Caherbrack

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caherbrack, from 77 m² to 361,225 m² (36.12 ha, 89.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Caherbrack 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 2022Conditional

  installation of cattle underpass, a soiled water tank and associated works

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 22472

• 25 Jun 2020Conditional

  demolition of existing pig houses, associated buildings and slurry stores and construct three fattening pig houses, one weaner pig house, associated slurry tanks, a covered pig loading race, a feed mixing shed, a feed silo shed with equipment rooms, office, canteen, showers and WC, a waste water treatment system and associated site works. The site of the proposed development has an IPPC License Ref No. P0414-01. An 'Appropriate Assessment Screening and Natura Impact Statement Report' and an 'Environmental Impact Assessment Report' are being submitted with this planning application. (Os Map Sheets 5762-B, 5762-D, National Grid Ref: 618580, 607540,

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 20393

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: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170

Recorded monuments

• WA013-015 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a knoll overlooking a NE-SW stream, c. 30m to the S. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims. 54m N-S; 44.5m E-W) defined by an eroded stone bank (Wth 5.8-8.2m; int. H 0.3m at S to 1.2m at N; ext. H 1.7m at N to 3.1m at E) WNW-S, and enclosed elsewhere by a field wall (Wth 1m; H 1m) built on the remains of the bank. The entrance cannot be identified, but there are gaps in the perimeter at NE, E, SE an S. There is no visible fosse, but a drain crosses the interior E-W and the surrounding fields have been reclaimed. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 12th November, 2010. Compiled by: Michael Moore

Architectural heritage

• Caherbrack House, farm house, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse with dormer attic, c.1820. Refenestrated, c.1870, with some openings remodelled. Extended, c.1920, comprising single-bay single-storey advanced end bay to left (south). Renovated and extended, c.1970, comprising single-bay single-storey flat-roofed return to south-west. Hipped gabled slate roof (hipped to end bay) with clay ridge tiles, replacement cement rendered chimney stacks, c.1970, square rooflight, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves having iron brackets. Flat bitumen felt roof to return with plastic rainwater goods on timber eaves. Painted rendered walls with rendered quoins to ends. Square-headed window openings (some remodelled, c.1870, forming bipartite arrangement) with rendered sills. Replacement 1/1 timber sash windows, c.1870. Square-headed window openings to end bay and to return with concrete sills, and replacement timber casement windows, c.1970. Square-headed door opening with replacement glazed timber panelled door, c.1920, and overlight. Set back from road in own grounds.(ii) Pair of detached seven-bay single-storey rubble stone outbuildings, c.1820, perpendicular to west flanking courtyard with one having elliptical-headed carriageway, and single-bay single-storey lower end bay to west. Part reroofed, c.1970. Pitched slate roofs over timber construction with sections of replacement corrugated-iron, c.1970, to outbuilding to south, iron ridge tiles, rendered gabled bellcote to gable to outbuilding to south (bell missing), and no rainwater goods on squared rubble stone eaves. Limewashed random rubble stone walls. Square-headed door openings with timber lintels, timber boarded doors and half-doors. Elliptical-headed carriageway with rendered voussoirs, and wrought iron double gates.

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 Caherbrack, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Caherbrack with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.

Name

Caherbrack · An Chathair Bhreac

Area

1,727,768 m² (172.78 ha, 426.94 acres)

Civil parish

Kilronan (Clonmel No. 2 Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Glenahiry

Electoral division

Graignagower, the unit of the census

Census 2022

550 people lived in 201 households in the Graignagower electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynamult, Boolavonteen, Cahernaleague, Carrigroe, Knockmeal

Placenames

Caherbrack 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.