Cappagh

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cappagh, from 846 m² to 214,939 m² (21.49 ha, 53.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Cappagh 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 Cappagh 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 Cappagh.

Recorded monuments

• SL034-104 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough pasture, on top of a low ridge. A raised circular area (diam. 24m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.2m) along the E and S arcs and by a scarp (H 1m) along the W and N arcs. Some stones along the base of the internal face of the bank may be the remains of kerbstones. An external fosse (Wth 2m) is evident as a shallow depression with a thick growth of irises. 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

• SL034-105 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pasture, on top of a ridge. A raised circular area (diam. 33m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.7m) which is best preserved along the W arc. An external fosse (Wth 3m) is evident as a slight depression covered with nettles along the N and NE arcs. There is a possible entrance at SE where the external bank face is less steeply inclined. The interior is level. A NW-SE field boundary abuts the rath at NW. The rath was recorded in 1836 as 'Cappagh Fort' (OSNB vol. 2, 227). 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

• SL034-107 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pasture, on top of a ridge. A raised circular area (int. diam. 24m) defined by a scarp (H 0.9m) with an external fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.7m) along the W arc. A N-S field boundary is built over the E edge of the rath. 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 Cappagh.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Cappagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Cappagh · An Cheapach

Area

744,086 m² (74.41 ha, 183.87 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmorgan, and its townlands

Barony

Corran

Electoral division

Bricklieve, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Bricklieve electoral division: 213 people in 85 households; 94% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cams, Doonmeegin, Drumcormick, Kilmorgan, Knockmoynagh, Lisdoogan, Lugacaha, Tiraree

Placenames

Cappagh 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.