Cappagh Beg
Townland in the civil parish of Killinny, barony of Kiltartan, Co. Galway; in Irish An Cheapach Bheag
- Area
- 99.3 ha
- 245 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 5,636 m² (0.56 ha, 1.39 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cappagh Beg, from 521 m² to 544,076 m² (54.41 ha, 134.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 Cappagh Beg 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
21 Apr 2022Conditional
for the construction of a dwellinghouse, domestic garage, proprietary treatment system and percolation area and for all ancillary services and site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 171 sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260382
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 Cappagh Beg.
Recorded monuments
- GA122-039 Children's burial ground
Description
On an E-facing slope in gently undulating pastureland. This burial ground consists of an unenclosed pear-shaped area (18.8m ESE-WNW; 12.3m NNE-SSW) within which a number of set stones are aligned NNE-SSW, indicating graves aligned WNW-ESE. It may be a children's burial ground. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 27 January 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cappagh Beg.
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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_578 (ZIP).
- 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 Cappagh Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Cappagh Beg · An Cheapach Bheag
- Area
- 993,151 m² (99.32 ha, 245.41 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killinny, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kiltartan
- Electoral division
- Killinny, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killinny electoral division: 492 people in 169 households; 91% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cahererillan, Cappagh More, Carrowkilleen, Gortnaglogh, Gortskeagh, Moy
- Placenames
- Cappagh Beg 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.