Cappagh

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cappagh, from 102 m² to 179,509 m² (17.95 ha, 44.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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 Cappagh 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.

• 26 Jan 2026Refused

  for a farm road

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2660091

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 Cappagh.

Recorded monuments

• GA074-019 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In undulating grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular ringfort (N-S 38m, E-W 35m) defined by two stone-faced earthen banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank survives from NW through E to SE; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. The outer bank is overlain by a field wall throughout and does not survive from ENE to ESE. A gap (Wth 6m) at S may be original. There is a possible souterrain (GA074-019001-) within the interior. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA074-019001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within W half of a ringfort (GA074-019----). What is visible is a roughly pear-shaped hollow (L 8.8m, Wth 2.5m max.), up to 1m in depth, its long axis running NNE-SSW. Two opposing flagstones, 1m apart, protrude from the sod towards the shallower NNE end. Large stones are evident along the sides and bottom in this area, dividing the hollow into two unequal parts. The remains are open to interpretation as a robbed-out souterrain chamber and creep, but could also represent those of a poorly preserved limekiln. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA087-021 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In undulating grassland. Very poorly preserved rath defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank survives from SE to SW, while the fosse and outer bank survive only from SE to S; the latter may have been removed during construction of the railway line to S. Extensive quarrying has occurred from SW to NW. A GBG (GA087-021001-) occupies the interior. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA087-021001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Within a ringfort (GA087-021----). A trapezoidal-shaped CBG (E-W 15.8m, N-S 12.5m max.) within which numerous set stones indicate graves oriented E-W. A large quantity of burials are concentrated around a hawthorn tree at W. (Egan 1960, 14) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA087-023 Standing stone
  Description

  In grassland, 280m ENE of Cappage bridge. A squat granite boulder (H 1.1), roughly D-shaped in plan, its long axis running NNE-SSW. A notable groove across the top may be natural. Considered by Wade to be a 'monumental stone' (Topgr. Files, NMI): according to local tradition a stone 'axehead' was found in its vicinity. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1850–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch limestone railway bridge, built 1851, carrying minor road over Galway to Dublin railway line. Rock-faced rusticated limestone walls and voussoirs to segmental arch, dressed limestone parapet walls. Recent approach railings.

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 Cappagh, about 1 in 20 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Cappagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Cappagh · An Cheapach

Area

1,711,314 m² (171.13 ha, 422.87 acres)

Civil parish

Kilgerrill, and its townlands

Barony

Kilconnell

Electoral division

Aughrim, the unit of the census

Census 2022

576 people lived in 198 households in the Aughrim electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Dundoogan, Gortnaglogh, Highfield, Kilmalaw, Northbrook, Srah

Placenames

Cappagh 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.