# Capira, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Lickmolassy, barony of Longford, Co. Galway; in Irish Ceapaigh Oighre. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 826,589 m² (82.66 ha, 204.25 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 26,544 m² (2.65 ha, 6.56 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Lickmolassy, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/lickmolassy.md - Barony: Longford - Electoral division: Portumna, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 2,504 people lived in 964 households in the Portumna electoral division. 64% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/21226 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 60823 - Centre: latitude 53.131779, longitude -8.236337 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Capira, from 427 m² to 265,969 m² (26.6 ha, 65.72 acres); 25 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2004455: 265,969 m² (26.6 ha, 65.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2004455.md - Parcel 2004450: 138,860 m² (13.89 ha, 34.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2004450.md - Parcel 1947264: 112,687 m² (11.27 ha, 27.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1947264.md - Parcel 1947265: 73,202 m² (7.32 ha, 18.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1947265.md - Parcel 2004452: 69,714 m² (6.97 ha, 17.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2004452.md - Parcel 1947262: 69,689 m² (6.97 ha, 17.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1947262.md - Parcel 2004448: 27,911 m² (2.79 ha, 6.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2004448.md - Parcel 1947263: 25,178 m² (2.52 ha, 6.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1947263.md - Parcel 2004449: 24,048 m² (2.4 ha, 5.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2004449.md - Parcel 1947261: 10,633 m² (1.06 ha, 2.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1947261.md - Parcel 2004451: 3,949 m² (0.39 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2004451.md - Parcel 2004453: 3,219 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2004453.md - Parcel 2489519: 1,461 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2489519.md - Parcel 2581521: 427 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2581521.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Capira in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Capira in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Natural Heritage Area: Capira/Derrew Bog NHA, site code 001240, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/nha/001240 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Capira. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Capira. ## 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 Capira, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Capira. - 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/galway/capira.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/capira.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/capira.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Capira with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballynew: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballynew-60464.md - Cooldorragha: https://everytownland.com/galway/cooldorragha-61427.md - Derrew: https://everytownland.com/galway/derrew-61748.md - Gortrea or Fairfield: https://everytownland.com/galway/gortrea-or-fairfield.md - Kilmalinoge: https://everytownland.com/galway/kilmalinoge.md - Oldstreet: https://everytownland.com/galway/oldstreet.md - Sheeaunrush: https://everytownland.com/galway/sheeaunrush.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/galway/capira - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/capira