# Cappaghcastle, Co. Clare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilfinaghta, barony of Bunratty Lower, Co. Clare; in Irish Ceapach an Chaisleáin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 307,203 m² (30.72 ha, 75.91 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,115 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): O2 Cluster, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilfinaghta, https://everytownland.com/clare/parish/kilfinaghta.md - Barony: Bunratty Lower - Electoral division: Sixmilebridge, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Clare, https://everytownland.com/clare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/6445 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 30523 - Centre: latitude 52.727376, longitude -8.788009 (WGS 84) ## 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); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2764211: 288,514 m² (28.85 ha, 71.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2764211.md - Parcel 1511296: 2,399 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1511296.md - Parcel 5544173: 2,386 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5544173.md - Parcel 1449576: 2,312 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1449576.md - Parcel 2764180: 2,142 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2764180.md - Parcel 2756623: 2,115 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2756623.md - Parcel 1456184: 1,895 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1456184.md - Parcel 6054334: 1,861 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6054334.md - Parcel 1513863: 1,447 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1513863.md - Parcel 2705816: 1,226 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2705816.md - Parcel 1444788: 987 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1444788.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - O2 Cluster (General): Cappa Sixmilebridge Cluster, Clare; 9 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://clarecdp2023-2029.clarecoco.ie/stage3-amendments/adoption/volume-1-written-statement-clare-county-development-plan-2023-2029-51406.pdf#page=97 ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 25 Mar 2026, Clare County Council 2660182: Conditional. Retention. to retain (x2) sheds to the rear of the dwelling house. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660182/0 - 30 Sept 2024, Clare County Council 24309: Conditional. Retention. of a single storey kitchen extension and sheds to the rear of property. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/24309/0 - 6 Feb 2020, Clare County Council 2067: Conditional. Permission. the development consists of the construction of a new slatted cubicle house and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2067/0 - 28 Mar 2018, Clare County Council 18238: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a private dwelling house, garage, entrance, domestic wastewater treatment system with polishing filter along with all associated site works and services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/18238/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cappaghcastle. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CL052-051: Castle - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL052-051----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL052-054----. 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. 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cappaghcastle. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_810.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/clare/cappaghcastle.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/clare/cappaghcastle.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/clare/cappaghcastle.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/clare.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Cappagh South: https://everytownland.com/clare/cappagh-south.md - Cappaghlodge: https://everytownland.com/clare/cappaghlodge.md - Newpark: https://everytownland.com/clare/newpark-31942.md - Rossmanagher: https://everytownland.com/clare/rossmanagher.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/clare/cappaghcastle - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/clare/cappaghcastle