Caherroyn

796 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caherroyn, from 2 m² to 184,522 m² (18.45 ha, 45.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 44 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Residential Existing (Existing residential)
  Athenry Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Galway County · 694 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space/Recreation & Amenity (Open space, park)
  Athenry Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Galway County · 29 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N1.5Transport Infrastructure (Mixed/general transport uses)
  Athenry Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Galway County · 24 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M1Commercial/Mixed Use (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
  Athenry Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Galway County · 22 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R4Residential (Phase 2) (Strategic Residential Reserve)
  Athenry Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Galway County · 17 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.2Industrial (General industry)
  Athenry Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Galway County · 9 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Town Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Athenry Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Galway County · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1Residential Infill (New/proposed residential)
  Athenry Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Galway County · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C5Tourism (Tourism and related)
  Athenry Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Galway County · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S3Community Facilities (Community facilities)
  Athenry Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Galway County · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N1.6Disused Railway (Other transport/general uses)
  Athenry Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Galway County · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N2.1Water/Rivers/Streams (Water)
  Athenry Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Galway County · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1Residential (Phase 1) (New/proposed residential)
  Athenry Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Galway County · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

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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 Caherroyn.

Recorded monuments

• GA084-034 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pastureland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m). No visible surface trace survives; probably levelled during the construction of the Galway-Dublin railway line which crosses it from roughly NE to SW. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 19 July 2019

• GA084-035 Country house
  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

• Banba House, house, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey L-plan house, built c.1880, having gable-fronted projecting bay to west end of front elevation with canted-bay windows, and gabled entrance porch. Pitched slate roof with smooth rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods, and rendered crenellations to canted bay. Painted lined-and-ruled rendered walls having continuous sill course to first floor. Segmental-headed window openings to first floor, square-headed openings to ground floor, with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed timber panelled door. Wrought-iron gates and rendered piers to front boundary set into rubble limestone walls.

• Bridge, 1895–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch humpbacked railway bridge, built 1896, carrying road at skew over Athenry to Tuam railway line. Rusticated limestone parapet walls with tooled capstones, rusticated voussoirs to segmental arch and rusticated walling to elevations and abutments.

• Bridge, 1850–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-span railway bridge, built 1851, carrying road over Galway to Dublin railway line. Cut limestone abutments with rusticated quoins supporting metal superstructure having wrought-iron latticework parapets.

• Bridge, 1850–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch limestone railway bridge, built 1851, carrying road over Galway-Dublin railway line. Rock-faced rusticated walls and piers, voussoirs and string course, with buttresses flanking elliptical arch, latter having ashlar soffit. Cut-stone string courses and copings to parapet walls.

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 Caherroyn, 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. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_867 (ZIP).

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

Name

Caherroyn · Cathair Ruaín

Area

1,086,619 m² (108.66 ha, 268.51 acres)

Civil parish

Monivea, and its townlands

Barony

Athenry

Electoral division

Athenry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

5,765 people lived in 2,069 households in the Athenry electoral division. 67% of households owned their home. 56% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Athenry, Ballydavid South, Carrowntober West, Cullairbaun, Gorteenacra, Kilcornan, Kingsland North, Pollacappul

Placenames

Caherroyn 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.