Caherdaly

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caherdaly, from 280 m² to 213,077 m² (21.31 ha, 52.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Caherdaly 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.

• 21 Nov 2024Conditional

  of existing mass concrete wall exceeding two metres in height and revised yard levels and ground levels

  Retention · Galway County Council, 24337

• 26 Jul 2023Refused

  of an existing agricultural entrance & associated works & the carrying out of alterations to the existing entrance to include the provision of a separate access to the existing dwellinghouse & agricultural lands & all associated works

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360842

• 23 May 2023N/a

  for the development consisting of the carrying out of alterations to the existing entrance to include the provision of a separate access to the existing dwelling house & agricultural lands and all associated works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2360540

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Ardrahan Grassland SAC 002244

Recorded monuments

• GA113-056 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In rock outcrop. Subcircular cashel (34m E-W; 30.4m N-S), in fair condition, defined by a collapsed drystone wall; evidence of stone-facing survives intermittently. Gaps at NE and SE are modern. An internal dividing wall runs N-S through the interior. The foundations of two house sites are visible to E of it: (a) to N (L 5.3m; Wth 4.8m) is free-standing, (b) to S (L 6m; Wth 4m) partially overlies the cashel wall; both are probably modern (SMR file). (McCaffrey 1952, 266, no. 14) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 11 January 2017 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 7/1983).

• GA113-057 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In grassland and rock outcrop. Very poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. c. 50m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall, which is overlain by a field wall from S to W. Only very slight traces are evident from W to N. A boreen cuts through the monument at N and S and no visible surface trace of the enclosing element survives to E of it. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 11 January 2017

• GA114-036 Souterrain
  Description

  On a N-facing slope in tillage. Named 'Cave' in Roman script on the 1839 edition of the OS 6-inch map. The Galway-Limerick railway line now overlies it and no visible trace of it survives. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 9 September 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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_762 (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 Caherdaly with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Caherdaly · Cathair Uí Dhálaigh

Area

841,628 m² (84.16 ha, 207.97 acres)

Civil parish

Ardrahan, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Castletaylor, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castletaylor electoral division: 693 people in 215 households; 82% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardrahan North, Ardrahan South, Caherateige, Cullenagh Beg, Cullenagh More, Rooaunmore, Rooghaun

Placenames

Caherdaly 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.