Cappagh

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cappagh, from 278 m² to 192,592 m² (19.26 ha, 47.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; 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.

• 11 Jul 2025Conditional

  to construct a three bay slatted cattle shed & machinery shed. Gross floor space of proposed works: 410 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 25171

• 18 Dec 2020Conditional

  for alterations to bungalow with additional first floor level with sunroom to the side, wastewater treatment system and associated works and a 3 bay shed

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201984

• 29 Jun 2017Conditional

  of dairy goat sheds, underground effluent tank and hardcore area and for planning permission to construct a dungstead (gross floor space retention 1332sqm; proposed 223sqm0

  Retention · Galway County Council, 17952

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cappagh.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cappagh.

Architectural heritage

• Cappagh Bridge, bridge, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road bridge over Cappagh River, built c.1860. Rock-faced rusticated limestone walls, parapet walls and copings, with rubble limestone approach walls. Segmental arch with tooled limestone voussoirs, dressed limestone piers and soffit.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cappagh.

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.

No address of the register names Cappagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Cappagh · Na Ceapacha

Area

1,664,126 m² (166.41 ha, 411.21 acres)

Civil parish

Tynagh, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Ballyglass, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballyglass electoral division: 179 people in 67 households; 89% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyglass, Cloonmoylan, Crannagh, Easterfield, Kylemore, Moannakeeba West

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.