Cappagh North
Townland in the civil parish of Clonenagh and Clonagheen, barony of Maryborough East, Co. Laois; in Irish An Cheapach Thuaidh
- Area
- 210.8 ha
- 521 acres
- Land parcels
- 65
- registered freehold, median 5,354 m² (0.54 ha, 1.32 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 16
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
65 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cappagh North, from 87 m² to 361,938 m² (36.19 ha, 89.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Cappagh North 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
1 Jul 2026N/a
1. Retain change to the facades of dwelling house from that previously approved under planning register No. 480/90. 2. Retain change of use of an existing garage to a dwelling unit. 3. And all associated site works and services.
Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660429
10 Jul 2023Conditional
retain extensions to dwelling house, domestic garage, stables, dog kennels and entrance from roadway to garage.
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 23203
5 Jul 2023N/a
retain extensions to dwelling house, domestic garage, stables, dog kennels and entrance from roadway to garage.
Permission · Laois County Council, 23194
2 Dec 2021Conditional
construct new storey and a half dwelling with single storey annex, garage, treatment system, percolation area, new entrance and all assoc site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21828
1 Nov 2021Conditional
construct a two storey dwelling, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, new recessed entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 21745
29 Oct 2021N/a
construct a two storey dwelling, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, new recessed entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 21734
29 Oct 2021Conditional
construct a new single storey dwelling, garage, treatment system, percolation area, new entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21738
14 Oct 2021Unconditional
extend duration on planning reg ref: 17/165
Extension of duration, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21704
10 Sept 2020Conditional
construct a new dwelling house, domestic shed, waste water treatment system and polishing filter and new site entrance
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 20460
22 Oct 2019Conditional
construct an extension to the side of an existing dwelling house along with all ancillary site services and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19581
8 Feb 2019Conditional
retain domestic garage and associated works
Retention · Laois County Council, 1983
9 Oct 2018Conditional
construct a dwelling house, detached domestic garage, waste water treatment system, agricultural shed and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18607
22 Aug 2018Conditional
construct one number detached dwelling house , one number detached garage, construct new entrance to public road, to install a mini treatment system and raised polishing filter, to connect to existing public water ,main and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18524
1 Dec 2017Refused
construct one number detached dwelling, one number detached garage to construct new entrance to public road, to install a mini treatment system and polishing filter to connect to existing public watermain and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17645
29 Nov 2017N/a
construct one number detached dwelling, one number detached garage to construct new entrance to public road, to install a mini treatment system and polishing filter to connect to existing public watermain and all associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 17639
7 Apr 2017Conditional
alter (including an extra dormer to south elevation and an increase in floor area) to a dormer dwelling house, granted permission under previous ref. 16/412. (development includes a domestic garage, a waste treatment system and a new site entrance
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17165
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
- Natural Heritage Area: Clonreher Bog NHA 002357
Recorded monuments
- LA012-001 Ritual site - holy well
Description
Marked on the 1841 and 1909 eds OS 6-inch maps. Now dry. In low-lying poor land, no surface remains visible. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cappagh North.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Cappagh North.
- 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 Cappagh North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.
The townland
- Name
- Cappagh North · An Cheapach Thuaidh
- Area
- 2,107,802 m² (210.78 ha, 520.85 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonenagh and Clonagheen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Maryborough East
- Electoral division
- Borris, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Borris electoral division: 1,797 people in 601 households; 58% of households own their home; 77% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clonagh, Clondarrig, Clonreher, Clonsoghey, Clontyglass, Pallas Big, Pallas Little, Rossnagad
- Placenames
- Cappagh North 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.