Cahercrin

67 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cahercrin, from 49 m² to 152,247 m² (15.22 ha, 37.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Cahercrin 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.

• 9 Sept 2025N/a

  for alterations to an existing house, for the construction of an extension onto same, and for the replacement of a septic tank with a proprietary effluent treatment system

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561279

• 5 Sept 2025Conditional

  for alterations to an existing house, for the construction of an extension onto same, and for the replacement of a septic tank with a proprietary effluent treatment system

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561258

• 26 Aug 2022Refused

  Construction of a new dwelling, septic tank, treatment system , percolation area and associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works 177.00 sq m.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260853

• 7 Apr 2022Refused

  for the construction of a new dwelling, septic tank, treatment system, percolation area and associated works. Gross floor area of proposed works: 177sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260325

• 10 Jan 2020Conditional

  to construct a two storey dwellinghouse sewage treatment plant, percolation area and associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 261 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2013

• 24 May 2019Refused

  to construct a two storey Dwelling house Sewerage Treatment Plant, Percolation area and associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 238.5 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 19798

• 15 Feb 2017Conditional

  to 1. Convert the existing integral garage into a play room; 2) Convert existing attic space above garage into a bedroom; 3) Construction of new dormer window to front and roof light to rear to an existing dwelling. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 161.6 sqm.)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17173

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 Cahercrin.

Recorded monuments

• GA096-029 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle NE-facing slope in pastureland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 32m) defined by a bank. Several gaps in the enclosing element appear to be modern. There is a children's burial ground (GA096-029001-) in the interior and a house site (GA096-031----) lies c. 70m to SE. (Redington 1916a, 56; O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 461; McCaffrey 1952, 151, no. 23) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 11 January 2017

• GA096-029001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Within the interior of a rath (GA096-029----). Apart from a scatter of stones along the enclosing bank at SE, which may possibly be displaced grave-markers, no visible surface trace survives. (Redington 1916, 56; O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 461; McCaffrey 1952, 151, no. 23) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 11 January 2017

• GA096-030 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a rise in pastureland. Circular cashel (diam. 50.4m), in fair condition, defined by a drystone wall. A gap (Wth c. 2m) at SSE may be original. A laneway cuts through the NE quadrant. Redington (1916a, 56) and Westropp (1919a, 181) refer to the presence of a souterrain (GA096-030001-) as well as late house foundations and several rectangular enclosures within the interior; some of the walls were built with mortar. Due to the dense overgrowth, trees and bushes none of these features could be identified. (McCaffrey 1952, 152, no. 25) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 11 January 2017

• GA096-030001 Souterrain
  Description

  Redington (1916a, 56) and Westropp (1919, 181) refer to the presence of a souterrain within the interior of the cashel (GA096-030----). Due to the dense overgrowth, trees and bushes it was not located. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 11 January 2017

• GA096-031 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 Cahercrin.

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 Cahercrin, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_833 (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 Cahercrin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Cahercrin · Cathair Chruinn

Area

1,320,797 m² (132.08 ha, 326.38 acres)

Civil parish

Killeeneen, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Greethill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,086 people lived in 326 households in the Greethill electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carheennascovoge, Castleturvin, Knockatoor, Laghtphilip, Lecarrow, Moneyteige, Rockfield

Placenames

Cahercrin 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.