Cappanashannagh

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cappanashannagh, from 118 m² to 135,190 m² (13.52 ha, 33.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 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.

• G4Open Space/Amenity (Active open space)
  Laois County Development Plan 2021–2027 including Ministerial Direction (as varied) by Variation No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3, Laois · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 1 Jul 2025Conditional

  Construct two Special Education Needs (SEN) classrooms in a single storey flat roof detached building located to the rear of the main school building with associated external play space, with amendments to the existing sports grounds fence, with addition of gate access and new 2.2m boundary fence to the sports grounds and all associated site works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560392

• 13 Nov 2024Conditional

  construct silage pit with concrete apron and 7 span cubicle shed with slatted tanks and all associated ancillary works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460691

• 15 Jun 2020Conditional

  construct a 16unit milking parlour, slatted shed and cubicle house, collecting yard and drafting area

  Permission · Laois County Council, 20289

• 11 Jun 2020N/a

  construct a 100 cubicle slatted shed, collecting yard with soiled water tank, 16 unit milking parlour with drafting yard.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 20280

• 2 May 2018Conditional

  construct a three classroom extension to include one general purpose classroom and a two classroom ASD unit and all associated works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 18271

• 23 Apr 2018N/a

  cojstruct a three classroom extension to include one general purpose classroom and a two classroom ASD unit and all associated works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 18246

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cappanashannagh.

Recorded monuments

• LA030-009 Moated site
  Description

  Marked on the 1841 edition of the OS 6-inch map; a subrectangular enclosure ( max. dim. c. 40m E-W) cut by a NE-SW running field wall. Situated in undulating countryside. 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 Cappanashannagh.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Cappanashannagh, about 1 in 20 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 Cappanashannagh.

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.

No address of the register names Cappanashannagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Cappanashannagh · Ceapaigh na Seannach

Area

1,051,120 m² (105.11 ha, 259.74 acres)

Civil parish

Dysartgallen, and its townlands

Barony

Cullenagh

Electoral division

Ballinakill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

838 people lived in 296 households in the Ballinakill electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballypickas Upper, Haywood Demesne, Kilnashane, Moat, Raggettstown, Ralish

Placenames

Cappanashannagh 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.