# Cappaghcon, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballynakill (Loughrea Ra), barony of Leitrim, Co. Galway; in Irish Ceapaigh an Chonnaidh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 369,975 m² (37 ha, 91.42 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 118,900 m² (11.89 ha, 29.38 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballynakill (Loughrea Ra), https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/ballynakill-loughrea-ra.md - Barony: Leitrim - Electoral division: Ballynagar, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 217 people lived in 81 households in the Ballynagar electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/19639 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 60843 - Centre: latitude 53.075539, longitude -8.41232 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cappaghcon, from 10,050 m² (1 ha, 2.48 acres) to 240,486 m² (24.05 ha, 59.43 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 4892544: 240,486 m² (24.05 ha, 59.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4892544.md - Parcel 1951540: 118,900 m² (11.89 ha, 29.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1951540.md - Parcel 1999778: 10,050 m² (1 ha, 2.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1999778.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Cappaghcon 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 Cappaghcon in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA, site code 004168, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004168 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA125-155: Mine, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA125-155----. According to local information, this was formerly a mine and the source of iron ore that was used in the ironworks (GA125-152----) near Woodford town (pers. comm. K. Flaherty 1993). A small cave, the entrance of which is partially blocked, is visible. Not visited. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 13 July 2017 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cappaghcon. ## 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 Cappaghcon, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cappaghcon. - 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/cappaghcon.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/cappaghcon.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/cappaghcon.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Cappaghcon 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) - Cappaghcon East: https://everytownland.com/galway/cappaghcon-east.md - Cappaghconbeg: https://everytownland.com/galway/cappaghconbeg.md - Coarseparks: https://everytownland.com/galway/coarseparks.md - Commons East: https://everytownland.com/galway/commons-east.md - Drumminnamuckla North: https://everytownland.com/galway/drumminnamuckla-north.md - Mountainpark: https://everytownland.com/galway/mountainpark.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/cappaghcon - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/cappaghcon