Cappasallagh
Cappasallagh is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmalinoge, barony of Longford, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is An Cheapach Shalach.
- Area
- 257.4 ha
- 636 acres
- Land parcels
- 105
- registered freehold, median 7,093 m² (0.71 ha, 1.75 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
105 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cappasallagh, from 407 m² to 408,215 m² (40.82 ha, 100.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Cappasallagh 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
No planning application touches the townland of Cappasallagh in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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
- Special Area of Conservation: River Shannon Callows SAC 000216
- Special Protection Area: Middle Shannon Callows SPA 004096
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: River Shannon Callows 000216
Recorded monuments
- GA118-013 House - 18th/19th century
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- GA118-015 Quarry
Description
This is a disused gravel pit. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 26 August 2015
- GA118-017 Barrow - ring-barrow
Description
On a rise in pastureland within the former demesne of Earlstown House. This roughly circular ring-barrow (diam. 14.2m), in fair condition, is defined by a flat-topped earthen mound (diam. 10m; H 0.3m) which is surrounded by a fosse and a low external bank. Several mature trees are growing on the mound. Two tree ring enclosures lie c. 50m to SE and NW. The barrow may have been reused as a landscape feature. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 12 August 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cappasallagh.
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 Cappasallagh, 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. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1382 (ZIP).
- 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 Cappasallagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Cappasallagh · An Cheapach Shalach
- Area
- 2,574,426 m² (257.44 ha, 636.15 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmalinoge, and its townlands
- Barony
- Longford
- Electoral division
- Kilmalinoge, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 221 people lived in 86 households in the Kilmalinoge electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Derryhiveny South, Gortaha, Gortawullaun, Gortyneill, Sheeaun
- Placenames
- Cappasallagh 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.