Cappa

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cappa, from 552 m² to 227,468 m² (22.75 ha, 56.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Cappa 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 Sept 2018Conditional

  a) retention of the change of use of existing outbuilding from agricultural to living accommodation, b) permission for a single storey extension to the existing outbuilding consisting of additional living accommodation (this extension will form one single dwelling house when combined with the existing outbuilding), c) permission for a new septic tank & percolation area to replace the existing substandard septic tank, d) permission to demolish an existing substandard dwelling house & e) all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18601172

• 8 Mar 2018N/a

  demolition of existing substandard dwellinghouse and outbuilding, construction of a replacement single storey dwellinghouse, installation of a new septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 18600281

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 Cappa.

Recorded monuments

• TN021-024001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Situated on a N-facing slope, with rock outcrop, in relatively flat pastureland. A moated site (TN021-024002-) is located c. 160m to the W. Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as a 'castle all ruined ye walls onely standinge with a little barbicon' (Simington 1934, vol. 2, 222). The land at Borris is divided between several landowners including 'Mathew Meara of Cappagh gent[,]Sir Jon. Magrath of Allevollane in ye Barny of ClanWm. Knight[,]Donogh Meara of Knockaneglash Gent. Irish Papists' (ibid.). A rectangular, four-storey building (ext. dims. 6.2m N-S; 7.5m E-W; wall T 1.2m) of roughly coursed rubble limestone with base-batter (H 2m); all quoins have been robbed. The entrance at ground-floor level in the E wall has been broken out, and the spiral stairs in the SE angle have collapsed above first-floor level. The ground-floor barrel vault, orientated on an E-W axis, has collapsed at the E end. The other main chambers were carried on timber floors. A recess in the NE angle extends from the ground floor up to second-floor level. The first floor has two gun loops on either side of a broken-out window in the W wall, an angle loop in the NW angle and a broken-out window in the N wall. There is a garderobe chamber at first-floor level in the S wall - the chute exits 0.7m above external ground level. The second floor has a niche in the S wall containing two blocked-up gun loops. There are windows in the W and N walls and a large fireplace in the E wall with missing surrounds. Two small chambers, one on top of the other, occupy the E end of the second floor. The upper chamber is roofed with a barrel vault. The third and fourth floors contain cupboards and window features, with gun-niches visible at latter level. There are the remains of a gable above the fourth floor on the W wall. All surviving windows are flat-headed, single or two-light. The shadow of a gable in the external E wall indicates a former adjoining building. The presence of gun loops and diagnostic tooling on the stonework suggest a sixteenth-century date for this tower house. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN021-024002 Moated site
  Description

  Situated in low-lying terrain, sloping gently to the N in pastureland. A tower house (TN021-024001) is located c. 160m to the E. A roughly square, denuded enclosure (41m N-S; 43.2m E-W) defined by a bank reduced to a scarp (int. H 0.16m; ext. H 0.66m) and a flat-bottomed, waterlogged fosse (Wth 4.2m; D 0.26m). Shallow gap (Wth 2.6m) through bank in SE angle. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cappa.

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 Cappa, 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.

Terrain model

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

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 Cappa with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Cappa · An Cheapach

Area

1,195,294 m² (119.53 ha, 295.36 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymackey, and its townlands

Barony

Ormond Upper

Electoral division

Ballymackey, the unit of the census

Census 2022

582 people lived in 207 households in the Ballymackey electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Donnybrook, Gortnadrumman, Lisnamoe, Riverlawn, Ummera, Woodville

Placenames

Cappa 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.