Caherhoereigh
Townland in the civil parish of Loughkeen, barony of Ormond Lower, Co. Tipperary; in Irish An Cheathrú Riabhach
- Area
- 91.1 ha
- 225 acres
- Land parcels
- 28
- registered freehold, median 4,568 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres)
- Zoning
- S5
- Social and Public
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caherhoereigh, from 245 m² to 244,095 m² (24.41 ha, 60.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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
- S5Social and Public (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 1 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
26 Aug 2025Conditional
a two storey dwelling, domestic outbuilding, proposed septic tank and percolation area, all associated site works, boundary treatments including a proposed site entrance and shared access road as previously approved planning ref 07511102
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 25174
25 Feb 2025Conditional
the following development which is in the original curtilage of a Protected Structure (Record of Protected Structures No.TRPS526, Postbox, within the Tipperary County Development Plan 2022 – 2028). The establishment of a new community park which will consist of: a) a new pedestrian bridge and partial removal of stone wall to facilitate bridge access to the park; b) new park entrance with paving, stone walls, steel arches and community notice board; c) a nature based play space incorporating site furniture, play elements, grass mounds and planted areas; d) a new gravel car park area; e) a pedestrian gravel pathway throughout the site; f) external lighting between carpark and park entrance; g) a bio-retention swale; h) tree planting, planting, landscaping throughout the site and any ancillary site development works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560141
13 May 2024N/a
a proposesd two-storey dwelling, domestic outbuilding, a proposed septic tank and percolation area, all associated siteworks, including a proposed site entrance
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 24107
22 Sept 2023Refused
(1) The construction of 7 no. wind turbines and associated hardstand areas with the following parameters a) total tip height range of 179.5m – 185m, b) rotor diameter range of 149m – 163m, c) hub height range of 103.5m to 110.5m; (2) 1 no. permanent 38kV electrical substation which will be constructed in the townland of Faddan Beg consisting of a single storey control building with welfare facilities, all associated electrical plant and equipment, battery energy storage system, security fencing, all associated underground cabling, wastewater holding tank and all ancillary works and equipment; (3) All works (within County Tipperary) associated with the connection of the proposed wind farm to the national electricity grid, via the provision of underground electrical cabling (38kV) to the existing Dallow 110kV substation in the townland of Clondallow, Co. Offaly; (4) Provision of 10 no. joint bays, communication chambers and earth sheath links along the underground electrical cabling route; (5) reinstatement of the road or track surface above the proposed cabling trench along existing roads and tracks; (6) all associated underground electrical and communications cabling connecting the turbines to the proposed wind farm substation; (7) 1 no. meteorological mast with a height of 107m above ground and associated foundation and hard-standing area; (8) upgrade of existing tracks and roads and the provision of new site access roads; (9) all works associated with the provision of a new permanent site entrance off the L5040 local road; (10) provision of 5 no. new access and egress points along the L5041 local road in the townlands of Cloncorig, Faddan More and Coolderry; (11) Provision of 4 no. peat repository areas and 3 no. spoil repository areas; (12) 2 no. temporary construction compounds with temporary site offices and staff facilities; (13) Accommodation works along the public road network along the N52 national secondary road in the townland of Ballyloughnane to facilitate the delivery of turbine components and other abnormal sized loads; (14) Site Drainage; (15) Tree Felling; (16) Operational stage site signage; and, (17) all associated site development works, ancillary works and apparatus. - Works within the curtilage of Protected Structures RPS Ref. TRPS336 (Ballyloughnane Bridge) and RPS Ref. TRPS519 (Croghan Bridge)
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2360763
28 Feb 2018Conditional
a) part of existing side extension to original house; and Full permission for b) demolition of part of existing side extension, c) proposed raised roofline of existing side extension, d) new entrance porch at side extension, e) new entrance porch at original house, f) new single-storey rear extension including ancillary family accommodation, g) new wastewater treatment system, h) new vehicular entrance and landscaping
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 18600251
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 Caherhoereigh.
Recorded monuments
- TN005-033 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on high ground with extensive views. A large circular area (diam. 60m E-W) enclosed by two earth and stone banks with a wide flat-bottomed intervening fosse (Wth. 5.5m-8m; D 1.5m) and a possible causewayed entrance (Wth 4m) at E. The inner bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 2m) is best preserved while the outer bank (Wth 5.5m; ext. H 0.5m) is poorly preserved especially at E where a modern spoil heap covers both banks. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
Architectural heritage
- Catholic Church of the Annunciation, church/chapel, 1820–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding gable-fronted cruciform-plan Catholic church, dated 1825, having porches recently added to transepts. Pitched artificial slate roof with bellcote to entrance gable. Pebble-dash render to all walls except to ashlar limestone entrance front and to bellcote and corner buttresses of transepts. Carved stone date plaque to entrance front. Pointed-arch window openings having block-and-start cut-stone surrounds and replacement timber windows. Stained-glass window to south (altar) end. Cut-stone front door surround with hood-moulding, pinnacles and battlements having replacement timber battened doors. Exposed roof trusses and gallery with carved timber balustrade to interior. Timber and glazed entrance screen retaining original doors.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1590 (ZIP).
- 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 Caherhoereigh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Caherhoereigh · An Cheathrú Riabhach
- Area
- 910,635 m² (91.06 ha, 225.02 acres)
- Civil parish
- Loughkeen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ormond Lower
- Electoral division
- Carrig, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Carrig electoral division: 186 people in 70 households; 91% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballykinash, Castletown, Cornhill, Doughkill, Faddan Beg, Kylenamuck, Pallas, Tinlough, Tinnakilly
- Placenames
- Caherhoereigh 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.