Cappard Demesne

70 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cappard Demesne, from 265 m² to 210,929 m² (21.09 ha, 52.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Cappard Demesne 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.

• 30 Aug 2022Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment system and all associated works. Gross floor area of proposed works: 221sqm (Dwelling House) and 40sqm (Garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260867

• 18 Mar 2021Refused

  to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit with percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 220.0 sqm, Garage: 60.0 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21392

• 8 Oct 2020Conditional

  for replacement of fire damaged roof, incorporating upstairs bedrooms, front dormer windows, rear roof lights and internal alterations to dwelling house. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 93.1 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201465

• 29 May 2020Conditional

  to 1) Remove old silage slabs in existing farmyard. 2) Construct new silage slab with apron and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 602 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 20666

• 1 Aug 2019Conditional

  for the construction of dwelling house, garage, treatment unit and all associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 234.2 sqm, Garage - 50 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191199

• 15 Mar 2018Conditional

  to construct a slatted livestock shed with lie back area ancillary to existing farmyard. Gross floor space of proposed works 239.6 sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 18311

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA 004168

Recorded monuments

• GA114-041 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA123-023 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Cappard House, outbuilding, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Courtyard of two-storey outbuildings, built c.1800, associated with Cappard House, latter now demolished. Yard formerly comprised F-plan arrangement of buildings, lower bar of 'F' now demolished. Eight-bay long block largely blank to its rear elevation except for vehicular throughway towards west end. Eleven-bay block at right angle to east end. Pitched slate roofs with some clay ridge tiles, and tooled limestone eaves course. Rubble limestone walls, rendered to east range and east end of north range. Scarring and interlock rubble indicates site of missing block. Square-headed window openings, some with red brick relieving arches to east range, and square-headed window openings with rounded corners to north range, latter having tooled limestone block-and-start surrounds. Square-headed door openings to east range. Elliptical-headed vehicular entrances to north range with tooled limestone block-and-start surrounds. Rubble limestone wall to roofless overgrown addition to south-west. Snecked dressed rubble limestone boundary wall to south. Recent single-storey slatted cattle shed to south.

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 Cappard Demesne, 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_873 (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 Cappard Demesne with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Cappard Demesne · An Cheapach Ard

Area

1,912,235 m² (191.22 ha, 472.52 acres)

Civil parish

Kilthomas, and its townlands

Barony

Loughrea

Electoral division

Cappard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

121 people lived in 42 households in the Cappard electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynahowna, Farnaun, Gardenblake, Gorteenaniska, Lissadoill

Placenames

Cappard Demesne 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.