Cahernamuck East

Area

190,840 m² (19.08 ha, 47.16 acres)

Buildings

No building touches it.

Zoning

No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.

Townland

Cahernamuck East

Planning applications on this parcel

• 30 Aug 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 237.95 sqm (house) & 41.58 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461144

• 13 Aug 2024N/a

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 237.95 sqm (house) & 50.00 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461041

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 this parcel.

Recorded monuments around it

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 6 recorded monuments.

• GA097-051 Castle - tower house
  Description

  In rough patureland and located in the SE corner of a moated site (GA097-051001-). In existence in 1574 when it was in the possession of 'Walter Burke' (Nolan 1901, 112). When initially inspected in August 1984, this poorly preserved rectangular tower house (L 9.1m, Wth >8.5m), which was at least four storeys high originally, had a small almost square projecting turret (L 4.6m, Wth 4m) at its NE corner. The tower had a gentle base-batter and was constructed of roughly cut coursed limestone blocks; a plinth was visible on the N side. The lower portions of the E and S walls (Wth 1.6m, H 3.5m max.), and the S half of the W wall (H 3m) survived. The N half of the W wall and the line of N wall were indicated by grassed-over stony mounds. No architectural features were visible and the interior was rubble-filled. Substantial portions of the turret, partially mantled in ivy, survived. These included the E and S walls along with adjoining parts of the N wall (Wth 0.85-1.1m), all of which survived to a height of four storeys. Each of the three surviving corners was chamfered. Stone vaults existed between ground/1st and 2nd/3rd floors and there was a possible connecting doorway to tower on the 1st floor. Slit windows were centrally placed in the N and E walls on the ground floor: the former had a gun-loop expansion at its mid-point. There were also slit windows on 1st and 2nd floors in the N wall and on 1st floor in the S wall. In October 1991, following the use of explosives, the turret was reduced to a mound of rubble. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 31 August 2018 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 5/1991).

• GA097-051001 Moated site
  Description

  In pastureland, c. 40m to the NE of the St Cleran’s River. This rectangular moated site (34m E-W; 25.5m N-S), in fair condition, is defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. A shallow fosse at the NW corner, which runs W via a breach in the outer bank, is possibly a leat. A tower house (GA097-051----) overlies the enclosing elements at SE. A collapsed stone wall running along the inner bank may be the remains of a bawn wall (GA097-051002-). Within the interior a possible house site (GA097-051003-) is visible in the NE corner. A later small rectangular field, which is defined by stone wall that runs along the W and N sides of the inner bank, is planted with trees. A possible N-S running internal division, defined by a low bank, extends off the inner banks at S. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 2 December 2019 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 5/1991).

• GA097-051002 Bawn
  Description

  The inner bank of a moated site (GA097-051001-) is composed mainly of earth but it is topped with a stone wall that may be the remains of a bawn wall associated with the tower house (GA097-051----), which overlies its SE corner. Wall revetment is visible intermittently on both faces of the bank and is best preserved along the S side where a continuous stretch is visible for a length of 11m. Here the wall (Wth 1.3m; H 0.3m) is constructed of large blocks of limestone inner and outer facing stones and a rubble core. A later field wall runs along the N two-thirds of the W bank and the W end of the N bank. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 2 December 2019 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 5/1991).

• GA097-051003 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  A possible rectangular house (6.2m N-S; 4.2m E-W) is visible in the NE corner of the bawn (GA097-051001-). The remains of a tower house (GA097-051----) are visible in the SE corner. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 2 December 2019 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 5/1991).

• GA097-051004 Enclosure
  Description

  Possibly associated with a moated site (GA097-051001-). A small rectangular enclosure (6m N-S; 3.5m E-W) defined by a low earthen bank is built against the NW corner of the outer bank of the moated site. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 2 December 2019 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 5/1991).

• GA097-158001 Earthwork
  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 on this parcel.

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).

Ground and risks

Radon

At the centre of this parcel, 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_990 (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.

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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.