Cappagh

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cappagh, from 1,012 m² to 554,093 m² (55.41 ha, 136.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 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.

• 10 Oct 2025Conditional

  for construction of proposed dwelling house, domestic garage/shed, proprietary treatment system & percolation area, and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561483

• 2 Aug 2022Conditional

  to demolish existing dwelling house and construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment system and private garage/store to include all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 170.70sqm & Garage/Fuel shed: 53.94sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22929

• 2 Aug 2017Conditional

  for change of house plans from those previously granted under planning reference number 16/1688 and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 257sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171167

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Lurgeen Bog/Glenamaddy Turlough SAC 000301
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Lurgeen Bog/Glenamaddy Turlough 000301

Recorded monuments

• GA031-005 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  In undulating grassland, in the former demesne of Cappagh House. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a subrectangular enclosure (N-S c. 40m). According to local information, it contained a copse of trees and was levelled c. twenty years ago. No visible surface trace survives. 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

• GA031-006 Enclosure
  Description

  In undulating grassland, in the former demesne of Cappagh House. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular tree-planted enclosure. The trees appear to have been removed by the time of 3rd ed. (1931) when it appears as a plain circular enclosure (D c. 40m). According to local information, it was removed during land clearance some twenty years ago, but is remembered as an elevated area of tree stumps surrounded by a earthen bank and outer fosse. No visible surface trace survives. Possibly a tree-ring or a landscaped ringfort. 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

• GA031-007 Designed landscape feature
  Description

  In undulating grassland, in the demesne of Cappagh House. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (D c. 20m) containing trees. According to local information, a tree copse was levelled here twenty years ago during land clearance. No visible surface trace survives. 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

• GA031-008 Enclosure
  Description

  In low-lying grassland. Very poorly preserved subcircular enclosure (N-S 85m, E-W 60m) defined by a scarp and a possible external fosse from S through W to N. The curving td. boundary wall appears to define the limits of E half of the monument but no visible surface trace survives in this sector. This monument also extends on to OS sheet No. 32 (GA032-014----). 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

• Cappagh House, house, 1680–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c.1700 and remodelled c.1800, having slightly recessed later end bays, and slightly lower three-bay two-storey return to rear. Pitched sprocketed slate roof, gabled and with rendered end chimneystacks to original house, and hipped to later end bays. Rendered walls, c.90cm thick, with parallel raised quoins. Square-headed windows having render architraves with keystones, and curvilinear decoration under painted limestone sills. Square-headed doorway with later parallel raised quoins and replacement timber door. Interesting ceiling construction with central beams in each room below ceiling proper.

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 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 low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

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

2,659,653 m² (265.97 ha, 657.21 acres)

Civil parish

Kilkerrin, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Curraghmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

198 people lived in 66 households in the Curraghmore electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ashfield, Carrowntober East, Corramaeeagh, Curragh Beg, Curragh More, Derrooghs, Glen, Rockfield East

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.