Cappoge
Townland in the civil parish of Cappoge, barony of Ardee, Co. Louth; in Irish Ceapóg
- Area
- 162.4 ha
- 401 acres
- Land parcels
- 62
- registered freehold, median 4,427 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cappoge, from 52 m² to 203,481 m² (20.35 ha, 50.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 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 Cappoge 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
17 Sept 2021N/a
Permission for development that will consist of the construction of a 2-storey dwelling with attached garage, septic tank with percolation area, provide new domestic entrance along with any ancillary site works
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 211155
23 Aug 2021N/a
Permission for a development that will consist of the construction of a 2 storey dwelling with attached garage septic tank with percolation area, provide new domestic entrance along with any ancillary site works
Permission · Louth County Council, 211047
14 May 2021Conditional
Permission sought for side extension to existing dwelling house, refurbishment and alterations to existing dwelling house, revised site boundaries, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21588
29 Mar 2021Conditional
Permission for a one and a half storey/single storey design dwelling house, detached domestic garage/store, installation of proprietary waste water treatment system/percolation area, new vehicular access from public road together with associated site works. *Significant Further Information received on 19/07/2021 which consists of revised design of dwellinghouse and revised orientation of dwellinghouse and detached domestic garage/store*
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 21334
31 Aug 2020Conditional
Permission for development which will consist of proposed two storey dwellinghouse, detached domestic garage, installation of proprietary waste water treatment system/percolation area, new vehicular access from public road together with associated siteworks. *Significant Further Information Received on 01/12/2020*
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 20663
12 Aug 2019N/a
Permission for proposed one and a half storey design dwelling house, attached single storey car port/domestic garage, installation of proprietary waste water treatment system/percolation area, new vehicular access from public road together with associated site works.
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 19651
20 Jun 2017Conditional
Permission for development that will consist of a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, vehicular entrance, effluent treatment system and for all associated site works.
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 17463
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cappoge.
Recorded monuments
- LH018-002001 Ritual site - holy well
Description
The OS Letters refer to a well dedicated to St. Mary known as 'Cill Muire' or 'Tober Muire' (CLAJ 1924, 282). Also referred to locally as 'St. Brigid's Well' (IFC Schools' Mss 679, 324). Described as still open but in need of cleaning in 1956 (Coyle 1956, 198). Not visible at ground level when inspected by ASI in 1966. A station was said to have been held on the 15th August each year and according to tradition its waters were supposed to have risen at midnight on this day (IFC Schools' Mss 669, 5). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 3 July 2012
- LH018-002002 Cist
Description
The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Skeleton with associated sword, coins and buckles, found c. 1790 in a long cist near Castle Moyle (see also LH018-002003-). (CLAJ 1909, 128, 130)
- LH018-002003 Castle - unclassified
Description
There is a tradition of a castle of the Hadsor family at Castle Moyle village (Stubbs 1909, 128, 130), and the OS letters also refer to a castle here (Anon. 1924, 282). A castle at Cappuck (24) in Cappod parish is not indicated on the Down Survey (1656-8) barony, for which see this web-page accessed on 9 May, 2016 http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/down-survey-maps.php#bm=Atherdee&c=Louth Nor is a castle marked on the Taylor and Skinner (1778) map (P 3). In any case its precise location is not known. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 9 May 2016
- LH018-004001 Church
Description
The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Built of rubble limestone, boulders and greywacke, and situated on a slight rise overlooking the immediate countryside. It has a W bellcote with punch-dressed limestone jambs. Undivided nave and chancel (int. dims. c. 17m E-W and c. 5m N-S). Doorway in W end of S wall with reveals, bar holes and rounded arch constructed of greywacke with central keystone. Only small portion of the featureless E wall remains. Splayed ope in W gable below bellcote and to its S. Remains of other splayed ope at W end of N wall. This is a fifteenth- or sixteenth-century parish church. (CLAJ 1924, 282; CLAJ 1943, 203)
- LH018-004002 Graveyard
Description
Sub-rectangular shaped graveyard (map dims. c. 45m N-S; c. 50m E-W) with remains of probable 15-16th century church (LH018-004001-) just SE of centre. Earliest noted headstone is to Darcy family and dated c. 1770. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 3 July 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cappoge.
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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cappoge.
- 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 Cappoge with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.
The townland
- Name
- Cappoge · Ceapóg
- Area
- 1,624,498 m² (162.45 ha, 401.42 acres)
- Civil parish
- Cappoge, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ardee
- Electoral division
- Dromin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dromin electoral division: 679 people in 218 households; 93% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymageragh, Cangy, Charleville, Coneyburrow, Dromin, Drumcar, Mullincross
- Placenames
- Cappoge 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.