Cahernamuck West

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cahernamuck West, from 15 m² to 231,430 m² (23.14 ha, 57.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Cahernamuck West 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.

• 2 Jun 2017Refused

  for development consisting of a solar PV farm to export electricity to the national grid. The solar panel array will consist of up to approximately 27602 square metres of solar photovoltaic panels on ground mounted frames, 1 number electrical control building, 2 number inverter cabins, temporary construction area and ancillary facilities, boundary security fence, use of a current site entrance, creation of an additional site entrance, access track, CCTV security system, and all associated works. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 94.9 sqm.)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17792

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 Cahernamuck West.

Recorded monuments

• GA097-049 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In undulating grassland. This well-preserved bivallate cashel (int. dims. 42m N-S; 32m E-W) is defined by two drystone walls with a very wide intervening shallow fosse. The inner wall consists of a grassed-over stony mound (original Wth 3.7m; int. H c. 1m; ext. H 2m). One course of inner and outer facing-stones (H 0.25m), consisting of large squared-off limestone blocks, is visible all round and is most clear at N. The wall has slipped a lot both internally and externally making it very wide (max. 10m). No trace of an entrance is evident. The fosse (Wth 6-8m) is visible from SW through N to SE. It is densely overgrown with thistle, nettle and fern growth and a number of dead tree stumps are visible. No causeway is visible. The outer wall also consists of a grassed-over stony mound (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.5m). It survives from SW through N to E and a later field wall has been built on top of it. The interior is very uneven and densely overgrown with nettles. Some low grassed-over collapsed stone banks may indicate the remains of internal divisions or structures. A collapsed souterrain (GA097-049001-) lies in the N sector. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 10 May 2021

• GA097-049001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within the N sector of a cashel (GA097-049----). This souterrain (L >13.5m) has collapsed and consists of two rectangular stone-filled depressions. That to E runs NNE-SSW (L 4m; Wth 1.8m). The other lies some 7m to WNW of its SW end. It runs NNW-SSE (L 2.5m). A number of displaced roof-lintels are visible in both depressions. The souterrain appears to have been L-shaped in plan though no visible surface trace of it survives between the junction of the two depressions. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 January 2017

• GA097-050 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  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.

• 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).

• GA097-173 Enclosure
  Description

  In pastureland. This roughly subrectangular enclosure (c. 41m NW-SE; c. 40m NE-SW) was brought to the attention of the Survey by Jean-Charles Caillère who identified it on Google Earth satellite imagery dated March 2011. A field boundary overlies the enclosing element from NW to NNE. Subsequent aerial imagery suggests that the monument is levelled. Another enclosure (GA097-174----) lies c. 530m to the ENE and a cashel (GA097-049----) lies c. 255m to the SE. The following image has been uploaded: GA097-173----_01.jpg Google Earth, imagery dated 16 March 2011. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 12 May 2021

Architectural heritage

• Lynchfort House, house, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement house, built c.1780, having lower projecting stairs return. Hipped slate roof with centrally placed pair of rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls. Square-headed replacement windows to rear elevation, round-headed to to stairs window. Front elevation not visible. Extensive grounds accessed by gateway comprising square-plan dressed limestone piers with caps and decorative double-leaf wrought-iron vehicular gate, with rubble limestone boundary walls.

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 Cahernamuck West, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Cahernamuck West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Cahernamuck West · Cathair na Muc Thiar

Area

470,064 m² (47.01 ha, 116.16 acres)

Civil parish

Kilconickny, and its townlands

Barony

Loughrea

Electoral division

Lackalea, the unit of the census

Census 2022

425 people lived in 119 households in the Lackalea electoral division. 97% of households owned their home. 56% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybaun, Cahernamona, Cahernamuck East, Raruddy East

Placenames

Cahernamuck West 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.