Clonard or Cappaloughlin
Clonard or Cappaloughlin is a townland in the civil parish of Abbeyleix, barony of Maryborough West, Co. Laois. Its name in Irish is Ceapach Laichnín nó Cluain Ard.
Parcel 5777982
- Area
- 109,289 m² (10.93 ha, 27.01 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 82 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Clonard or Cappaloughlin
Planning applications on this parcel
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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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 5 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 this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 645.2 ha
- 1,594 acres
- Land parcels
- 222
- registered freehold, median 6,240 m² (0.62 ha, 1.54 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- —
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
222 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clonard or Cappaloughlin, from 11 m² to 520,322 m² (52.03 ha, 128.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 57 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Clonard or Cappaloughlin 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
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Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
- Special Protection Area: River Nore SPA 004233
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Forest House Wood 000874
Recorded monuments
- LA017-009 Enclosure
Description
Possible circular enclosure visible on aerial photographs (GSI, S 161-2). Remains of low bank (Wth c. 2.5m, int. H c. 0.3m, ext. H c. 0.7m) survive from NW-NE. No other visible surface remains. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007
Architectural heritage
- Kilbricken Bridge, bridge, 1780–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Seven-arch road bridge over river Nore, c. 1800, with triangular cut-waters.
- Mounthrath and Castletown Railway Station, railway station, 1845–1865 · Regional interest
Description
Detached two-bay two-storey railway station, c. 1850, with five-bay single-storey wing to left having gabled projecting porches. Now derelict.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Clonard or Cappaloughlin, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2031 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Clonard or Cappaloughlin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.
The townland
- Name
- Clonard or Cappaloughlin · Ceapach Laichnín nó Cluain Ard
- Area
- 6,451,903 m² (645.19 ha, 1,594.3 acres)
- Civil parish
- Abbeyleix, and its townlands
- Barony
- Maryborough West
- Electoral division
- Donore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 486 people lived in 157 households in the Donore electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballycleary, Boston or Coolballyogan, Clonbane, Clonrud, Coole, Derry More, Forest, Gash, Kilbrickan, Mountrath, Parkavilla, Tarbert, Trumra
- Placenames
- Clonard or Cappaloughlin 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.