Cappagh
Cappagh is a townland in the civil parish of Aghaboe, barony of Clandonagh, Co. Laois. Its name in Irish is An Cheapach.
- Area
- 66.4 ha
- 164 acres
- Land parcels
- 26
- registered freehold, median 20,978 m² (2.1 ha, 5.18 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cappagh, from 1,174 m² to 91,563 m² (9.16 ha, 22.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Cappagh 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 Oct 2020Conditional
construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank & percolation system and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 20550
21 Oct 2020N/a
construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank & percolation system and all associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 20544
9 Jul 2020N/a
construct a building to provide an indoor astro turf playing area, re-location of existing septic tank and percolation system,, hardstand adjacent to proposed building and all associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 20338
9 Jul 2020Conditional
construct a building to provide an indoor astro turf playing area, re-location of existing septic tank and percolation system,, hardstand adjacent to proposed building and all associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 20345
23 Nov 2017Conditional
redevelop the existing playing pitch and all associated ancillary works and services
Permission · Laois County Council, 17628
20 Feb 2017Conditional
construct an extension to existing club house, ball wall, astro turf area, associated lights and fencing and all ancillary works and services
Permission · Laois County Council, 1791
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 Cappagh.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cappagh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cappagh.
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 Cappagh, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cappagh.
- 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 Cappagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.
The townland
- Name
- Cappagh · An Cheapach
- Area
- 663,954 m² (66.4 ha, 164.07 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aghaboe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clandonagh
- Electoral division
- Borris-In-Ossory, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,012 people lived in 381 households in the Borris-In-Ossory electoral division. 67% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballykeevan, Ballytarsna, Barnasallagh, Knockaroe, Sentryhill
- Placenames
- Cappagh 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.