Cappoley

85 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cappoley, from 108 m² to 190,727 m² (19.07 ha, 47.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 42 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Cappoley 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.

• 6 Jun 2024Conditional

  retain extension to existing dwelling house including first floor extension to front and single storey extension to rear and retain changes to entrance to site, also full planning permission to demolish existing garage on site and to partially demolish existing shed and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2460318

• 16 Nov 2023Conditional

  demolish remaining existing cottage and extend to previous extension granted under 18686 and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2360489

• 4 Oct 2023Conditional

  retain (a) living room extension off existing kitchen, (b) lounge area extension off existing lounge, (c) porch extension off existing porch, (d) existing shed in yard and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 23257

• 13 Dec 2018N/a

  change use of existing granted planning permission 18/167 from commercial use to agricultural use

  Permission · Laois County Council, 18746

• 13 Nov 2018Conditional

  demolish part of existing cottage and construct extension to same

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18686

• 21 Mar 2018Conditional

  construct extension to existing sheds and create new site entrance

  Permission · Laois County Council, 18167

• 14 Nov 2017Conditional

  construct proposed conversion of a bungalow to two storey dwelling house and constructiuon of a single storey extension to the rear and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17602

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 Cappoley.

Recorded monuments

• LA018-070 Burial
  Description

  The files of the National Museum of Ireland records that in November 1951 a human skull was found during quarrying operations at a sandpit at Cappoley, near Portlaoise, Co. Laois (Cahill & Sikora 2011, Vol. 2, 489). According to the Garda report, the skull fell from the top of the quarry and broke into small pieces. The site was reported to the Coroner and the Gardaí, who informed the NMI. A site investigation was undertaken by PJ Hartnett. The area is described by Hartnett as a small drumlin-type natural gravel mound, which up to recent years had been tree-covered. No trace of a pit was evident in the upper gravel as the section had been cut back since the discovery, but according to a local the remains were found at a depth of 0.45-060m below the surface and other bones were apparently also found in the sand pit some years ago. The remains were not acquired by the Museum (NMI File). Although no exact location for this burial has been identified in the NMI files there is only one sandpit in Cappoley visible on OSI aerial photographs of the area and which matches the description of the wooded area. This quarry would appear to be the likely location of this burial. The exact location of the find is not marked but the Garda report states that the quarry was known as Norton's quarry and was at Sheffield house. The Battle of Plumes (1599) was apparently fought in the vicinity. Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload / revision : 10 August 2012

Architectural heritage

• Sheffield, farmyard complex, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Farmyard complex, c.1850, including (north): Detached nine-bay single-storey stable outbuilding with half-attic on a rectangular plan. In ruins, 1997. Remains of pitched slate roof on collared timber construction with ridge tiles, coping to gables, and no rainwater goods surviving on cut-limestone eaves. Part ivy-covered coursed rubble limestone walls with cut-limestone flush quoins to corners. Square-headed door openings with yellow brick block-and-start surrounds. Segmental lunette window openings (half-attic) with cut-limestone sills, and yellow brick voussoirs with no fittings surviving. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and yellow brick block-and-start surrounds with no fittings surviving; (south): Detached seven-bay two-storey coach house with half-attic on a rectangular plan. Derelict, 1997. Remains of pitched slate roof on collared timber construction with ridge tiles, coping to gables, and no rainwater goods surviving on cut-limestone eaves. Part ivy-covered coursed rubble limestone walls with cut-limestone flush quoins to corners. Series of seven elliptical-headed carriageways with limestone ashlar voussoirs. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with cut-limestone sills, and yellow brick block-and-start surrounds with no fittings surviving. Set in grounds originally shared with Sheffield. NOTE: Sheffield was demolished (1939) by the Irish Land Commission who subsequently advertised a 'SALE OF MATERIALS…by Public Auction [including] 3,800 slates, 22" x 12"; 2,200 slates, 18" x 10"; 4,200 slates, 14" x 8"; 600 slates, 30" x 18"; 286 ridge tiles, 27 windows, 24 doors, 5 mantle-pieces, 18 window shutters, 2 double doors, 1 ton lead…sash weights, scrap timber, building stone, cut stone, &c.' (The Nationalist and Leinster Times 19th August 1939).

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Cappoley.

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.

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

Name

Cappoley · Ceapach Amhlaidh

Area

1,823,843 m² (182.38 ha, 450.68 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcolmanbane, and its townlands

Barony

Maryborough East

Electoral division

Kilcolmanbane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilcolmanbane electoral division: 627 people in 208 households; 96% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycarnan, Kilcolmanbane, Meelick, Rathleague

Placenames

Cappoley 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.