Cappalahan
Townland in the civil parish of Bourney, barony of Ikerrin, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Ceapach Laithín
- Area
- 329 ha
- 813 acres
- Land parcels
- 89
- registered freehold, median 3,064 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
89 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cappalahan, from 450 m² to 403,049 m² (40.3 ha, 99.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cappalahan 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
28 Nov 2022Conditional
amending the design of the previously approved development (Planning Reference: 19601323, Tipperary County Council) which comprises consent for a 10 year period to construct and a 40 year period to operate a 29.09 hectare Solar PV Energy Development at Derrymore Townland, Roscrea, Co Tipperary. The proposed amendments include; (1) changes to the configuration of the Solar PV rows, (2) reduction in the height of the Solar PV panels, (3) slight increase in the bottom height of the Solar PV panels, (4) reduction in the spacing of Solar PV rows (strings), (5) increase in size of solar panels, (6) increase in solar panel output, (7) a change in solar panels tilt (degree) and (8) a decrease in the number of solar panels. A Natura Impact Statement will also be submitted to the Planning Authority for this proposed development
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 22652
28 Nov 2019Conditional
the erection of a 29.09 Hectare Solar PV Farm. The proposed solar farm will consist of the installation of a 40 year operation and subsequent decommissioning of a series of ground mounted solar photovoltaic PV Panels, mounted on steel support structures 2.885m in height, together with a single storey ESB Control Room, connection to nearby ESB Substation, 9 electrical transformation enclosures, underground cabling, CCTV poles and cameras, deer type security fencing around the site boundary, Site Entrance access roads, Temporary Construction Compound Area, Landscaping and other associated development works, for the purpose of generating renewable energy electricity
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19601323
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
- Natural Heritage Area: Nore Valley Bogs NHA 001853
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cappalahan.
Architectural heritage
- The Rectory, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey rectory, built c.1860, with return to west and mono-pitch two-storey extension to west. Gabled parapets to first floor windows and canted bay windows to ground. Later used as RIC barracks, now in use as private house. Pitched artificial slate roofs having rendered chimneystacks, that to south gable projecting. Rendered walls. Square-headed timber casement windows with sandstone sills. Square-headed front door opening with four-centred timber frame and glazed timber door, with sandstone steps and timber door with paned over-light to rear. Two storey outbuilding with rendered rubble walls, pitched slate roof with stone eaves course and square-headed openings, forming one side of yard to rear of house.
- Christ Church (Corbally), mill (water), 1825–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding two-storey watermill, converted 1829 to provide Church of Ireland church to first floor and school to ground, and further altered and tower built 1842. Latin cross plan with four-bay main elevations, single-bay transepts with three-bay gables, apse and polygonal projection to north end and square four-stage entrance tower to south end. Pitched artificial slate roofs and with octagonal-plan arcaded belfry to tower with octagonal pyramidal roof with supporting brackets and with finial. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with render string courses and with roundels to tower, one with clock. Round-arch timber windows to upper floor and square-headed replacement timber windows to lower. Round-headed upper entrance doorway with timber panelled double-leaf door reached by flight of limestone steps and with plaque of 1842 explaining history of building. Round-headed doorway with spoked fanlight and square-headed doorway with paned over-light in east wall and round-headed doorway in north elevation, all with replacement timber doors and serving lower floor. Sandstone boundary walls with cast-iron gates.
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
- 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 Cappalahan.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cappalahan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Cappalahan · Ceapach Laithín
- Area
- 3,289,558 m² (328.96 ha, 812.87 acres)
- Civil parish
- Bourney, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ikerrin
- Electoral division
- Timoney, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Timoney electoral division: 401 people in 136 households; 93% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bawnmadrum, Bawnmadrum North, Derrymore, Gortnacally, Timoney
- Placenames
- Cappalahan 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.