Caherconreafy
Caherconreafy is a townland in the civil parish of Aglishcormick, barony of Clanwilliam, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Cathair Chon Riaibhche.
Parcel 1674635
- Area
- 2,301 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 131 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Caherconreafy
Planning applications on this parcel
30 Jul 2026N/a
the as-built extension to the rear of existing dwelling house and Planning Permission is being sought for installation of a new improved domestic waste water treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 2660869
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.
- LI023-061 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on a SW-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 20m) enclosed by earthen bank (Wth 4.8m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.75m), with external fosse (Wth 5.95m; D 0.3m) that is best preserved N-E; possible causeway entrance (Wth 3m) at SW. Interior poached by cattle in W-sector where it has been fenced off with electric wire to form passage. Interior is level. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 18 November 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 25.3 ha
- 63 acres
- Land parcels
- 19
- registered freehold, median 2,167 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caherconreafy, from 404 m² to 123,956 m² (12.4 ha, 30.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Caherconreafy 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
30 Jul 2026N/a
the as-built extension to the rear of existing dwelling house and Planning Permission is being sought for installation of a new improved domestic waste water treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 2660869
3 Jul 2024Conditional
the construction of a single storey dwelling house, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, garage, site entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2460672
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 Caherconreafy.
Recorded monuments
- LI023-059 Moated site
Description
In pasture, on a SW-facing slope. Rectangular area (18m NNW-SSE; 30m ENE-WSW) defined by scarped edge (Wth 2.0; H 0.2-0.7m) with external fosse (max. Wth 7.25m; max. Dth 0.35m). Possible causeway entrance (Wth 6m) at N. Interior has a distinct S-facing slope. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 18 November 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Caherconreafy.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Caherconreafy, 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Caherconreafy.
- 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 Caherconreafy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Caherconreafy · Cathair Chon Riaibhche
- Area
- 253,043 m² (25.3 ha, 62.53 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aglishcormick, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanwilliam
- Electoral division
- Kilmurry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 911 people lived in 304 households in the Kilmurry electoral division. 96% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardroe, Baskethill, Cloverfield, Garrynagoord, Longstone
- Placenames
- Caherconreafy 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.