Cappanouk

96 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cappanouk, from 95 m² to 253,538 m² (25.35 ha, 62.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 47 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 Cappanouk 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.

• 3 Oct 2025Refused

  construction of a single storey front porch and the renovation of existing residential building which includes alterations to existing elevations, wastewater treatment system, site boundary, site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 25324

• 21 May 2025Refused

  renovation of existing residential building which includes extension to existing building, alterations to existing elevations, wastewater treatment system, site boundary, site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 25163

• 25 Feb 2025Conditional

  change of use of the existing farm out-buildings from agricultural to commercial use. Planning permission is also sought for the demolition of single storey farm stores and the erection of a two storey extension to existing out building, works to the ground and first floor of the existing building including minor internal and roof alterations and all associated site works. Abington Rectory is scheduled on the national inventory of architectural heritage reg. no. 21901502

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2560154

• 16 Dec 2024Refused

  the conversion of two existing agricultural building into habitable residential dwellings, alterations to existing elevations, single storey front extension to one, waste water treatment system, site entrance, site boundaries and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 24468

• 15 Jun 2024Refused

  the demolition of single storey farm stores and the erection of a two storey extension to existing out building offices; works to the ground and first floor of the existing offices including minor internal and roof alterations and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460598

• 15 Jun 2024Conditional

  the erection of a single storey orangery/conservatory to the rear of the property; alterations to the ground and first floor of an existing side extension including new roof, windows, internal alterations and the upgrade of services and all associated site works at

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460588

• 20 Oct 2023Conditional

  a change of house design, change of site boundary and site layout plan from that granted in planning ref 21-499

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2360766

• 25 Nov 2022Conditional

  the construction of a machinery shed and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 221248

• 12 Jul 2022Conditional

  the construction of an extension to farmyard consisting of a cattle shed constructed over an existing underground slurry storage tank

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 22773

• 6 May 2022N/a

  the construction of an extension to farmyard consisting of a cattle shed constructed over an existing underground slurry storage tank

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 22505

• 4 Jun 2021Conditional

  construction of a single storey dwelling, entrance, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, and ancillary works(outline permission reference 19/1074). The development will involve the use of the existing entrance to the family home for access to the proposed dwelling, and the new entrance proposed will be for access to the existing family dwelling

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21792

• 16 Apr 2021Conditional

  the demolition of an existing dwelling and the construction of a replacement dwelling, waste water treatment system, polishing filter, entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21499

• 1 Apr 2021Conditional

  the construction of a new vehicular entrance off existing private farm laneway, two storey dwelling house, garage, domestic waste water treatment system and polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21417

• 18 Jun 2020N/a

  construction of a single storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 20527

• 2 Apr 2020N/a

  upgrading of an existing entrance from public roadway onto forestry lands, to comprise the provision of splayed access, clear visibility sightlines, associated setting back of adjacent roadside boundaries, provision of associated surface water drainage, fences, finished hardcored structure to access area, and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 20276

• 27 Feb 2020Conditional

  construction of a new uncovered underground slurry storage tank on my farmyard

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 20168

• 13 Feb 2020Conditional

  construction of machinery shed and ancillary works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 20105

• 6 Dec 2019N/a

  a new dwelling, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter, entrance and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 191211

• 31 Oct 2019Conditional

  construction of a dormer type dwelling, entrance, wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary works

  Outline permission · Limerick County Council, 191074

• 19 Sept 2019N/a

  construction of a dormer type dwelling, entrance, wastewater treatment system and percolation area and ancillary works

  Outline permission · Limerick County Council, 19937

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballyvorheen Bog 001849

Recorded monuments

• LI015-014 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Situated immediately SW of a field boundary, in pasture on a steep E-facing slope. Named as Kylenanny Burial Ground on the 1840 OS map and as 'Kylenanny Burial Gd. (Disused)' on the 1927 OS map. Now evident as a sub-circular area (diam. 3.7m) defined from E to SW by a scarped edge (Wth 2.1m; H 0.3m). No evident of any gravemarkers apparent. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 3 July 2013

• LI015-094 Enclosure
  Description

  In reclaimed grassland. Outline of circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 22m) defined by a fosse visible on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-13 and earlier OSi orthophotos. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 24 June 2020

Architectural heritage

• Abington Rectory, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement with attic storey, former rectory, built in 1804, with two-storey extension to north. Half-hipped artificial slate roof having rendered chimneystacks and overhanging eaves. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed opening with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows having limestone sills. Square-headed opening comprising of carved limestone surround having cut pilasters with floral motifs to tops, spoked fanlight over carved entablature and timber panelled door, flanked by sidelights. Accessed via flight of limestone steps. Ranges of outbuildings arranged around courtyard to north, having pitched artificial slate roofs and roughly dressed limestone walls. Square-headed openings with red brick voussoirs and replacement timber fittings. Now converted to accommodation. Segmental-headed dressed sandstone entrance gate to courtyard. Square-profile sandstone piers to front of site flanking replacement wrought-iron gates.

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 20 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1193 (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.

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

Name

Cappanouk · Ceapach an Abhaic

Area

3,964,860 m² (396.49 ha, 979.74 acres)

Civil parish

Abington, and its townlands

Barony

Owneybeg

Electoral division

Abington, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Abington electoral division: 1,367 people in 433 households; 82% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyvorheen, Dromcluher, Dromsallagh, Eyon, Gortavacoosh, Knockanerry, Mongfune, Rath, Rathwood

Placenames

Cappanouk 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.