Cantogher

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cantogher, from 769 m² to 243,490 m² (24.35 ha, 60.17 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.

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.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 19 Jul 2018Conditional

  filling part of existing passage with crushed stone & inert building waste (1500 tonnes). A certificate of registration (COR) will be applied for the activity

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 18735

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 Cantogher.

Recorded monuments

• LI044-107 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  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

Architectural heritage

• Cantogher Cottage, house, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  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.

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 Cantogher, about 1 in 20 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Cantogher with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Cantogher · Ceann Tóchair

Area

608,288 m² (60.83 ha, 150.31 acres)

Civil parish

Killeedy, and its townlands

Barony

Glenquin

Electoral division

Ballintober, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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.

Neighbouring townlands

Gortnaclohy, Killeedy South

Placenames

Cantogher 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.