Caherkereen

64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caherkereen, from 3 m² to 308,904 m² (30.89 ha, 76.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Caherkereen 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.

• 29 Apr 2024Unconditional

  Permission to construct 3 no. dwelling houses and all associated site works. Extension of Duration to Permission granted under Planning Ref. No. 19/4252

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 24/4750

• 11 Feb 2022Conditional

  Demolition of existing shed and construction of a two storey extension to an existing house. Erect a canopy to the proposed extension and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4284

• 9 Feb 2022Withdrawn

  Construction of a dwelling house, a garage for domestic purposes, alterations to existing agricultural entrance and to carry out all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4251

• 29 Mar 2021Conditional

  The change of use of existing store and garage to 2 number dwellinghouses, consisting of 1 number 3 bedroom dwellinghouse and 1 number 2 bedroom dwellinghouse, permission for elevational changes to existing structure to include new roof, increase in ridge height all to existing building, alterations to window and door fenestration of the existing building, connection to existing sewer system, new footpath and ramp together with all other ancillary site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4792

• 19 Nov 2020Conditional

  Permission for retention of Domestic Garage.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 20/6569

• 11 Jun 2019Conditional

  Construction of a new carpentry workshop and Permission for alterations to elevations, ground and first floor extension and change of use of existing single storey carpentry workshop to a dwelling house.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5529

• 6 Feb 2019Conditional

  Construct 3 no. dwellinghouses and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4252

• 12 Dec 2018Conditional

  Construction of dwellinghouse, domestic garage, new entrance together with all other ancillary site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/7276

• 5 Dec 2018Incompleted application

  To construct 3no. dwellings and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/7199

• 20 Mar 2018Conditional

  (a)Construction of an agricultural shed to include livestock housing and covered feed area with underground slatted slurry tank, (b) Construction of an extension to an existing agricultural livestock housing shed to include straw bedded and additional feed spaces and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4677

• 26 Feb 2018Incompleted application

  (a) Construction of an agricultural shed with an underground slatted slurry tank. (b) Construction of an extension to an existing agricultural shed and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4481

• 6 Jul 2016Conditional

  Retention and completion of partially constructed two storey dwelling, well, garden shed (1 No.), entrance walls, gate and set back road side timber boundary fence and for the installation of a proprietary effluent treatment unit and percolation area. Retention of temporary on site living accommodation unit (1 no.), personal effects storage containers (8 no.) and septic tank for the duration of the building works of the main dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/5690

• 3 Jun 2016Incompleted application

  Retention of part constructed timber frame two storey dwelling house, well, garden shed, entrance walls and gate and set back road side timber boundary fence and Permission for the installation of a proprietary effluent treatment unit and percolation area. Retention of temporary on site living accommodation, storage containers and septic tank for duration of the building works of the main dwelling.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 16/5339

• 30 Aug 2013Conditional

  Extensions and alterations to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/5694

• 12 Feb 2013Conditional

  Construction of slatted cubicle house with effluent tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/4229

• 8 May 2012Unconditional

  3 no. dwellinghouses, extension of duration to permission granted under planning reg 06/12551

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 12/4954

• 1 Nov 2011Conditional

  Retention of a single storey agricultural storage shed

  Retention · Cork County Council, 11/6318

• 10 Oct 2011Incompleted application

  Retention of a single storey agricultural storage shed

  Retention · Cork County Council, 11/6170

• 1 Jun 2010Conditional

  Recommencing a blacksmith and farrier enterprise from existing building, repairing existing stone walls and repairing or replacing of existing door and windows along with all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5347

• 15 Jul 2009Conditional

  Retention of dwelling house as constructed (original planning ref.no. 06/6859)

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/6353

• 22 Apr 2009Incompleted application

  Retention of changes to permitted dwellinghouse (planning ref.no. 06/6859)

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5249

• 30 Oct 2007Conditional

  Construction of extension to milking parlour and yard and construction of extension to existing existing cattle crush

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/12019

• 3 Oct 2007Withdrawn

  Dwellinghouse, garage and installation of proprietary treatment unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11384

• 20 Jul 2007Refused

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/9728

• 19 Jun 2007Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8794

The 25 most recent of 40 applications.

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 Caherkereen.

Recorded monuments

• CO070-063 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on N-facing slope. Oval area (29.1m E-W; 24.4m N-S) enclosed by earth and stone bank (H 0.7m), topped by ruined stone field boundary. Break (Wth 1.5m) in bank to NW. Interior used for grazing; cairn (diam. c. 4m; H 0.9m), partially grass-covered, to E of centre. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO070-064 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  In pasture, near top of hill. Ivy-clad chimney stack (1.8m E-W; 3.05m N-S; H c. 10m) of unknown date, probably projecting from W wall of house (long axis N-S) indicated on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Fireplace (Wth 2.42m; D 1.17m) facing E with lintel missing. According to local information, part of 'Elizabethan hospital'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Architectural heritage

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

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 Caherkereen, about 1 in 10 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Caherkereen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Caherkereen · Cathair Céirín

Area

1,563,637 m² (156.36 ha, 386.38 acres)

Civil parish

Kilnamartery, and its townlands

Barony

Muskerry West

Electoral division

Kilnamartery, the unit of the census

Census 2022

731 people lived in 249 households in the Kilnamartery electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyvoge, Caherdaha, Dromagarry, Dromreague, Kylefinchin, Prohus, Shanvallyshane

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Caherkereen 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.