Caher

71 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caher, from 60 m² to 92,320 m² (9.23 ha, 22.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 43 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 Caher 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.

• 24 Jun 2026Conditional

  Permission for the following: 1. To retain revised elevations and alterations to existing house, 2. To retain sunroom extension as constructed, 3. To retain garage as constructed, 4. To retain revised boundary treatment, stone wall, completion of landscaping and associated boundary works and carry out all ancillary site development works at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2660309

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 Caher.

Recorded monuments

• RO026-048 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as a subcircular or oval embanked area (ext. dims c. 55m N-S; c. 45m E-W) on the 1837 and 1929 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a gentle N-facing slope. Described as a rath with an earthen bank (Gannon 1972), it is not now visible at ground level in pasture, apart from a field bank and hedge at SW (L c. 25m) and W (L c. 30m). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO026-051 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m) only on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated in pasture at the crest of a SE-facing slope at the S end of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. It is not visible at ground level in pasture and the location is now marked by a possible standing stone (RO026-068----). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO026-068 Standing stone
  Description

  At the crest of a S-facing slope at the S end of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. Upright stone with a subrectangular cross-section (dims of base 0.9m N-S; 0.5m E-W; H 0.8m) which has had its top removed leaving a scar, and now has a whitethorn tree growing around its S edge. The possible ringfort (RO026-051----) is at the same location. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Caher, about 1 in 20 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_1081 (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 Caher with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Caher · Ceachair

Area

1,425,391 m² (142.54 ha, 352.22 acres)

Civil parish

Kilkeevin, and its townlands

Barony

Castlereagh

Electoral division

Coolougher, the unit of the census

Census 2022

509 people lived in 196 households in the Coolougher electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clooncah, Clooncoose South, Clooncran, Cloondacarra, Cloonkeen, Cloontrask, Creggancor

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.