Cappaluane
Cappaluane is a townland in the civil parish of Clonfert, barony of Longford, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Ceapaigh an Leamháin.
- Area
- 16.8 ha
- 42 acres
- Land parcels
- 5
- registered freehold, median 19,343 m² (1.93 ha, 4.78 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cappaluane, from 1,588 m² to 91,868 m² (9.19 ha, 22.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 6 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cappaluane 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
6 Jul 2020Conditional
to construct a six bay double slatted cubicle unit with roofed collecting yard, milking parlour, dairy and plant room. Gross floor space of proposed development: 681 msq
Permission · Galway County Council, 20874
8 Apr 2020N/a
Construction of a six bay double slatted cubicle unit with roofed collecting yard, milking parlor, dairy & plant room. Gross floor space of proposed works 681sqm
Permission · Galway County Council, 20452
27 Mar 2018Conditional
for construction of a) new dwelling, b) domestic garage/store, c) treatment system with percolation area, d) new site entrance and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 258 sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18369
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 Cappaluane.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cappaluane.
Architectural heritage
- The Vicarage, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey L-plan glebe house over basement, built c.1820, having gabled porch to front (south) elevation, return to rear, and further two-bay block projecting from re-entrant corner. Now in use as house. Hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls, smooth rendered walls to basement level, and cut limestone plinth course. Square-headed window openings with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows, multi-pane casement windows with coloured glass to porch, all having cut limestone sills. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door approached by flight of cut limestone steps with rendered retaining walls having cut limestone copings. Yard to rear, with renovated outbuilding having hipped slate roof, rendered walls and square-headed openings with replacement timber fittings. Rubble stone piers and boundary walls to yard. Site entrance to west with panelled monolithic square-plan cut limestone piers with panelled pyramidal caps, decorative wrought-iron farm gate, and rubble stone flanking walls.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Cappaluane, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cappaluane.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cappaluane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Cappaluane · Ceapaigh an Leamháin
- Area
- 168,234 m² (16.82 ha, 41.57 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonfert, and its townlands
- Barony
- Longford
- Electoral division
- Meelick, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 296 people lived in 100 households in the Meelick electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Abbeyland Great, Eyrecourt Demesne, Keenaghan
- Placenames
- Cappaluane 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.