Caheratrim

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caheratrim, from 112 m² to 186,078 m² (18.61 ha, 45.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Caheratrim 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.

• 8 Sept 2025Unconditional

  of pl. ref 201528 to construct a dwelling house, garage, carport and wastewater treatment system

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 25228

• 15 Oct 2020Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, garage, carport and wastewater treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed works: 234.4 sqm (house), 56 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201528

• 7 May 2020Conditional

  of (1) an attic conversion and elevation alterations to dwelling house and (2) to construct a domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works: 41.9 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 82.35 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20567

• 13 Mar 2019Conditional

  for a dwelling house, proprietary effluent treatment system, percolation area, entrance and associated works on revised site boundaries (previously granted under Planning Ref 02/4095) and permission to replace the percolation area with a soil polishing filter. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 344.77 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19351

• 15 Mar 2018Conditional

  to construct a slatted livestock shed with creep area ancillary to existing farmyard. Gross floor space of proposed works 209.4 sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 18310

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 Caheratrim.

Recorded monuments

• GA114-033 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a rise in otherwise level pastureland. Poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 26.8m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall; no visible surface trace survives at E. A field wall overlies the enclosing element from W to N. There is a souterrain (GA114-033001-) in the NW quadrant of the interior. (McCaffrey 1952, 281, no. 53) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 9 January 2017

• GA114-033001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within the NW quadrant of a cashel (GA114-033----). This blocked-up souterrain, running NNW-SSE, is indicated by three exposed roof lintels. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 9 January 2017

• GA114-034 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In flat pastureland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a SE half of a roughly circular enclosure (c. 22m NE-SW) which was cut by a NW-SE running field boundary; no trace is shown to the NW of the boundary. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 19 July 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_835 (ZIP).

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.

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

Name

Caheratrim · Cathair an Troim

Area

1,009,815 m² (100.98 ha, 249.53 acres)

Civil parish

Ardrahan, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Skehanagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Skehanagh electoral division: 536 people in 185 households; 86% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymariscal, Cockstown West, Cregaclare Demesne, Kinmona North, Lackan, Moneen West, Rathanlon, Rathbaun, Tullira

Placenames

Caheratrim 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.