Cahernaleague
Cahernaleague is a townland in the civil parish of Seskinan, barony of Decies Without Drum, Co. Waterford. Its name in Irish is Cathair na Léige.
- Area
- 177.1 ha
- 438 acres
- Land parcels
- 53
- registered freehold, median 6,242 m² (0.62 ha, 1.54 acres)
- Zoning
- M4
- RV
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cahernaleague, from 335 m² to 496,772 m² (49.68 ha, 122.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- M4RV (Built up area)
WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028, Waterford · 2 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
30 Sept 2026N/a
renovate and extend the existing dwelling, to convert the dwelling from single storey to dormer style. This will involve the demolition of part of the existing dwelling. Decommission the existing septic tank and install a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works.
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2660756
3 Sept 2026N/a
renovate and extend existing dwelling, to convert the dwelling from single storey to dormer style. This will involve the demolition of part of the existing dwelling. Also to decommission the existing septic tank and install a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works.
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2660680
1 Sept 2026N/a
renovate and extend the existing dwelling, to convert the dwelling from single storey to dormer style. This will involve the demolition of part of the existing dwelling. Also to decommission the existing septic tank and install a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works.
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2660669
2 Feb 2021Conditional
for a bungalow, entrance, wastewater treatment system with percolation area, borehole, soakpits and all other associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2163
14 Nov 2019Refused
a dwelling, entrance, wastewater treatment system with percolation area, borehole, soakpits and all other associated site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 19867
27 Sept 2019Conditional
a new single storey entrance porch to front and a new single storey extension to rear of an existing two storey dwelling and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 19719
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
Recorded monuments
- WA013-010 Barracks
Description
Situated on a bluff on the E bank of the N-S Finisk River between the Knockmealdown and Comeragh Mountains, guarding access to County Tipperary. It is at a point where a NE-SW stream enters the Finisk just 50m to the NW. Ballinamult barracks was built by 1714 as it features on a map of that date by Herman Moll (Andrews 1997, 163) and it is described as 'a redoubt for twenty men' (Smith 1746, 60). This is a rectangular yard (dims. 90m N-S; 80m E-W) with corner bastions and an entrance at the W. It survives complete with a Garda station on the site. Andrews, J.H. (1977) Shapes of Irealnd: maps and their makers 1564-1839. Geography Publications, Dublin. Smith, C. (1746) The history of the town and county of Waterford. W. Wilson. Dublin 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: 23 December 2008
- WA013-011 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Marked as a large embanked enclosure on the 1840 (ext. diam. c. 75m) and the 1927 (diam. c. 60m) eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated in pasture on a W-facing slope. It is not visible at ground level. 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: 25th July, 2010
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cahernaleague.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Cahernaleague, 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
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cahernaleague with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.
The townland
- Name
- Cahernaleague · Cathair na Léige
- Area
- 1,770,631 m² (177.06 ha, 437.53 acres)
- Civil parish
- Seskinan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Decies Without Drum
- Electoral division
- Seskinan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 464 people lived in 176 households in the Seskinan electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynamult, Boolavonteen, Caherbrack, Tooraneena
- Placenames
- Cahernaleague 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.