Cappagh

62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cappagh, from 88 m² to 1,004,395 m² (100.44 ha, 248.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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 Cappagh 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 Jun 2023Conditional

  (A) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE DUE TO DEFECTIVE BLOCKS, AND (B) ERECTION OF REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350794

• 5 Oct 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETORY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151969

• 30 Jul 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A FARM MACHINERY STORAGE BUILDING

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151535

• 12 Jul 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151377

• 16 Dec 2020N/a

  (1) DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING EXTENTION TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING HOUSE (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF THE HOUSE AND RAISING THE ROOF HEIGHT AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051933

• 4 Dec 2018Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851839

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Slieve League SAC 000189
• Special Protection Area: West Donegal Coast SPA 004150
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slieve League 000189

Recorded monuments

• DG096-014 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  This monument, known locally as 'Uaigh an Fhada', is c. 800m N of the coastal cliff running W from Teelin Bay to Carrigan Head. It stands on boggy ground c. 10m S of the steep rocky face of a ridge of higher ground. The site looks S toward the coast, but elsewhere low hills restrict the outlook. A chamber measuring c. 3.5m long (NNE-SSW) and c. 2m wide survives here in a grass-grown mound, the original outline of which is unclear. The mound survives all around the chamber, except to the N; it now measures 11m N-S by 10.5m E-W and rises to a maximum height of 1m. A field wall crossing the site runs along the E side of the chamber and links two other walls that run approximately E-W along the northern and southern extremities of the mound. The chamber is open to the N, but it is not clear whether a gap here, 0.9m wide, represents an original entrance. The E side of the chamber, overlain by the later field wall, is slightly bellied in outline. The northernmost stone at this side is set transversely to the main axis of the chamber. This stone is l.1m high and, though now somewhat loose in the ground, appears to be in situ. The outer faces of the next three orthostats are concealed. Their heights from N to S are 0.2m, 0.35m and 0.45m. The last has a flat inner face and appears to have a sloping outer face. Beside it is a stone 0.5m high. The base of this stone is exposed at the S, where the ground dips, and it is not clear whether it is in situ. Three stones remain of the western side of the chamber. The northernmost one, slightly skewed, is 0.85m high. Approximately 0.15m W of and parallel to this is a low stone, possibly detached from it. This is 0.45m high. Beyond this, at the edge of the mound, are two partly concealed slabs rising 0.2m above ground level. These do not seem to be structural stones. The second orthostat on this side is 0.55m high. The third orthostat, set inside the line of the second, is 0.5m high. A small slab, its outer end concealed by the mound, rests on the N end of this in the manner of a corbel. It measures 0.6m by at least 0.3m and is 0.15-0.2m thick. Two set stones next to each other mark the S end of the chamber. The eastern one is a tall flat-topped slab, 0.9m high. The western one, c. 0.6m high, is slightly gabled in outline. The letters 'TC' have been set in relief using concrete on the top of this stone. At its W end is a partly buried stone, at least 0.5m in maximum dimension, which may be detached from it. It is not clear whether the two set stones at this end represent the original back of the structure. Just over 3m NE of the front of the chamber a firmly set stone rises 0.15m above the surface of the mound. Its status is uncertain. This monument has been listed as a court tomb (Ó Nualláin 1983a), but it became clear after clearance and planning that this classification could not be confirmed. Nevertheless, certain features find their closest parallels in court tombs. The two stones at either side of the gap at the N end may be entrance jambs or segmenting jambs of a court tomb gallery. The outline of the E side, though not mirrored at the W side, recalls the bellied shape of some court tomb chambers, and the two stones at the S end of the structure may represent a jamb and sill arrangement. Although there can be little doubt that this is a megalithic tomb, it must remain unclassified. Ó Nualláin 1983a, 18, no. 9; SMR 1987, 96:14; Ó Nualláin 1989, 142; RMP 1995, 96:14. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Date of upload: 22 September 2008 See linked document with details from Eamon Cody, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI. County Donegal. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002)

• DG096-034 Field boundary
  Description

  Situated on N facing slope of heather covered mountain overlooking Teelin Bay to the E. In area of cut-away bog are the remains of a relict field wall (H 0.4-0.6m; T 1m) that extends c. 50m in a general N-S direction. The field wall consists of a line of low orthostats protruding above the surface of the bog with spreads of loosely piled rubble forming a spread of stone around the orthostats. A cluster of 19th century turf stands can be seen in close proximity to this pre-bog field wall.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Cappagh, 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 high, 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 Cappagh.

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 Cappagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Cappagh · An Cheapach

Area

1,428,051 m² (142.81 ha, 352.88 acres)

Civil parish

Glencolumbkille, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

West Donegal, the unit of the census

Census 2022

732 people lived in 273 households in the West Donegal electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 19% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Croaghlin, Lergadaghtan, Shanbally, Ummerawirrinan

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Cappagh 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.