Caherlustraun

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caherlustraun, from 128 m² to 466,378 m² (46.64 ha, 115.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Caherlustraun 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.

• 20 Aug 2024Conditional

  of: (1) existing dwelling house on revised site boundary. (2) Retain existing vehicular entrance in the Easterly direction of the roadside boundary. (3) Close up existing vehicular entrance in the westerly direction of the roadside boundary. (4) Decommission existing substandard septic tank. (5) Construct a new septic tank effluent treatment system and percolation area including all associated site development works. Planning reference number (Old28585)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461079

• 13 Sept 2021Conditional

  to construct a domestic shed/store. Gross floor space of proposed works: 55 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211673

• 30 May 2018Conditional

  to carry out alterations and construct extension to existing dwelling. Gross floor space of proposed works 44 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18719

• 19 Apr 2017Conditional

  to construct a private dwelling house with Domestic garage and sewerage treatment system and all other site services. (Gross floor space of proposed works: House 140 sqm., Garage 60 sqm.)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17527

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 Caherlustraun.

Recorded monuments

• GA042-055 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On a NE-facing slope in grassland. Roughly rectangular unenclosed area (NE-SW c. 9.5m, NW-SE c. 6m), delimited along S side by a field wall, within which a number of randomly placed set stones are visible. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA042-056 Enclosure
  Description

  In low-lying level grassland, overlooked by Knockmaa to SE. Poorly preserved irregular enclosure (NE-SW 52.6m, NW-SE 42.4m) defined by a bank of earth and stone, except from NW through N to NE where a field wall, following a roughly ENE-WSW axis, cuts the monument. Within the interior are a number of mounds and hollows, including the outline of two possible rectangular houses: according to local tradition, this was the site of a number of pre-famine houses. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA042-056001 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA042-056002 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Caherlustraun, 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 Caherlustraun.

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

Name

Caherlustraun · Cathair Loistreáin

Area

631,628 m² (63.16 ha, 156.08 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghpatrick, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Kilcoona, the unit of the census

Census 2022

662 people lived in 215 households in the Kilcoona electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintleva, Cave, Kildrum, Raheen, Stonepark or Bawnmore

Placenames

Caherlustraun 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.