Caherkinmonwee

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caherkinmonwee, from 52 m² to 97,227 m² (9.72 ha, 24.03 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Caherkinmonwee 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Caherkinmonwee in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Caherkinmonwee.

Recorded monuments

• GA096-039 Castle - tower house
  Description

  In pastureland c. 60m to the NW of a tributary of the Craughwell River and surrounded by a small cluster of farm buildings. In existence in 1574 when 'Caherkynvoncoy' was in the possession of 'Moyler McShane Oge' (Nolan 1901, 121). The tower house underwent a programme of conservation and restoration subsequent to 1996 and is now a private residence (SMR file). The following report is based on an inspection undertaken in 1993 when the structure was well-preserved but in a ruinous condition (SMR file). It consists of a five-storey tower house (10.5m NE-SW; 8.7m NW-SE) constructed of roughly coursed limestone boulders and flagstones with a gentle base-batter. There were well-dressed quoins around the pointed arch entrance doorway, in the NE wall, and around the windows. The entrance doorway led into a small lobby off which there was the guardroom to the S and the spiral stairs to the N. A slit window in the NE wall of the guardroom was blocked up. Directly opposite the main entrance another doorway lead to the ground-floor chamber. It was full of straw bales and was inaccessible. All the wall faces of this chamber had been plastered. The first and second floors of the tower were divided into a main chamber with a subsidiary chamber to the NE, over the doorway. Projecting corbels in the NW and SE walls of the main chambers on the ground and first floors, and in the NE and SW walls of the first-floor subsidiary chamber indicated the floor levels. The floor of the main chamber on the first floor had been robbed out and was replaced with galvanised sheeting, which had partially collapsed. There were vaulted stone arches with traces of wickerwork centring over the chambers on the second floor. The third floor consisted of one large room. The fourth floor was unroofed but traces of a gable were evident on the NE wall. Access was not possible to the battlements but a line of well-inclined gutter-stones was visible along each wall face. Projecting machicolations survived at the top corner of each wall and there was also one in the NE wall above the doorway. There were intramural passages in the SE walls of the main chambers on the first and second floors and in the chamber on the third floor. These led to garderobes in the S end of the SW walls and the garderobe exit chute was visible in the base-batter on the SW wall. There was also an intramural passage in the SW wall on the third floor but it was almost completely blocked up. It was accessed from the N end of this wall. A robbed-out fireplace was evident on the third floor in the NW wall and a chimney rose above this wall on the fourth floor. Windows included simple slits in the NE and NW walls of the subsidiary chambers on the first and second floors. Those in the main chambers included ogee-headed windows with decorated spandrals in the NW and SW walls on the first and second floors; square windows (with central mullions missing) in the NW, NE and SE walls on the third floor, and an ogee-headed window in the SW wall; large square windows in the NW and SE walls (double mullion survives in the latter window) and a smaller single-mullioned window in the NE wall on the fourth floor. The spiral stairs was lit by three slit ogee-headed windows at inter-floor levels in the NE and NW walls. There was a thatched house c. 0.8m from the SE wall of the tower house. Its NW (back) wall thickened considerably towards its W end where it was only 0.6m from the tower house. This section of walling was unplastered externally and three broken corbels were visible projecting from it. At the corner of this wall another wall extended to the NW, just to the W of the SW wall of the tower house, and four well-dressed projecting corbels were visible on its external face. A third wall off the N end of this wall ran towards the base-batter of the tower house but was not bonded into it. These walls formed a small passageway between the tower house and the thatched house. Its function was unclear but it was possibly associated with the tower house. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 22 May 2015

Architectural heritage

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

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 Caherkinmonwee, 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 Caherkinmonwee.

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 Caherkinmonwee with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Caherkinmonwee · Cathair Chinn Mhaonmhaí

Area

205,883 m² (20.59 ha, 50.87 acres)

Civil parish

Kilconierin, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Moyode, the unit of the census

Census 2022

297 people lived in 100 households in the Moyode electoral division. 96% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynageeragh, Boleydorragha, Coolraugh, Ganty, Lickerrig, Treankyle

Placenames

Caherkinmonwee 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.