Caher
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmocomoge, barony of Bantry, Co. Cork; in Irish An Chathair
Parcel 4036402
- Area
- 3,052 m² (0.31 ha, 0.75 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it, 145 m² on the ground
- Zoning
- G3 Greenbelt1 (Cork County Development Plan 2022) The objective
- Townland
- Caher
Planning applications on this parcel
13 Jun 2001Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 01/3400
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
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
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.
- Area
- 30.2 ha
- 75 acres
- Land parcels
- 47
- registered freehold, median 3,052 m² (0.31 ha, 0.75 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 36
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caher, from 57 m² to 54,402 m² (5.44 ha, 13.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 69 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
6 Jun 2026Grant with conditions
Proposed demolition of a rear flat roof extension (previously permitted under Planning Reference 20/00323), extensions, renovations and raised entrance terrace to an existing dwelling, and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1506
5 Aug 2025Conditional permission
1) Demolition of existing extensions to the side and rear of an existing dwelling. 2) Construction of new extensions to the side and rear, 3) Alterations to existing elevations including installation of new solar panels, and 4) All associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/434
19 Jun 2025Conditional permission
Construction of dwelling house for installation of sewerage waste water treatment system, for alterations to existing access road to include part widening and re-surfacing and for all associated site works to serve same
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/342
24 Apr 2023Withdrawn
Permission sought for (a) Alterations to existing access road to property and for demolition of existing domestic garage as part of same. (b) For construction of new dwellling house with attached garage. (c) For installation new sewerage waste water treatment system to serve same and for all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/223
4 Mar 2022Withdrawn
(A) Alterations to existing access road to property and for demolition of existing domestic garage as part of same, (B) Construction of new dwelling house with attached garage, (C) Installation of new sewerage waste water treatment system to serve same and for all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/149
25 Jun 2020Conditional
Retention of studio / workshop and permission for demolition of existing flat roof extension and for construction of alterations and extensions to dwelling house to include decking to front and rear patio and associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/323
26 Mar 2020Incompleted application
Retention of studio / workshop and permission for demolition of existing flat roof extension and for construction of alterations and extensions to dwelling house to include decking to front and rear patio and associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/172
13 Sept 2019Conditional
Permission for retention and completion of detached studio / dwelling unit ancillary in use to existing dwelling house and retention of wastewater treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/588
18 Jul 2018Conditional
Retention of granny flat extension to dwelling, retention of 1 no. roof light to main dwelling house and detached domestic storage shed
Retention · Cork County Council, 18/424
1 Feb 2017Unconditional
(a) demolition of outhouse and for construction of new dwelling, (b) installation of sewerage waste water treatment system to serve both proposed and existing dwelling (c) renovate ruinous structure for use as studio, (d) all associated site works
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 17/50
30 Jun 2015Conditional
Permission is sought for construction of attached domestic garage to dwelling house and for all associated site works and permission sought for retention of minor elevational changes to facade of said dwelling house including two no. balconies. Permission also sought to carry out alterations to said balconies
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/371
9 Apr 2014Conditional
Construct an extension to dwelling house, including all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/244
3 Feb 2012Conditional
Permission sought for construction of dwelling house to include attached ancillary granny flat, installation of waste water treatment system & for all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/56
28 Sept 2011Conditional
(a) Demolition of outhouse and for construction of new dwelling, (b) Installation of sewerage waste water treatment system to serve both proposed and existing dwelling, (c) Renovate ruinous structure for use as studio, (d) All associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/597
29 Aug 2008Conditional
Retention of (a) extension to dwelling and (b) change of use from attached garage to habitable use including alterations to same
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1582
5 Aug 2008Incompleted application
(i) Retention of extension to dwelling, (ii) Retention of change of use of domestic garage to habitable use including retention of raise of roof apex level of same
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1452
26 Oct 2007Conditional
Extension to existing dwelling for use as ancillary dwelling, installation of treatment plant and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/2743
11 Jun 2007Incompleted application
Extension to existing dwellinghouse for use as ancillary dwelling, installation of treatment plant and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1531
8 Feb 2007Refused
Dwelling, installation of mini-treatment waste water system and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/341
5 Feb 2007Withdrawn
Demolish existing garage, construct new ancillary dwelling, installation of treatment plant and improvements to existing septic tank drainage system and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/286
2 Jan 2007Incompleted application
Dwelling, installation of mini-treatment waste water system and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/18
15 Jun 2006Conditional
Retention of existing private leisure building
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/1135
22 Dec 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/9698
12 Jul 2005Refused
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4971
4 Mar 2005Conditional
Retention of extension to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/1279
The 25 most recent of 36 applications.
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Caher.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Caher.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Caher.
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, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Caher.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Caher with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Caher · An Chathair
- Area
- 301,864 m² (30.19 ha, 74.59 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmocomoge, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bantry
- Electoral division
- Bantry Rural, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrigboy, Dunnamark, Gouree Beg, Gurteenroe
- Placenames
- Caher 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.