# Kilcappagh, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballykean, barony of Philipstown Upper, Co. Offaly; in Irish Coill Cheapach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,574,441 m² (257.44 ha, 636.16 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 14,290 m² (1.43 ha, 3.53 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 18 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballykean, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/ballykean.md - Barony: Philipstown Upper - Electoral division: Ballyshear, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Ballyshear electoral division: 407 people in 134 households; 93% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41946 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180775 - Centre: latitude 53.186236, longitude -7.23572 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcappagh, from 199 m² to 424,212 m² (42.42 ha, 104.82 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 291329: 424,212 m² (42.42 ha, 104.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291329.md - Parcel 291332: 317,028 m² (31.7 ha, 78.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291332.md - Parcel 306103: 228,785 m² (22.88 ha, 56.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/306103.md - Parcel 308367: 142,965 m² (14.3 ha, 35.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/308367.md - Parcel 5308562: 66,294 m² (6.63 ha, 16.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5308562.md - Parcel 6099664: 66,294 m² (6.63 ha, 16.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6099664.md - Parcel 2472918: 59,742 m² (5.97 ha, 14.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2472918.md - Parcel 5010250: 59,306 m² (5.93 ha, 14.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5010250.md - Parcel 4222644: 58,891 m² (5.89 ha, 14.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4222644.md - Parcel 291571: 57,996 m² (5.8 ha, 14.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291571.md - Parcel 308750: 55,059 m² (5.51 ha, 13.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/308750.md - Parcel 291328: 50,700 m² (5.07 ha, 12.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291328.md - Parcel 291325: 43,713 m² (4.37 ha, 10.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291325.md - Parcel 291330: 32,016 m² (3.2 ha, 7.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291330.md - Parcel 291331: 30,244 m² (3.02 ha, 7.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291331.md - Parcel 2481785: 30,230 m² (3.02 ha, 7.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2481785.md - Parcel 305356: 24,329 m² (2.43 ha, 6.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/305356.md - Parcel 5646373: 23,914 m² (2.39 ha, 5.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5646373.md - Parcel 4222645: 19,138 m² (1.91 ha, 4.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4222645.md - Parcel 5865268: 18,846 m² (1.88 ha, 4.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5865268.md - Parcel 282178: 16,938 m² (1.69 ha, 4.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/282178.md - Parcel 308791: 16,560 m² (1.66 ha, 4.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/308791.md - Parcel 2483023: 14,322 m² (1.43 ha, 3.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2483023.md - Parcel 6099646: 14,290 m² (1.43 ha, 3.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6099646.md - Parcel 6099647: 14,290 m² (1.43 ha, 3.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6099647.md - Parcel 291324: 13,243 m² (1.32 ha, 3.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291324.md - Parcel 291322: 9,285 m² (0.93 ha, 2.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291322.md - Parcel 304604: 6,841 m² (0.68 ha, 1.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/304604.md - Parcel 5188298: 6,068 m² (0.61 ha, 1.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5188298.md - Parcel 6110593: 5,250 m² (0.52 ha, 1.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6110593.md - Parcel 285939: 4,191 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/285939.md - Parcel 312083: 4,060 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/312083.md - Parcel 4658286: 3,825 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4658286.md - Parcel 287000: 3,505 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/287000.md - Parcel 6099701: 3,052 m² (0.31 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6099701.md - Parcel 5162768: 2,878 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5162768.md - Parcel 285940: 2,831 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/285940.md - Parcel 285105: 2,744 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/285105.md - Parcel 291327: 2,560 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291327.md - Parcel 282179: 