Caherakilleen

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caherakilleen, from 810 m² to 105,836 m² (10.58 ha, 26.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Caherakilleen 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.

• 11 May 2022Conditional

  for the existing 2 arrays of Solar PV Panels, Array 1-187.92 sqm & Array 2-111.29 sqm totaling 299.21 sqm as erected on the existing roofed structure. All with the associated site works. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 1,992.70 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 22607

• 24 Apr 2020Conditional

  for the following 1. For the demolition of existing agricultural structure, 2. The construction of new modern structure to be used as dry goods storage & staff facilities for existing bakery (area 479 sqm), 3. External covered pallet storage area (area 96.7 sqm) to the Northeast of the structure and 4. All associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 575.70 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 118.00 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20512

• 16 Apr 2020Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, treatment unit and polishing filter. Gross floor space of proposed works: 180.9 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20482

• 17 Sept 2019Refused

  to construct a dwelling house, treatment unit and polishing filter. Gross floor space of proposed works: 180.9 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191444

• 8 Aug 2019Conditional

  for the following, (i) for the demolition of existing agricultural structure and replacement of it with new modern structure to be used as storage for existing bakery (area 532m2), (ii) the retention of signage erected to the roof area along the Southwest elevation of the structure (Area 16m2). Gross floor space of work to be retained: 532 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191235

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 Caherakilleen.

Recorded monuments

• GA097-032 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In level grassland. Very poorly preserved oval cashel (50m N-S; 40m E-W) defined by a collapsed drystone wall much obscured by overgrowth. (McCaffrey 1952, 166, no. 10) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 January 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 Caherakilleen, 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 Caherakilleen.

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

Name

Caherakilleen · Cathair an Chillín

Area

360,072 m² (36.01 ha, 88.98 acres)

Civil parish

Kilconierin, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Kilconierin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

741 people lived in 238 households in the Kilconierin electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 58% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Curragh More, Greyford, Oldcastle, Raherneen, Skeagharegan

Placenames

Caherakilleen 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.