Capparoe
Townland in the civil parish of Templenoe, barony of Dunkerron South, Co. Kerry; in Irish An Cheapaigh Rua
- Area
- 150.9 ha
- 373 acres
- Land parcels
- 37
- registered freehold, median 3,448 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Capparoe, from 15 m² to 182,300 m² (18.23 ha, 45.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Capparoe 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
4 Mar 2026Conditional
Retention permission to (a) retain the change of use of a living room to use as a bedroom and ensuite bathroom within the existing dwelling house, (b) Retention permission to retain minor alterations to windows, (c) Retention permission to retain the existing dwelling house, garden shed, all associated site services and ancillary site works as located within revised site boundaries
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2660190
29 Jan 2026Conditional
change of use from hostel to private dwelling from 01/10/2026
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2612
22 Feb 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCT EXTENSIONS TO THEIR EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, MAKE ALTERATIONS TO THEIR EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND RETAIN THE EXISTING SHED ON THE SITE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 2 homes · Kerry County Council, 23188
3 May 2022Conditional
(A) RETAIN THE TWO STOREY EXTENSION AT THE SIDE OF HOUSE, SUNROOM EXTENSION TO AT THE FRONT OF THE HOUSE AND THE UTILITY ROOM EXTENSION AT THE FRONT OF HOUSE (B) PERMISSION TO DEMOLISH THE SUNROOM AND UTILITY ROOM EXTENSIONS AND PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW LIVING ROOM AND KITCHEN EXTENSION IN THEIR PLACE AND (C) PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF THE DWELLING HOUSE
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22451
6 Jul 2021Conditional
CARRY OUT MODIFICATIONS AND CONSTRUCT EXTENSION TO DWELLING
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21751
20 Jul 2020Refused
RETAIN AND COMPLETE ALTERATIONS MADE TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN ENCLOSURE TO AN EXISTING BALCONY AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20645
23 Dec 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE WEST OF OUR EXISTING DWELLING; PERMISSION FOR INTERNAL MODIFICATIONS TO BOTH THE GROUND AND FIRST FLOOR LAYOUTS AND ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS; PERMISSION TO DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF A REPLACEMENT WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM COMPRISING OF MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT, INTERMITTENT FILTER AND POLISHING FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 191329
25 Sept 2019Conditional
(A) DEMOLISH THE EXISTING RUINED DWELLING HOUSE (B) CONSTRUCT A NEW STOREY AND A HALF STYLE DWELLING HOUSE (C) INSTALL A TRICEL NOVO WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT FOLLOWED BY A TRICEL SANDCEL SAND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 191002
5 Sept 2019Conditional
RETAIN ALTERATIONS MADE TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN ENCLOSURE TO AN EXISTING BALCONY AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19931
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: Blackwater River (Kerry) SAC 002173
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Capparoe.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Capparoe.
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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Capparoe.
- 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 Capparoe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Capparoe · An Cheapaigh Rua
- Area
- 1,508,630 m² (150.86 ha, 372.79 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templenoe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dunkerron South
- Electoral division
- Dromore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dromore electoral division: 308 people in 120 households; 87% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 18% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cappanacush West, Coomnakilla South, Dromore, Lackeen
- Placenames
- Capparoe 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.