Caherbulligin

74 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caherbulligin, from 47 m² to 71,312 m² (7.13 ha, 17.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 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 Caherbulligin 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.

• 23 Nov 2023Conditional

  SPLIT DECISION - GRANT PERMISSION for the: 1.) Construction of a dwelling house, treatment unit and all associated services, 2.) Retention of storage shed and REFUSE PERMISSION - 3.) Temporary retention of mobile home and septic tank. Gross floor space of proposed works: 135.20 sqm (house) & 49 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361401

• 12 Nov 2021Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house and garage with treatment plant and percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 212 sqm, Garage: 44 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212110

• 18 Nov 2020Conditional

  to construct a dwelling and a garage, treatment plant with percolation area and all associated site landscaping and services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 204 sqm (H), 49 sqm (G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201730

• 13 Mar 2020Conditional

  for a change of house plan and garage plans from those previously approved under planning reference 17/225. Gross floor space of proposed works: House 354.8 sqm, Garage 60.00 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20330

• 22 Feb 2017Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage and a proprietary treatment system (Gross floor space of proposed works: 277.5sqm)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17225

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 Caherbulligin.

Recorded monuments

• GA096-023 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In level pastureland. Known locally as ‘Cave-Fort’ (Redington 1916a, 55) and classified by McCaffrey (1952, 150, no. 48) as a circular ‘Stone fort’ (diam. c. 43.3m) defined by a drystone wall with an entrance gap (Wth c. 1.5m) at N. No visible surface trace of the cashel wall survives but its outline is preserved in a later curving field wall. A souterrain (GA096-023001-) lies in the NE quadrant of the interior. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 10 January 2017

• GA096-023001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within the NE quadrant of a cashel (GA096-023----). This drystone-built souterrain (L 7.2m; Wth c. 1.2m) runs E-W, curving slightly to W. Access is gained at the E end via a series of sod-covered stone steps. The floor is covered with earth, stone, boulders and rubbish. (Redington 1916a, 55; McCaffrey 1952, 150, no. 48) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 10 January 2017

• GA096-024 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pastureland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 22.9m) defined by a bank overlain by a field wall. A road skirts the monument from S through W to N. A souterrain (GA096-024001-) lies within the SW quadrant of the interior. (Redington 1916a, 55; McCaffrey 1952, 150-51, no. 49) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 10 January 2017

• GA096-024001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within the SW quadrant of a rath (GA096-024----). This souterrain is inaccessible due to collapse and it is so densely overgrown that is was not possible to estimate its length. One roof lintel was visible, indicating that it ran SE-NW in direction. (McCaffrey 1952, 150, no. 49) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 10 January 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 Caherbulligin, 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 water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_798 (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 Caherbulligin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Caherbulligin · Cathair Bhoilgín

Area

661,583 m² (66.16 ha, 163.48 acres)

Civil parish

Killeeneen, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Killeely, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,929 people lived in 572 households in the Killeely electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 52% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brockagh, Caheradine, Coldwood or Foorkill, Creggananta, Killeeneen More, Lavally, Tallowroe

Placenames

Caherbulligin 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.