Knockacappul

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockacappul, from 679 m² to 110,971 m² (11.1 ha, 27.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Knockacappul 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Knockacappul in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Knockacappul.

Recorded monuments

• SL035-015001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pasture, overlooking a stream and steep-sided valley to N. Incorporating a low flat-topped natural hillock and truncated at W by a drystone field boundary. A roughly semicircular area (28m N-S; 21.5m E-W) defined by a moss-covered stone wall (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.9m) N-S. The wall consists of rubble limestone with occasional larger blocks and the only evidence for an external facing is a single upright limestone slab (H 1.25m; Wth 1m; T 0.4m) at E. There are no visible remains of this wall S-N. A fosse (D 0.8m) is evident N-NE. Due to the natural hillock the interior is raised above the level of the enclosing wall. The hillock is roughly circular and flat-topped (7m N-S; 6m E-W; H 0.75m) with gently sloping sides. There is a souterrain (SL035-015002-) in the interior. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL035-015002 Souterrain
  Description

  In a rath (SL035-015001-), on the N side of a central hillock. A sloping trench (L 4m; Wth 2.5m; D 0.4m; long axis N-S) with an opening (1.5m x 1.5m), blocked with earth and stone, is visible 4m N of the base of the hillock. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL035-028 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough pasture, near the base of a W-facing slope and on the SE side of a field boundary. A roughly circular area (int. diam. 15.9m x 18.8m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2.3m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.55m), covered with overgrowth along the W arc. A field boundary has been built on top of the bank on the NW arc. The interior is level and overgrown with holly and brambles. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL035-029 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In wet pasture, near the base of an E-facing ridge and on the SW side of a field boundary. A raised roughly circular area (int. diam. 16.8m) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 1.65m; int. H 0.5m). A silt-filled external fosse (Wth 2.2m; D 1.2m) is evident along the E arc. The bank is covered with hazel trees. The interior is waterlogged and overgrown with brambles. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL035-030 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough pasture, on top of a ridge with a steep slope to E and a gentle slope to W and occupying the entire width of a narrow field. A circular area (18.3m x 18m), truncated on the W arc by a field boundary, enclosed by an eroded bank (Wth 2.3m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.45m). The interior rises gently towards the centre. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knockacappul, 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.

Terrain model

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

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 Knockacappul with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Knockacappul · Cnoc an Chapaill

Area

441,962 m² (44.2 ha, 109.21 acres)

Civil parish

Killadoon, and its townlands

Barony

Tirerrill

Electoral division

Killadoon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

276 people lived in 104 households in the Killadoon electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bullaun, Garoke, Rannatruffaun East, Rannatruffaun West

Placenames

Knockacappul 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.