Caplahard
Townland in the civil parish of Kilkenny West, barony of Kilkenny West, Co. Westmeath
Parcel 6151600
- Area
- 91,363 m² (9.14 ha, 22.58 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- 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
- Caplahard
Planning applications on this parcel
12 Dec 2017N/a
The development will consist of a raw water intake works and WTP. The Intake Works will contain a building incorporating a pump room, control rooms, (¡Ü7.0m high above a 6.4m deep sump) and ESB substation, siteworks and landscaping at the Portaneena Amenity Area. The WTP will contain the following structures: 3 Nr Inlet Contact Tanks: ¡Ü5.0m (h = height) Main treatment building:¡Ü9.6m (h); Chemical Storage Tanks: 2 Nr @ 8.0m (h), 2 Nr @5.2m (h) and 4 Nr @ 4.5m (h); 5 Nr Filters:¡Ü5.5m (h) Pipework Gallery: ¡Ü7.5m (h) Backwash Tank:¡Ü3.5m (h) Contact/Clear Water Tank: ¡Ü3.5m (h) Used Washwater Tank: ¡Ü3.5m (h) Dewatering Building : ¡Ü8.8m (h) 2 Nr Washwater Clarifiers: ¡Ü7.0m (h) 2 Nr Sludge Thickening Tanks: ¡Ü5.5m (h) Sludge Balance Tank: ¡Ü5.5m (h) Chemical Dosing Building: ¡Ü7.5m (h) Pump Building:¡Ü4.7m (h) ESB substation with MCC room: ¡Ü3.2m (h) Admin/Control Building: ¡Ü6.2m (h) The development will also include access and site roadways, parking and hardstanding areas, landscaping, external lighting, security fencing, drainage and all associated ancillary works and infrastructure and other enabling civil works. Significant additional data and a revised NIS in relation to this application have been furnished to the planning authority and are available for inspection or purchase at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of making a copy.
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 177222
2 Oct 2017N/a
The proposed development comprises a raw water Intake Works and Water Treatment Plant (WTP) at Killinure Lough within the Portaneena townland, Athlone, Co Westmeath. The Intake Works will contain a building incorporating a pump room, control rooms, and ESB substation ( 7.0m high above a 6.35m deep sump) siteworks and landscaping at the Portaneena Amenity Area. The WTP will contain the following structures: 3 NR Inlet Contact Tanks: 5.0m (h); Main treatment building: 9.6m (h); Chemical storage tanks: 2 Nr @ 8m (h), 2 Nr @ 5.2 (h) and 4 Nr @4.5m (h); 5 Nr Filters: 5.5m (h), pipework gallery 7.5 m (h); Backwash tank 3.5m (h); used washwater tank 3.5m (h) Dewatering building:8.8m (h); 2 Nr Washwater clarifiers: 7.0 m (h) 2 Nr sludge Thickening Tanks: 5.5m (h) Sludge Balance Tank:5.5m (h)Chemical dosing building 7.46m (h), pump building 4.7m (h) ESB substation with MCC room: 3.237m (h) Admin/Control Building 6.3m (h). The development will also include access and site roadways, parking and hardstanding areas, landscaping, external lighting, security fencing, drainage and all associated ancillary works and other enabling works.
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 177183
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
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.
- WM022-040 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a gentle NE-facing slope, toward the summit of a prominent hill, in pasture and overlooking Killinure Lough to W, good views to NE and E. Annotated 'Fort' on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map where it is depicted as a roughly circular-shaped tree-planted earthwork. Levelled monument described in 1971 as no surface remains visible. There are a few irregular depressions across the site and a slight growth of gorse. Barely visible outline of levelled monument visible today on Digital Globe aerial photograph. May have been a ringfort that was reused as a tree-ring associated with Easthill Ho. located 200m to SSE. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 17 July 2019
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).
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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
- 17.3 ha
- 43 acres
- Land parcels
- 7
- registered freehold, median 3,300 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caplahard, from 482 m² to 144,895 m² (14.49 ha, 35.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Caplahard 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
22 Sept 2025Conditional
construction of a domestic dwelling house, new treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2560460
10 Nov 2020Conditional
A single storey 46sqm extension and the subdivision of the existing dwelling to form an independent granny flat, and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 207176
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Caplahard.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Caplahard.
Architectural heritage
- Easthill House, house, 1800–1805 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey house, built in 1803, having two-storey return to the rear (south). Hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves with rendered chimneystacks having terracotta chimney pots over. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered eaves course. Square-headed window openings with tooled stone sills and nine-over-six pane Wyatt timber sliding sash windows to the front façade and six-over-six pane and three-over-three pane Wyatt windows to side elevations (east and west). Central round-headed door opening, contained within a concaved recessed surround, having glazed timber double doors with spoke fanlight over. Set back from road in extensive mature grounds to the south of Glassan. Main entrance gates to the north comprising four moulded ashlar limestone gate piers on square-plan having cast-iron gates and double gates (centre). Main gates flanked by a modernised three-bay single-storey gate lodge, now in use as a private house. Rubble limestone boundary walls to the road-frontage. Outbuildings to the rear (south), not viewed.
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).
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Caplahard with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- Name
- Caplahard
- Area
- 173,318 m² (17.33 ha, 42.83 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilkenny West, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilkenny West
- Electoral division
- Glassan, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annagh, Ballaghkeeran Big, Portaneena, Waterstown
- Placenames
- Caplahard on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.