Cappaleitrim
Cappaleitrim is a townland in the civil parish of Moore, barony of Moycarn, Co. Roscommon.
- Area
- 216.7 ha
- 535 acres
- Land parcels
- 92
- registered freehold, median 16,682 m² (1.67 ha, 4.12 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
92 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cappaleitrim, from 80 m² to 105,225 m² (10.52 ha, 26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cappaleitrim 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
29 Jul 2019Conditional
to (a) demolish the existing dwelling house and ancillary buildings which are ancillary in the use to the dwelling house and which are used for domestic purposes only (b) Prohibit the future use and/or development of the property (c) removal of all services including septic tank and any other waste receptors and hard surfacing (d) Returning the property to an agricultural farm land and all associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 19385
22 Jul 2019Conditional
to demolish existing dwelling house and garage with granny flat and to decommission septic tank & percolation area and all associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 19372
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: River Shannon Callows SAC 000216
- Special Protection Area: Middle Shannon Callows SPA 004096
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: River Shannon Callows 000216
Recorded monuments
- RO056-030 Boundary mound
Description
Marked only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a boundary mound from the 19th century on the mearing between Cappaleitrim to the N and Raghrabeg to the S. It is now removed, in a Bord na Mona worked bog. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO056-045 Burial
Description
In October 2000 a single human bone, a right tibia, was recovered from the spoil heap of a drainage operation at the boundary of Cappaleitrim and Cloonburren. It was acquired by the National Museum of Ireland (2000:70), but no futher remains came to light. (Sikora and Cahill 2011, vol. 2, P 509, 7.176) Compiled by: Michael Moore. Date of Upload: 20 March, 2012.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cappaleitrim.
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 Cappaleitrim, 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1493 (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 Cappaleitrim with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Cappaleitrim
- Area
- 2,166,645 m² (216.66 ha, 535.39 acres)
- Civil parish
- Moore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moycarn
- Electoral division
- Cloonburren, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 231 people lived in 75 households in the Cloonburren electoral division. 96% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloonburren, Cornaveagh, Raghrabeg
- Placenames
- Cappaleitrim 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.