Cappagowlan

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cappagowlan, from 1,394 m² to 670,773 m² (67.08 ha, 165.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Cappagowlan 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.

• 20 Oct 2023N/a

  (A) THE DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING FLAT ROOF EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF THE PROPERTY CONTAINING THE KITCHEN, UTILITY AND WC. (B) THE DEMOLITION OF TWO CHIMNEYS TO THE FRONT OF THE EXISTING DWELLING. (C) CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR CONTAINING KITCHEN/DINING, UTILITY AND WC, CONSTRUCTION OF A PORCH TO THE SIDE, INTERNAL LAYOUT ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 23404

• 7 Oct 2022Conditional

  AMMENDMENTS UNDER PREVIOUSLY APPROVED PLANNING PERMISSION REG REF:PL2/21/786

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 22516

• 17 Dec 2021Conditional

  A DOMESTIC GARAGE/FUEL STORE TO THE REAR OF THE PROPERTY AS CONSTRUCTED AND PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A SIDE EXTENSION, CARRY OUT ELEVATIONAL ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING DWELLING, RELOCATION OF DRIVEWAY, UPGRADE/RELOCATION OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Retention, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 21786

• 22 Oct 2021N/a

  A DOMESTIC GARAGE/FUEL STORE TO THE REAR OF THE PROPERTY AS CONSTRUCTED ON THIS SITE. PERMISSION IS SOUGHT TO CONSTRUCT A SIDE EXTENSION, CARRY OUT ELEVATIONAL ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING DWELLING, RELOCATION OF DRIVEWAY AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 21662

• 25 Feb 2019Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF SHEDS AND AN UNHABITABLE HOUSE, THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, A LIVESTOCK SHED INCORPORATING A SLATTED TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 3 homes · Offaly County Council, 1973

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 Cappagowlan.

Recorded monuments

• OF032-002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture on W facing slope. Circular area (46m N-S; 44.7m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.5m, ext. H 1.5m, Wth 3m) and external fosse (Wth 0.75m; ext. D 0.7m) with entrance gap (Wth 2.5m) at SE. Interior of site is used as a vegetable garden. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF032-003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture, roughly circular area (66.5m N-S; 73.4m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (int. H 1.4m; ext. H 2.3m) with external fosse (Wth 2m; D 1.5m) and possible entrance gap (Wth 4m) at SW. Long low mound of earth and stone construction (L. 25m; Wth 8m; H 0.25m) located in the centre of the site. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF032-025 House - 17th century
  Description

  Small late 18th-century two storey house with five bays and hipped roof built onto the front of a gable ended 17th-century three storey house over a basement with original dog-legged staircase surviving. The walls measure approx. 0.75m thick and the attic has two small square shaped windows visible on the E gable with two blocked up attic lights on the W gable. According to local information 17th-century date revealed during restoration of house several years ago. (Garner 1985, 17; Craig 1982, 194) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Architectural heritage

• Cappagowlan, farm house, 1650–1750 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey farmhouse, built c.1760, in front of earlier gable-ended two-storey over basement with attic house, c.1650. Hipped slate roof to front section with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Pitched slate roof to rear section with chimneystacks located over gable end walls. Pebbledashed walls. Square-headed window openings with sandstone sills and uPVC and aluminum windows. Narrow sills to rear elevation. Round-headed door opening with granite block-and-start surround with spoked fanlight, timber panelled double doors and flanked by sidelights. Door accessed up four sandstone steps. The interior of this front section of the house is decorated with impressive ceiling plasterwork, an elegant touch for a rural house. Two-storey stone outbuildings and modern sheds to rear yard. Sandstone flat-arched to openings to outbuilding.

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

At the centre of the townland of Cappagowlan, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1830 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Cappagowlan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Cappagowlan · Ceapaigh an Ghabhláin

Area

2,060,040 m² (206 ha, 509.05 acres)

Civil parish

Killoughy, and its townlands

Barony

Ballyboy

Electoral division

Killooly, the unit of the census

Census 2022

271 people lived in 92 households in the Killooly electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynacarrig, Ballywilliamreagh, Carrigeen, Coolreagh Glebe, Derries, Gortacur, Rathmurragh

Placenames

Cappagowlan 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.