2,486 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/282179.md - Parcel 299703: 2,047 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/299703.md - Parcel 2502011: 1,910 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2502011.md - Parcel 5010249: 1,632 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5010249.md - Parcel 291323: 1,468 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/291323.md - Parcel 285602: 1,425 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/285602.md - Parcel 5759196: 1,059 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5759196.md - Parcel 291497: 1,041 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/291497.md - Parcel 282180: 199 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/282180.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Kilcappagh in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 18 applications, newest first. - 28 Apr 2026, Offaly County Council 2660226: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, domestic shed, waste water treatment system and polishing filter, bored well, new site entrance and all associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660226/0 - 27 Aug 2025, Offaly County Council 2560391: Conditional. Permission, 3 homes. construction of new two-storey extension to the front gable of existing dwelling together with all associated site works. Retention permission is also sought for existing dwelling as constructed and domestic garage to the South-East of the existing dwelling.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560391/0 - 11 Aug 2025, Offaly County Council 2560355: N/a. Permission. construction of new two- story extension to the front gable of existing dwelling together with all associated site works. Retention permission is also sought for existing dwelling as constructed and domestic garage to the South-East of the existing dwelling. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560355/0 - 1 Jun 2025, Offaly County Council 2560214: N/a. Permission, 1 home. construction of new two- story extension to the front gable of existing dwelling together with all associated site works. Retention permission is also sought for domestic garage to the South-East of the existing dwelling. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560214/0 - 7 May 2025, Offaly County Council 2547: N/a. Permission, 1 home. THE ERECTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY DWELLING, CONNECTION TO A NEW EFFLUENT WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, THE ERECTION OF A NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2547/0 - 27 Oct 2023, Offaly County Council 2360165: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic shed, new entrance, effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360165/0 - 24 Oct 2023, Offaly County Council 2360156: N/a. Permission. the construction of a dwelling house, domestic shed, new entrance, effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360156/0 - 12 Oct 2023, Offaly County Council 2360144: N/a. Permission. the construction of a dwelling house, domestic shed, new entrance, effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360144/0 - 6 Oct 2023, Offaly County Council 2360139: N/a. Permission. the construction of a dwelling house, domestic shed, new entrance, effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works at Kilcappagh, Cloneygowan, Co. Offaly.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360139/0 - 17 Feb 2023, Offaly County Council 2355: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY TIMBER DWELLING HOUSE, NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE, DOMESTIC WELL, WATER TREATMENT WITH FILTRATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2355/0 - 3 Oct 2022, Offaly County Council 22507: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. SITE RELOCATION ON PREVIOUSLY APPROVED PLANNING REG REF 21/679 FOR BUNGALOW TYPE DWELLING & DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA WITH NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/22507/0 - 5 Sept 2022, Offaly County Council 22459: N/a. Permission. SITE RELOCATION ON PREVIOUSLY APPROVED PLANNING REG REF 21/679 FOR BUNGALOW TYPE DWELLING & DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA WITH NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/22459/0 - 1 Nov 2021, Offaly County Council 21679: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. A BUNGALOW TYPE DWELLING & DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA WITH NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/21679/0 - 27 Apr 2021, Offaly County Council 21245: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. SINGLE STOREY DWELLING, GARAGE, ENTRANCE, SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/21245/0 - 12 Apr 2021, Offaly County Council 21197: N/a. Permission. SINGLE STOREY