Cappalaheen
Townland in the civil parish of Clonlea, barony of Tulla Lower, Co. Clare; in Irish Ceapach Fhlaithín
- Area
- 150.5 ha
- 372 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 7,980 m² (0.8 ha, 1.97 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cappalaheen, from 1,047 m² to 265,028 m² (26.5 ha, 65.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cappalaheen 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
26 Jun 2025Conditional
to construct a dwelling house and garage, with effluent treatment system, new entrance from public road, and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 25208
28 Oct 2022N/a
for the following works, (A) Demolish an existing fire damaged dwelling and attached shed, (B) Construct a replacement dwelling house, with new effluent treatment system and (C) Construct new agricultural entrance and farm road accessing the land and farm buildings to the rear of the site, all with associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 22977
27 Sept 2022Conditional
to construct a storey and half dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system/percolation area, bored well, site entrance and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 22867
18 Jul 2022N/a
to construct a storey and a half dwelling house domestic garage, wastewater treatment system/percolation area, bored well, site entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 22650
3 Nov 2021Conditional
to construct new dwelling house, private garage, new entrance, sewerage treatment facilities and all associated works along with all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 211156
9 Sept 2021Conditional
to construct a single storey extension to the side of existing dwelling house, and to use part of dwelling as a granny flat, all with associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 21952
19 Apr 2021Conditional
to construct a dwelling house and garage, with effluent treatment system, new entrance from the public road, and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 21365
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 Cappalaheen.
Recorded monuments
- CL043-031 Enclosure
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 Cappalaheen.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cappalaheen.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Cappalaheen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Cappalaheen · Ceapach Fhlaithín
- Area
- 1,504,575 m² (150.46 ha, 371.79 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonlea, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tulla Lower
- Electoral division
- Kyle, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kyle electoral division: 337 people in 122 households; 88% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clashduff, Cloonloum More, Coolistoonan, Derrymore East, Knockatinty, Knockatloe, Knockatooreen, Lakyle
- Placenames
- Cappalaheen 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.