Caplahard

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.

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 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.

• 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.

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).

Radon

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

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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 Caplahard with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

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

Census 2022

Glassan electoral division: 922 people in 302 households; 88% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

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. 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.