DWELLING, GARAGE, ENTRANCE, SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/21197/0 - 16 Oct 2020, Offaly County Council 20502: Refused. Permission, 1 home. SINGLE STOREY DWELLING, GARAGE, ENTRANCE, SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/20502/0 - 7 Sept 2017, Offaly County Council 17335: Conditional. Permission. UP TO 12 NO. WIND TURBINES WITH A TIP HEIGHT OF UP TO 169 METERS AND ALL ASSOCIATED FOUNDATIONS AND HARDSTANDING AREAS; A RECREATIONAL AMENITY TRAIL, ASSOCIATED SIGNAGE, PARKING AND RECREATIONAL FACILITIES; 1 NO. ON-SITE ELECTRICAL SUBSTATION; 1 NO. TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION COMPOUND; ALL ASSOCIATED UNDERGROUND ELECTRICAL AND COMMUNICATIONS CABLING CONNECTING THE TURBINES TO THE PROPOSED ON-SITE ELECTRICAL SUBSTATION; PROVISION OF NEW SITE ACCESS TRACKS AND UPGRADING OF EXISTING ACCESS TRACKS AND ASSOCIATE DRAINAGE; EXCAVATION OF 1 NO. BORROW PIT; WORKS TO FACILITATE THE DELIVERY OF TURBINES ALONG THE LOCAL ROAD L1013 WITHIN THE TOWNLAND OF BALLYCHRISTAL TO INCLUDE TEMPORARY ALTERATIONS TO ROADSIDE BOUNDARY AND THE LAYING OF TEMPORARY SURFACING AND THE PERMANENT SETBACK OF A ROADSIDE BOUNDARY WALL; TREE FELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. PERMISSION IS SOUGHT FOR A PERIOD OF 10 YEARS AND AN OPERATIONAL LIFE OF 30 YEARS FROM THE DATE OF COMMISSIONING OF THE ENTIRE WIND FARM. AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR)/ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT (E.I.S.) AND A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) HAVE BEEN PREPARED IN RESPECT OF THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/17335/0 - 30 Aug 2017, Offaly County Council 17322: N/a. Permission. UP TO 12 NO. WIND TURBINES WITH A TIP HEIGHT OF UP TO 169 METERS AND ALL ASSOCIATED FOUNDATIONS AND HARDSTANDING AREAS; A RECREATIONAL AMENITY TRAIL, ASSOCIATED SIGNAGE, PARKING AND RECREATIONAL FACILITIES; 1 NO. ON-SITE ELECTRICAL SUBSTATION; 1 NO. TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION COMPOUND; ALL ASSOCIATED UNDERGROUND ELECTRICAL AND COMMUNICATIONS CABLING CONNECTING THE TURBINES TO THE PROPOSED ON-SITE ELECTRICAL SUBSTATION; PROVISION OF NEW SITE ACCESS TRACKS AND UPGRADING OF EXISTING ACCESS TRACKS AND ASSOCIATE DRAINAGE; EXCAVATION OF 1 NO. BORROW PIT; WORKS TO FACILITATE THE DELIVERY OF TURBINES ALONG THE LOCAL ROAD L1013 WITHIN THE TOWNLAND OF BALLYCHRISTAL TO INCLUDE TEMPORARY ALTERATIONS TO ROADSIDE BOUNDARY AND THE LAYING OF TEMPORARY SURFACING AND THE PERMANENT SETBACK OF A ROADSIDE BOUNDARY WALL; TREE FELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. PERMISSION IS SOUGHT FOR A PERIOD OF 10 YEARS AND AN OPERATIONAL LIFE OF 30 YEARS FROM THE DATE OF COMMISSIONING OF THE ENTIRE WIND FARM. AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR)/ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT (EIS) AND A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) HAVE BEEN PREPARED IN RESPECT OF THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/17322/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Kilcappagh. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - OF033-003: Earthwork, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF033-003----. Hachured as a small mound on the revised 1908 ed. OS 25-inch map but no mound is indicated on the 1838 edition OS 6-inch map. No surface remains visible. 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/revision: 20 December 2011 - OF033-004: Earthwork, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF033-004----. Appears as a small oval-shaped mound on revised 1908 ed. OS 25-inch map but not on earlier editions of the OS 6-inch maps. Present owner stated that his father had levelled the site. Not visible at ground level. 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/revision: 30 December 2011 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilcappagh. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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_2176, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2176.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/offaly/kilcappagh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/kilcappagh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/kilcappagh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Kilcappagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly: https://everytownland.com/offaly.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Bogtown: https://everytownland.com/offaly/bogtown.md - Clonyquin: https://everytownland.com/offaly/clonyquin.md - Derreen: https://everytownland.com/offaly/derreen.md - Moanvane: https://everytownland.com/offaly/moanvane.md - Shanderry: https://everytownland.com/offaly/shanderry.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/offaly/kilcappagh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/kilcappagh