Cappanacloghy
Townland in the civil parish of Clonenagh and Clonagheen, barony of Maryborough West, Co. Laois; in Irish Ceapach na Cloiche
- Area
- 232.5 ha
- 575 acres
- Land parcels
- 87
- registered freehold, median 11,281 m² (1.13 ha, 2.79 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
87 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cappanacloghy, from 200 m² to 287,002 m² (28.7 ha, 70.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 37 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 Cappanacloghy 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
29 Aug 2024Conditional
construct dwelling, garage, site entrance, driveway, septic tank, percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2460505
25 Apr 2023Conditional
construct a single storey dwelling house, entrance, packaged wastewater treatment system with polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2360149
22 Mar 2018Conditional
construct dwelling house, packaged wastewater treatment system with polishing filter, entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18169
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: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
- Special Protection Area: River Nore SPA 004233
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Shanahoe Marsh 001923
Recorded monuments
- LA023-014 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated in undulating countryside. Marked on the 1841 edition of the OS 6-inch map; a circular 'fort' (max. diam. c. 35m). Known locally as the 'rath field'. No visible surface remains. 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 Cappanacloghy.
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 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 Cappanacloghy.
- 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 Cappanacloghy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.
The townland
- Name
- Cappanacloghy · Ceapach na Cloiche
- Area
- 2,325,395 m² (232.54 ha, 574.62 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonenagh and Clonagheen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Maryborough West
- Electoral division
- Clash, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Clash electoral division: 372 people in 122 households; 93% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Barnadarrig, Boley Lower, Cloncough, Cromoge, Derrykearn, Foxburrow, Killeany, Poormansbridge, Shanahoe, Springmount
- Placenames
- Cappanacloghy 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.