Cappafeean

41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cappafeean, from 77 m² to 139,201 m² (13.92 ha, 34.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Cappafeean 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 Apr 2026Conditional

  for refurbishment and alterations, and construction of an extension to an existing dwelling house along with all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660211

• 15 Nov 2024Conditional

  of the extension to the southern gable, the bay window to the northern elevation and a front porch to the existing dwelling

  Retention · Clare County Council, 24382

• 24 Oct 2024N/a

  to RETAIN the extension to the southern gable, the bay window to the northern elevation and a front porch to the existing dwelling

  Retention · Clare County Council, 24350

• 4 Oct 2024N/a

  to RETAIN the extension to the southern gable, the bay window to the northern elevation and a front porch to the existing dwelling

  Retention · Clare County Council, 24317

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Inchicronan Lough 000038

Recorded monuments

• CL026-020001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Towards the N end of a N-S ridge. Listed as 'Burial Ground' in the RMP (1996). A circular grass-covered area (int. dim. 20m NE-SW) defined by a kerb of 23 stones (0.55m x 0.3m; H 0.2m to 1.6m x 1m; H 0.8m) SW-NE and slight traces of a perimeter elsewhere (diam. 11m NW-SE). It has been damaged and no grave-markers are now evident. (Lenihan 1992, 28; Coffey 1993, 67) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 2 May 2017

• CL026-020002 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  At the W edge of a small S-N stream. A circular stone-lined area (int. diam. 1.4m; D 0.9m) defined by a drystone wall (Wth 0.3m; ext. H 0.4m). A mature sycamore 2m to the W has votive offerings and may have formed part of rounds at this well. A children's burial ground (CL026-020001-) is c. 50m to the SW. (Frost 1893, 49; Lenihan 1992, 28-9) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 2 May 2017

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cappafeean.

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 Cappafeean, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Cappafeean with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Cappafeean · An Cheapach Fhiáin

Area

1,518,488 m² (151.85 ha, 375.23 acres)

Civil parish

Inchicronan, and its townlands

Barony

Bunratty Upper

Electoral division

Toberbreeda, the unit of the census

Census 2022

185 people lived in 65 households in the Toberbreeda electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynagranagh, Ballyogan, Ballyscanlan, Bearnafunshin, Inchicronan Island, Knockaloaghan, Knocknamucky

Placenames

Cappafeean 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.