Cappanabornia
Townland in the civil parish of St. Nicholas, barony of Galway, Co. Galway; in Irish Ceapach na Boirne
- Area
- 5.2 ha
- 13 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 1,092 m²
- Zoning
- P1
- Agriculture
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cappanabornia, from 441 m² to 16,154 m² (1.62 ha, 3.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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
- P1Agriculture
Galway City Development Plan 2023 - 2029, Galway · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R3Residential (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
Galway City Development Plan 2023 - 2029, Galway · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
20 Jan 2025Conditional
for the proposed development within County Galway will comprise: •the replacement (“restringing”) of the existing OHL circuit conductor wires with a new higher capacity conductor; •Replace tower in situ at 1no. location;•Retain towers at 3no. locations including foundation strengthening with bar member replacement at 2 locations;•Replace polesets at 15no. locations;•the replacement of insulating and ancillary hardware at structures;•all associated temporary site development works to gain access to the existing structures including vegetation clearance and management, disassembly and reassembly of gate posts/piers and removal and reinstatement of existing fencing; and •other temporary associated and ancillary site development works required for the purpose of the uprate of the existing circuit, including construction compounds, silt traps, silt fences, vegetation clearance and management, stone tracks, ground protection mats, infrastructure crossing support systems (i.e. guard poles) and temporary watercourse crossings. Where required, an aerial catenary stringing system (ACSS) will be used to facilitate stringing operations over major obstacles, e.g. busy national roads, wide rivers, etc. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application
Permission · Galway County Council, 2560052
16 Dec 2022Refused
to install a temporary coffee dock for a period of 3 years on lands adjacent to existing commercial premises to include signage and associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works 13.95 sqm.
Permission · Galway County Council, 221238
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 Cappanabornia.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cappanabornia.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cappanabornia.
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_495 (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 Cappanabornia with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Cappanabornia · Ceapach na Boirne
- Area
- 52,304 m² (5.23 ha, 12.92 acres)
- Civil parish
- St. Nicholas, and its townlands
- Barony
- Galway
- Electoral division
- Ballintemple, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballintemple electoral division: 1,609 people in 566 households; 78% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballygarraun, Pollkeen
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Cappanabornia 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.