AND COMPLETE DWELLING HOUSE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER P12/227 AND PERMISSION TO RELOCATE EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM ALL AS PER DRAWING DOCUMENTATION SUBMITTED TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22642
28 May 2021Conditional
RETENTION OF REFURBISHMENTS, REAR EXTENSION AND SITE LAYOUT TO INCLUDE RETENTION PERMISSION FOR THE ON-SITE EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 21558
16 Aug 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA. ALSO TO CREATE A NEW ENTRANCE AND TO MAKE ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING ACCESS ROAD, TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 18630
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
- Special Area of Conservation: River Moy SAC 002298
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Caher.
Architectural heritage
- Bridge, 1840–1895 · Regional interest
Description
Three-arch road bridge over river, extant 1895. Coursed cut-limestone walls centred on tooled limestone ashlar triangular cutwaters to piers on shuttered concrete battered bases with lichen-covered rock faced cut-limestone coping to parapets. Series of three segmental arches with tooled limestone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning Glore River with unkempt banks to river.
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 10 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Caher.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Caher with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Caher · An Chathair
- Area
- 2,305,959 m² (230.6 ha, 569.81 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aghamore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Costello
- Electoral division
- Kilkelly, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilkelly electoral division: 961 people in 382 households; 82% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 21% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Canbrack, Cloonnahulty, Derryclaha, Derrygay, Derrynaned, Derryool, Devleash, Doogary, Lismaganshion, Lismeegaun, Lurgan
- Placenames
- Caher 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.