Caherhemush

58 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caherhemush, from 158 m² to 39,146 m² (3.91 ha, 9.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Caherhemush 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Caherhemush in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Clyard Kettle-holes SAC 000480
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Clyard Kettle-Holes 000480

Recorded monuments

• MA121-047 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a rise in undulating pasture. Circular raised area (42m N-S; 43m E-W), enclosed by remains of stone wall, now piled with clearance. N half of site heavily overgrown. Interior very uneven. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 257. Date of upload: 23 December 2014

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1700–1838 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey direct entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1838, originally three- or four-bay single-storey with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch. Extended, pre-1923, producing present composition. Refenestrated. Reroofed, 2002. Vacated, 2009. Sold, 2011. Pitched roof with replacement reed thatch, remains of rope twist above exposed hazel or willow lattice stretchers to ridge having exposed scallops, cement rendered chimney stack having stepped capping supporting terracotta pot, and concrete or rendered coping to gables with cement rendered chimney stack to apex (east) having "Cavetto"-detailed stringcourse below capping. Limewashed rendered battered walls; cement rendered surface finish to side (east) elevation. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed opposing door openings with concealed dressings framing timber doors. Interior including kitchen retaining hearth, opposing loft ladder with timber balusters supporting timber banister terminating in timber newel, and timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled vaulted ceiling. Set in unkempt grounds perpendicular to road with limewashed piers to perimeter having capping supporting flat iron "farm gate".

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 Caherhemush, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Caherhemush with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Caherhemush · Cathair Shéamais

Area

545,533 m² (54.55 ha, 134.8 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmolara, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Neale, the unit of the census

Census 2022

879 people lived in 298 households in the Neale electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballywalter, Cahernagry West, Cashlancran, Munnadesha

Placenames

Caherhemush 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.