Cappaghcastle
Cappaghcastle is a townland in the civil parish of Kilfinaghta, barony of Bunratty Lower, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is Ceapach an Chaisleáin.
- Area
- 30.7 ha
- 76 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 2,115 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres)
- Zoning
- O2
- Cluster
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cappaghcastle, from 987 m² to 288,514 m² (28.85 ha, 71.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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
- O2Cluster (General)
Cappa Sixmilebridge Cluster, Clare · 9 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
25 Mar 2026Conditional
to retain (x2) sheds to the rear of the dwelling house
Retention · Clare County Council, 2660182
30 Sept 2024Conditional
of a single storey kitchen extension and sheds to the rear of property
Retention · Clare County Council, 24309
6 Feb 2020Conditional
the development consists of the construction of a new slatted cubicle house and associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 2067
28 Mar 2018Conditional
to construct a private dwelling house, garage, entrance, domestic wastewater treatment system with polishing filter along with all associated site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 18238
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 Cappaghcastle.
Recorded monuments
- CL052-051 Castle - unclassified
Description
See attached document with details from Risteárd Ua Cróinín and Martin Breen, The Castles and Tower-houses of Co. Clare (unpublished report). Uploaded courtesy of R. Ua Cróinín and M. Breen. Date of upload: 18 December 2014
- CL052-054 Ritual site - holy well
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cappaghcastle.
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 Cappaghcastle, about 1 in 10 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_810 (ZIP).
- 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 Cappaghcastle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Cappaghcastle · Ceapach an Chaisleáin
- Area
- 307,203 m² (30.72 ha, 75.91 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilfinaghta, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bunratty Lower
- Electoral division
- Sixmilebridge, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,887 people lived in 994 households in the Sixmilebridge electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cappagh South, Cappaghlodge, Newpark, Rossmanagher
- Placenames
- Cappaghcastle 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.