Cahergal

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cahergal, from 18 m² to 98,041 m² (9.8 ha, 24.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Cahergal 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.

• 16 Apr 2026Conditional

  for change of use of private dwellinghouse to Bed and Breakfast use, permission for retention of upgraded sewage treatment plant and percolation area, and permission to extend the percolation area

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660577

• 29 Aug 2025Refused

  for extension, connecting existing out building to dwelling house, and converting it to living space, and replacing existing septic tank with treatment plant and percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561212

• 7 Jan 2022Conditional

  for the side boundary wall to the front garden of dwelling house.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 229

• 17 Dec 2021Conditional

  to construct a dormer style detached dwelling house, sewage treatment system and domestic shed and associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 22 sqm incl garage

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212400

• 17 Dec 2020Conditional

  for development consisting of (1) Existing Dwelling & Domestic Garage / Garden Store on revised site boundaries to that approved under Pl. Ref. No. 16/917and (3) all associated site works and services. Gross floor space of work to be retained: House: 208.5 sqm, Garage: 60 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201952

• 10 Feb 2020N/a

  consisting of (1) permission to construct a domestic garage / garden store (2) extension to existing site boundaries approved under Pl. Ref. No. 16/917 and (3) all associated site works and services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 60 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 20150

• 24 May 2019Conditional

  of domestic shed. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 67 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 19797

• 8 May 2019N/a

  for development consisting of (1) Permission to construct a single and two storey extension to the side of existing dwelling house. (2) Extension to existing site boundaries approved under Pl. Ref. No. 16/917 and (3) All associated site works and services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 145 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 19686

• 29 Aug 2018Conditional

  for domestic carport extension to garage. Gross floor space for work to be retained, 48.76sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181224

• 19 Dec 2017Conditional

  of domestic shed. Gross floor space of work to be retained 67sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171827

• 29 Jun 2017Conditional

  to construct a two storey extension to side and rear of existing dwelling and make alterations to front porch along with replacing existing septic tank and constructing a new wastewater treatment system (gross floor space proposed158sqm)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17962

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 Cahergal.

Recorded monuments

• GA104-078 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a rise in undulating pastureland. A poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 24.4m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall that is overlain by a later field wall from E through S to W. McCaffrey (1952, 219, no. 77) noted an entrance gap (Wth c. 2.4m) at N, and four internal enclosures (average dims. 8m x 6m), defined by earth and stone banks, which abutted the cashel wall-face at NE, SE and two at W. Those at W are the remains of a house (GA104-078001-) but no visible surface traces of the others survive. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 12 January 2017

• GA104-078001 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Within the interior of a cashel, abutting the wall-face at W. Noted by McCaffrey (1952, 219, no. 77), this rectangular house (5.5m E-W; 4m N-S) is defined by a grassed-over wall. Internal facing stones survive and at W the cashel wall delimits the house. A possible internal division is evident. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 12 January 2017

• GA104-079 Memorial stone (present location)
  Description

  Incorporated into the side-wall of an old house now used as a cowshed, at 1st floor level, this inscribed weathered slab (H 0.22m; Wth 0.43m) bears an illegible inscription. Only the following letters could be made out: -ND-EW--- MN--O-N M-T-M-I The stone may have come from an unlocated castle - see GA104-287----. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 17 February 2023

Architectural heritage

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

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 Cahergal, about 1 in 5 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 Cahergal.

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.

• Cahergal, Craughwell6 sales

Name

Cahergal · An Chathair Gheal

Area

336,932 m² (33.69 ha, 83.26 acres)

Civil parish

Killogilleen, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Killogilleen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

981 people lived in 308 households in the Killogilleen electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 57% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballylin East, Ballymanagh, Ballynascragh, Brucken, Carheen, Killogilleen, Seefin

Placenames

Cahergal 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.