Cappoge

667 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cappoge, from 2 m² to 467,716 m² (46.77 ha, 115.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 45 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

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Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cappoge.

Recorded monuments

• DU014-027 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Gabriel Beranger's drawing of 1776 shows a three-storey tower at the south-eastern corner of a walled enclosure (Harbison 1998, 68-9). In 1778 when Austin Cooper visited Cappoge Castle it stood as a three-storey tower house with corner turret in the SE (Price 1942, 37). It was associated with the Woodcock family from the 13th to the 16th century (Ball 1920, 18-19). Demolished before 1860 (Healy 1975, 27). Not visible at ground level. Excavations (Licence nos. 06E0228ext and 08E0032ext) were undertaken north of the site of Cappogue castle in advance of the Ballycoolin Road Realignment. The standing remains of a structure appear to have incorporated part of the remains of the gatehouse of the castle but no definite remains of the tower house were identified on this site and it is highly likely that the stone from this structure was re-used after it fell into disuse in the 17th century (McQuade 2010, 87). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 23 January 2015

• DU014-028 Habitation site
  Description

  Investigations on the NE Gas Pipeline, Phase 1 Report identified remains of a habitation site of uncertain date (Gowen 1984, 67-8). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• DU014-029 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Situated within rough grazing, on flat land which slopes away slightly to the south west, now bounded to south by Heathfield housing estate and to north by the M50. This site comprises a circular platform (diam. 34m; H 1-1.8m). The bank has not survived and there are no traces of an external fosse. The entrance may have been in the west where farm machinery has damaged the site. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by; Christine Baker Date of upload: 23 January 2015

• DU014-116001 Habitation site
  Description

  Excavation (Licence nos. 06E0288ext. and 08E0032ext.) undertaken at the site in advance of the Ballycoolin road realignment indicated that it was used for domestic occupation and agricultural activity during the medieval period. Ditches, drains, gullies and cobbling were defined by boundary enclosures. Several possible structures were external to the enclosing elements. Local wares dominated the medieval pottery assemblage although there were some imported wares from England and France. A few items of personal dress were recovered including trapezoidal buckles, annular brooches and leather shoe fragments. The features and finds uncovered indicate the site was a large medieval settlement (c. 210m by 120m) on either side of Ballycoolin Road, around the site of Cappogue castle, occupied during the late 12th – 15th centuries (McQuade 2007). Compiled by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 6 February 2015

• DU014-116002 Structure
  Description

  Excavation (Licence nos. 06E0288ext. and 08E0032ext.) undertaken at the site in advance of the Ballycoolin road realignment indicated that the area close to the ‘site of’ Cappogue Castle (DU014-027---- ) was used for domestic occupation and agricultural activity during the medieval period. This monument was one of several possible structures identified and comprised foundations trenches that formed a rectangular building (11.7m x 6m) on an E-W axis. Pottery recovered from the vicinity indicates occupation during the 12th – 14th centuries (McQuade 2010, 76). Compiled by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 6 February 2015

• DU014-116003 Structure
  Description

  Excavation (Licence nos. 06E0288ext. and 08E0032ext.) was undertaken at the site in advance of the Ballycoolin road realignment. It indicated that the area close to the ‘site of’ Cappogue Castle (DU014-027---- ) was used for domestic occupation and agricultural activity during the medieval period. Located adjacent to structure (DU014-16002-) this monument was one of several possible structures identified and comprised foundations two perpendicular slot trenches (9m long). Pottery recovered from the vicinity indicates occupation during the 12th – 14th centuries (McQuade 2010, 76). Compiled by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 6 February 2015

• DU014-117 Burial ground
  Description

  Excavation (Licence no. 06E0288) was undertaken at the site in advance of the Premier Business Park development. Located to the SE was a much-disturbed burial ground. At least sixteen individuals were aligned E-W and enclosed by a deep ditch and orientated in a NE-SW direction, but only a short section of this ditch survived. Another burial was found c. 75m to the NE of the main burial-ground: that individual was facing southwards (McQuade 2009). Compiled by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 6 February 2015

• DU014-118 Enclosure
  Description

  Excavation (Licence no. 06E0288) was undertaken at the site in advance of the Premier Business Park development. A large L-shaped ditch (3.9m w. x 1.74m max. depth) extended N – S for 53.4m and the E return extended for c. 20m. The size of this ditch and its organic waterlogged fill indicates that it could represent the remains of a moat that may have delimited the earlier settlement on this site, prior to the construction of the recorded Cappogue Castle (DU014-027----). Pottery recovered from the moat indicates occupation during the 12th – 14th centuries (McQuade 2009). Compiled by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 6 February 2015

• DU014-127 Enclosure
  Description

  Located in an arable field, c. 990m NE of the site of Cappoge Castle (DU014-027----), differential vegetation growth forming a subcircular enclosure is visible on Google Earth imagery (24 June 2018). The enclosure (dims. c. 69m N–S and c. 73m E–W) is defined by a ditch (Wth c. 1m). Test excavations have taken place here in recent times. Tom Condit, Archaeologist, National Monuments Service Uploaded on 20 April 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Cappoge, 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. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3146 (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 Cappoge with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.

Name

Cappoge · Ceapach

Area

2,760,164 m² (276.02 ha, 682.05 acres)

Civil parish

Castleknock, and its townlands

Barony

Castleknock

Electoral division

The Ward, the unit of the census

Census 2022

13,289 people lived in 3,674 households in the The Ward electoral division. 63% of households owned their home. 88% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycoolen, Dunsink, Grange, Huntstown, Kildonan, Sheephill

Placenames

Cappoge 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.