Kippaunagh
Kippaunagh is a townland in the civil parish of Dunmore, barony of Ballymoe, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Ceapánach.
- Area
- 110.8 ha
- 274 acres
- Land parcels
- 111
- registered freehold, median 2,683 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
111 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kippaunagh, from 13 m² to 99,039 m² (9.9 ha, 24.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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 Kippaunagh 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
22 Aug 2026N/a
of (1) extension to front of existing dwelling house, (2) detached one bedroom apartment and (3) shed/store and all associated site works
Retention, 2 homes · Galway County Council, 2661437
10 Jun 2026Refused
to construct agricultural store adjacent to farm yard & retention permission for domestic store/garage/fuel store to rear of existing dwelling, associated works & services
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 26137
4 Jul 2023Conditional
to construct a new dwellinghouse with wastewater treatment plant, percolation area, domestic garage & all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360742
4 Jul 2023Conditional
to construct a new dwellinghouse with wastewater treatment plant, percolation area, domestic garage & all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360743
24 Jan 2020Conditional
to demolish part of the existing front wall, construct a new car park with pick up / drop off facilities and all ancillary site works
Permission · Galway County Council, 2075
20 Dec 2019Conditional
to construct a new dwelling house, garage, treatment unit, percolation area, associated site works and services. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 174.7 sqm, Garage - 36 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191999
21 Sept 2018Conditional
to construct dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works, 235.20sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181335
25 Apr 2018Conditional
to construct dwelling house, domestic garage and fuel store, wastewater treatment system, percolation area and associated siteworks. Gross floor space of proposed works 214.40 sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18499
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 Kippaunagh.
Recorded monuments
- GA031-069 Architectural feature
Description
This mantle stone was originally located over a fireplace in Park Castle (GA018-058----) which was the home of the Mac Egans, hereditary brehons of the O Conors of Connacht (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 267). It is now incorporated into one of the walls of the National School in Clonbern. The stone is dated 1627 and bears an inscription in Irish which translates ‘Cormac Mac Aodhagáin made this work at the time of the age of the Lord, one thousand six hundred and twenty seven’ (information from Prof. E. FitzPatrick 20 March 2019). (Melvin c. 1971, 12-13) Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 28 March 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kippaunagh.
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 Kippaunagh, about 1 in 5 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 Kippaunagh.
- 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 Kippaunagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Kippaunagh · Ceapánach
- Area
- 1,108,465 m² (110.85 ha, 273.91 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dunmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballymoe
- Electoral division
- Raheen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 525 people lived in 195 households in the Raheen electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cappantruhaun, Clonbern, Cogaula, Lerhin, Timadooaun
- Placenames
- Kippaunagh 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.