Cappataggle

112 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cappataggle, from 38 m² to 76,786 m² (7.68 ha, 18.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Cappataggle 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.

• 24 Sept 2026N/a

  for the proposed extension to the existing 40 metre lattice tower providing new overall height of 47.5 metres, the removal of the existing 47.5 metre guyed tower, the relocation of equipment transferred from the existing 47.5 metre guyed tower to the proposed extended lattice tower and the addition of new telecommunications antennas, dishes and associated equipment on the proposed extended lattice tower, and all associated site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2661606

• 6 Apr 2025Conditional

  to install a new wastewater treatment system with all associated site development works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2560384

• 20 Mar 2025N/a

  to install a new wastewater treatment system with all associated site development works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2560296

• 27 Sept 2023Conditional

  for proposed domestic dwelling, domestic garage, treatment plant, percolation area with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361156

• 30 Sept 2022Conditional

  to install a ground mounted 130 kWh PV array system (approximately 300 photovoltaic panels) adjacent to the existing toll plaza building to supplement its current energy use, works to include PV mounting system, PV array, security fencing and all associated ancillary works.at

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260984

• 8 Oct 2021Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 249.82 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211875

• 6 Oct 2021Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit with percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 2332.1 sqm, 51.4 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211836

• 10 Mar 2021Conditional

  for a change of location of a Slatted Shed with Calf Creep Area and Ancillary Concrete, previously granted on Application 20/1259. Gross floor space of proposed works: 225 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 21330

• 8 Dec 2020Refused

  to erect a new entrance to my dwelling house and to construct all ancillary site works to facilitate same.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 201862

• 7 Sept 2020Conditional

  to construct a slatted shed with calf creep area and ancillary concrete and an extension to the existing silage slab. Gross floor space of proposed work; 264sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 201259

• 17 Jul 2020Conditional

  to construct a three bay single Loose shed, Dungstead and Seepage tank. Gross floor space of proposed works: 141.2 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 20979

• 28 Jun 2019Conditional

  for the construction of a Juvenile Playing Pitch (120m x 75m) beside the existing Astro Turf Playing Pitch in the adjacent field west of Cappataggle Primary School

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191002

• 2 Oct 2018N/a

  for the construction of a Juvenile Playing Pitch (120m x 75m) and smaller training area (28m x 45m) beside the existing Astro Turf Playing Pitch in the adjacent field west of Cappataggle Primary School.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 181380

• 20 Sept 2018Conditional

  for the construction of a 400sqm. community building to the rear of the existing hurling wall at the astroturf pitch to facilitate dressing rooms, play rooms, toilet facilities, general purpose room, ball alley, storage rooms and septic tank. Gross floor space of proposed works - 400 sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 181321

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cappataggle.

Recorded monuments

• GA098-046 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On a rise in grassland. Poorly preserved irregularly shaped CBG (E-W 12m, N-S 3m) defined by a scarp at E, and at N and S by the natural slope; from SW through W to NW quarrying has disturbed the monument. The majority of the grave-markers consist of small moss-covered limestone blocks aligned N-S The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA098-047 Church
  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.

• GA098-048 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In undulating grassland. Very poorly preserved circular rath (D 42m) defined by a bank from W through N to NE, and elsewhere by a scarp. A shallow depression at E separates the rath from a possibly later rectangular earthwork (E-W; L 23.5, Wth 17m) defined by a degraded earthen bank. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA098-048001 Enclosure
  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.

• GA098-050 Quarry
  Description

  A hachured feature marked on the 1933 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1986 to be a disused quarry. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 8 August 2014

Architectural heritage

• Saint Michael's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted Roman Catholic church, built c.1840, having four-bay nave, gabled entrance porch to west gable, and shallow advance to east, with three-bay gabled sacristy also to east, and side aisles expressed internally only. Pitched slate roofs with render cross finials to nave, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted roughcast rendered walls with smooth render plinth, and having render panel to front gable. Pointed arch window openings to nave with render hood-mouldings, painted sills, and timber Y-tracery with stained-glass windows. Circular windows to east and west gables with hood moulding to that of eastern, with stained-glass windows. Pointed arch window opening to porch with stained-glass window. Square-headed window openings to sacristy, having fixed-pane windows. Square-headed door openings in each side of porch, having double-leaf timber battened doors with multi-pane leaded overlights. Interior having decorative plastered ceiling, timber gallery with cast-iron spiral staircase, and recent timber altar furniture. Round-arch arcades forming side aisles, set on circular-profile piers, with pilaster responds to east end, and with elliptical-profile piers supporting gallery, and engaged columns to west end. Decorative leaded coloured glass windows, with stained-glass windows to east and west elevations and east bay of south aisle. Set in lawned grounds. Freestanding recent bellcote, with bell dated 1845. Priest’s grave with carved crucifix grave marker to site. Site entrance to west comprising square-profile rendered piers with double-leaf cast-iron gates, with stile set in flanking boundary wall. Former presbytery to south built c.1920. Rendered boundary walls, with wrought-iron pedestrian gate to north-east, giving access from church to presbytery grounds, and with double-leaf wrought-iron gates to roadside to north-west, with rendered square-profile piers, giving access to presbytery.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Cappataggle, 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 Cappataggle.

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.

No address of the register names Cappataggle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Cappataggle · Ceapaigh an tSeagail

Area

1,576,061 m² (157.61 ha, 389.45 acres)

Civil parish

Killallaghtan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilconnell

Electoral division

Killallaghtan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

512 people lived in 178 households in the Killallaghtan electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynaclogh, Cartronsheela, Doonaree, Gortnahimrissan, Gortnahoon, Mountain, Pollatlugga, Rooaun, Tooree

Placenames

Cappataggle 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.