Capragh

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Capragh, from 1,260 m² to 221,607 m² (22.16 ha, 54.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Capragh 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.

• 11 Oct 2024Conditional

  permission and retention permission for development consisting of 1) Retention of use of house, ancillary building to rear and grounds as child / young person education / therapy facility; 2) Retention of development details departing from approved planning application Reg. Ref.: 001167, consisting of: a) Orientation and position details of the house and ancillary building to rear; b) Plan and elevation details of the house and ancillary building to rear; c) Details of site entrance, driveway, hardstanding and site frontage to R179 road; and d) Details of landscaping works to rear of the house; and 3) Retention of fencing to outdoor play / therapeutic area to front of the house. Permission will be sought for: 1) Enlargement of parking area (to serve existing activities), where same enlargement will comprise permeable surfacing; 2) Provision of additional site landscaping; and 3) All associated works

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 2460378

• 14 May 2024Conditional

  permission for the construction of a two storey dwelling, single-storey detached domestic garage, new entrance with gates and piers, septic tank and percolation area, together with all associated ancillary site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2460168

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 Capragh.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Capragh.

Architectural heritage

• Capragh, outbuilding, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-storey multiple-bay outbuilding to north-east of ruinous house, built c.1820, having single-storey outbuilding attached to north-west gable. Pitched slate roof. Snecked dressed stone walls. Square-headed openings having red brick surrounds and cut-stone sills. Elliptical-arch door opening having cut-stone voussoirs. Elliptical-arch carriage entrance having cut-stone voussoirs, proud keystone, and timber battened double-leaf door. Single-storey outbuilding having pitched corrugated-iron roof, rubble stone walls with quoins and square-headed openings. Cut-stone carriage arch to north-west edge of yard having red brick soffit, slate coping, and cut-stone voussoirs, adjoining rubble stone wall to a former outbuilding having red brick surrounds to openings. Rock-faced rusticated stone gate piers with pyramidal cappings and metal gate to yard. Set back from road and west of Lough Capragh. Entrance gate and ruinous gate lodge to south-west comprising ashlar gate piers with pyramidal cappings and cast-iron gate.

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 low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Capragh.

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 Capragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Capragh · An Chabrach

Area

589,833 m² (58.98 ha, 145.75 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmoyne, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Donaghmoyne, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Donaghmoyne electoral division: 704 people in 229 households; 93% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Donaghmoyne, Dundrockan, Longfield Etra, Longfield Otra, Rahans, Rossdreenagh

Placenames

Capragh 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.