Cappamore
Townland in the civil parish of Doon, barony of Coonagh, Co. Limerick; in Irish An Cheapach Mhór
- Area
- 75.8 ha
- 187 acres
- Land parcels
- 29
- registered freehold, median 2,979 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cappamore, from 442 m² to 172,159 m² (17.22 ha, 42.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S5Education & Community Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1Agriculture
Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C2.1Enterprise & Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R3Residential Serviced Sites (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M2Village Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
30 Jul 2026N/a
installation of a standalone Pod structure, 21 square metres, as a sensory room and safe space ancillary to the existing Cappamore Community Hall, together with all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660872
13 Jun 2022N/a
the refurbishment of the existing appliance bay which includes conversion of appliance bay to a lecture room, canteen, station office and muster bay, conversion of the existing lecture room to toilets, conversion of existing toilet to a laundry room. The construction of a three unit appliance bay, which includes the construction of a new entrance lobby, the construction of a drying room, Breathing Apparatus room, storage area and boiler house. The construction of a roofed area to the East of the proposed appliance bay to store an additional vehicle, hard landscaping including new footpaths and concrete apron, upgrading of foul sewers and surface water drainage, and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 228011
31 Aug 2020Conditional
the demolition of an existing dwelling & the construction of a replacement dwelling, new garage, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter, entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20853
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: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cappamore.
Architectural heritage
- Cappamore Boys' National School, school, 1930–1940 · Regional interest
Description
Detached T-plan six-bay single-storey national school, dated 1935, with lower gabled projecting entrance block to front (north) elevation and recent multiple-bay single-storey flat-roofed extension to north-west corner. Pitched slate roofs with red brick chimneystacks, timber bargeboards and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls with carved limestone date plaque to gabled projecting block. Concrete walls to extension. Square-headed openings with replacement uPVC windows and painted sills. Square-headed door opening with replacement uPVC door. Rendered boundary walls with square-profile piers, wrought-iron railings and metal gates.
- Farm house, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse, built c. 1790, having windbreak to front (south-west) elevation. Hipped thatched roof with brick chimneystack. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings having limestone sills, some with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed opening south-east elevation having fixed window. Square-headed opening with timber battened door. Attached outbuilding to north-west elevation, having single-bay single-storey extension to front (south-west) elevation. Pitched corrugated-iron roof. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed opening with metal door. Multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding to north-west with pitched and barrel corrugated-iron roofs. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings. Square-headed openings having timber battened doors. Pair of square-profile piers with double-leaf cast-iron gates. Rendered boundary walls having render copings.
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 20 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1214 (ZIP).
- 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 Cappamore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Cappamore · An Cheapach Mhór
- Area
- 758,430 m² (75.84 ha, 187.41 acres)
- Civil parish
- Doon, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coonagh
- Electoral division
- Cappamore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cappamore electoral division: 1,424 people in 517 households; 76% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballycoshown, Bilboa, Farnanefranklin, Gortnascarry, Portnard, Turagh
- Placenames
- Cappamore 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.