Cappamore
Townland in the civil parish of Kilcrohane, barony of Dunkerron South, Co. Kerry; in Irish An Cheapaigh Mhóir
- Area
- 111 ha
- 274 acres
- Land parcels
- 2
- registered freehold, median 556,510 m² (55.65 ha, 137.52 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cappamore, from 11,384 m² (1.14 ha, 2.81 acres) to 1,101,637 m² (110.16 ha, 272.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 6 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
No zone of a development plan covers Cappamore 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
19 Dec 2025Refused
(A) a change of use of an existing sheep shed for proposed residential use, and (B) Permission for elevation changes to the existing structure and proposed extension to the existing structure to provide a single storey dwelling serviced with a new mechanical treatment unit and raised sand polishing filter, all with associated site works.
Permission · Kerry County Council, 25303
21 Oct 2020Conditional
DEMOLISH AND RE-CONSTRUCT ON THE SAME FOOTPRINT OF THE ORIGINAL PART OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE; AS PERTAINING TO APPROVED PLANNING REF NO 19/864, ALL LOCATED AT
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20999
15 Aug 2019Conditional
(A) CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, ATTACHED TO AND WITHIN THE EXISTING COMPLEX OF BUILDINGS, (B) DEMOLITION OF INSITU EXTENSIONS TO EXISTING ON SITE STONE DWELLING / FARMHOUSE AND USE OF REMAINING STRUCTURE AS A SEPARATE ANNEX WITH A BEDROOM, GAMES ROOM AND STORE, ALL ANCILLARY TO THE NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF SMALL LEAN-TO EXTENSION TO SAME ANNEX CONTAINING A TOILET, (C) DEMOLITION OF INSITU EXTENSION AND OPEN SIDED STORAGE AREA TO EXISTING ON SITE STUDIO ANNEX, (D) DEMOLITION OF OVERHANGING CANOPY TO EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE, (E) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING ON SITE STORAGE SHED AND 2 NO. AGRICULTURAL SHEDS, (F) CONSTRUCTION OF NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, NATURA IMPACT ASSESSMENT (NIS) WAS SUBMITTED.
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19864
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: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC 000365
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment 000365
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cappamore.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cappamore.
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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cappamore.
- 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 Cappamore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Cappamore · An Cheapaigh Mhóir
- Area
- 1,110,486 m² (111.05 ha, 274.41 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcrohane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dunkerron South
- Electoral division
- Ballybrack, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballybrack electoral division: 102 people in 41 households; 71% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 29% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 27% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Inchfarrannagleragh Glebe, Raheen, Shanaknock
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Cappamore 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.