Caherphuca

82 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caherphuca, from 33 m² to 145,256 m² (14.53 ha, 35.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Caherphuca 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.

• 13 Aug 2024Conditional

  to construct a new farm entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461040

• 18 Apr 2024Conditional

  of serviced house on revised site boundaries. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 173.20 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460418

• 11 Mar 2020Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, detached garage, treatment plant and percolation area and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: Dwelling = 230 sqm, garage = 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20309

• 9 Dec 2019Conditional

  of the following. 1. The conversion of the attic to a study area / playroom. 2. Retain the rear extension and the additional side elevation window. 3. Retain the existing domestic garage/fuel store. (previous planning permission reference number 47970) and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 100 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191891

• 31 Jul 2019N/a

  for the following: 1. The conversion of the attic to study area / playroom. 2. Retain the rear extension and the additional side elevation window. 3. Retain the existing domestic garage / fuel store (previous planning permission reference number 47970) and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 100 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191191

• 3 Oct 2017Conditional

  to construct serviced dwelling house and domestic garage/store. Gross floor space of proposed works Dwelling House 330sqm, Garage 62sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171441

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 Caherphuca.

Recorded monuments

• GA058-044 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In undulating grassland. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as two conjoined circles defined by a line of open dots and labelled 'Stone Circles'. The remains are those of a very poorly preserved conjoined cashel. The NE cashel (NW-SE 55m, NE-SW 34m), oval in plan, is defined by a grassed-over collapsed drystone wall. A number of gaps are present but none appear original. The SW example (D 69m), originally circular in plan, is also defined by a drystone wall but now survives only from SE through W to N. Traces of inner and outer wall-facing are visible intermittently. There is a possible sheep pen in the interior. 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

• GA058-044001 Ringfort - cashel
  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.

• GA058-044002 Souterrain
  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.

• GA058-087 Enclosure
  Description

  On a SW-facing slope in gently undulating grassland. Large well-preserved rectangular enclosure (N-S 110m, E-W 55m) defined by a massive drystone wall (Wth 2m, H 2m max.) along S, W and N sides. The td. boundary wall (Wth 1.5m) forms the enclosing element along E side and there is no trace of the enclosure to E of it. There is a definite entrance (Wth c. 4m) at W and a possible one at SW. A number of houses (GA058-087001-, GA058-087002-, GA058-087003-) and several large piles of field- clearance rubble lie within the interior. An internal drystone wall subdivides NE quadrant. Possibly post-medieval in date. 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

• GA058-087001 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Within a large enclosure (GA058-087----). The 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map shows two rectangular roofed buildings in the interior at NW and SW. The NW example (GA058-087001-) survives as a rectangular area (E-W; L 9m, Wth 6m) defined by the foundations of a stone wall. It is partially obscured by field clearance, but opposing gaps in its walls at N and S appear original. The site of SW example (GA058-087002-) is now obscured by field clearance, but it appears to have been aligned N-S and is situated directly inside the enclosure wall. At S, the outline of a third house (GA058-087003-) survives as a rectangular grassed-over platform (E-W; L 10m, Wth 5m). 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

• GA058-087002 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Within a large enclosure (GA058-087----). The 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map shows two rectangular roofed buildings in the interior at NW and SW. The NW example (GA058-087001-) survives as a rectangular area (E-W; L 9m, Wth 6m) defined by the foundations of a stone wall. It is partially obscured by field clearance, but opposing gaps in its walls at N and S appear original. The site of SW example (GA058-087002-) is now obscured by field clearance, but it appears to have been aligned N-S and is situated directly inside the enclosure wall. At S, the outline of a third house (GA058-087003-) survives as a rectangular grassed-over platform (E-W; L 10m, Wth 5m). 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: 24 August 2016

• GA058-087003 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Within a large enclosure (GA058-087----). The 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map shows two rectangular roofed buildings in the interior at NW and SW. The NW example (GA058-087001-) survives as a rectangular area (E-W; L 9m, Wth 6m) defined by the foundations of a stone wall. It is partially obscured by field clearance, but opposing gaps in its walls at N and S appear original. The site of SW example (GA058-087002-) is now obscured by field clearance, but it appears to have been aligned N-S and is situated directly inside the enclosure wall. At S, the outline of a third house (GA058-087003-) survives as a rectangular grassed-over platform (E-W; L 10m, Wth 5m). 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: 24 August 2016

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch limestone railway bridge, built c.1850, over now disused Athenry-Claremorris railway line. Squared and snecked rock-faced walls having chamfered edges to outer elevations, rock-faced voussoirs, and flat rubble coping stones to parapets.

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 moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Caherphuca.

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

Name

Caherphuca · Cathair Phúca

Area

1,050,218 m² (105.02 ha, 259.51 acres)

Civil parish

Abbeyknockmoy, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Abbey West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Abbey West electoral division: 884 people in 290 households; 86% of households own their home; 54% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardnasodan, Ballybaun, Ballyglooneen, Ballynakilla, Ballynamona, Pollawarla, Pollsillagh

Placenames

Caherphuca 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.