Cappagh

201 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cappagh, from 66 m² to 776,553 m² (77.66 ha, 191.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 39 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.

• 11 Oct 2023Conditional

  construction of (a) part two-storey, part single story dwelling, (b) detached domestic garage & store, and (c) install a proprietary wastewater treatment system with percolation area & all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2360342

• 27 Jul 2023Refused

  construction of (a) part two-storey, part single story dwelling, (b) detached domestic garage & store, and (c) install a proprietary wastewater treatment system with percolation area & all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2360240

• 2 May 2023Conditional

  (a) construction of an eight bay shed which will consist of slatted area with slurry holding tank underneath and cubicles. (b) Construct an agricultural shed which will consist of a milking parlour, cow drafting yard, plant room and slatted collection yard with slurry holding tank underneath and all associated site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2357

• 6 Nov 2020Conditional

  Permission to construct a part single storey part storey and a half type dwelling, detached domestic garage and store, install a proprietary wastewater treatment system and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 206312

• 4 Sept 2018Conditional

  construction of a bungalow type dwelling house with detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable onsite sewerage treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 186272

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Garriskil Bog SAC 000679
• Special Protection Area: Garriskil Bog SPA 004102
• Natural Heritage Area: Lough Garr NHA 001812
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Garriskil Bog 000679

Recorded monuments

• WM006-022 Moated site
  Description

  Situated on the NE slope of a gently rising but prominent ridge, now surrounded by coniferous plantation as shown on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Lough Garr now drained and survives as a bog 250m to SW with River Riffey and bogland 450m to NE. Earthwork (WM006-028----) 380m to SE. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a sub-rectangular shaped enclosure or earthwork (approx. diam. 30m NE-SW; 15m NW-SE dim). The earthwork has been levelled and is now visible only as a dark band of vegetation (Wth 6m). A gap (Wth 2m) in this crop mark at ESE may represent the location of an entrance. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 30 January 2017

• WM006-028 Enclosure
  Description

  Annotated on the OS Fair Plan as ‘fort’, and depicted as a sub-rectangular field on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map, it has been partially levelled since then. This appears to have been a small field. No evidence of an antiquity at this location. Not depicted as an antiquity on any edition of the OS maps. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 30 January 2017

• WM006-029 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on low lying pasture-land, 120m E of a stream which is a tributary of the Inny River. Bog 90m to N and 130m to W. Ringfort (WM006-047----) 140m to SE. A sub-circular area (approx. diam. 31m N-S; 30m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank which has been levelled from W-N, and a wide shallow fosse (Wth 5m). The interior slopes slightly from NW-SE with traces of cultivation ridges running across the monument. A series of banks and depressions in the vicinity appear to be drainage features. This site is now surrounded by a forestry plantation visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 30 January 2017

• WM006-047 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a low rise in pasture-land in gently undulating pasture-land. Bog 250m to W. Ringfort (WM006-029----) 400m to NW. Slightly raised circular area (approx. diam. 37m N-S; 39m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank, best preserved from S-W-NNW, and external fosse. Possible entrance gap at E. The raised interior slopes slightly from N-S, with traces of cultivation ridges visible. A standing stone (WM006-047001-) is visible in the SW quadrant of the interior. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 1 February 2017

• WM006-047001 Standing stone
  Description

  Situated on a low rise in gently undulating pasture-land. Bog 250m to W. Ringfort (WM006-029----) 400m to NW. Tall slender limestone standing stone (approx. H 2.1m) in SW quadrant of ringfort (WM006-043---). Rectangular in plan and tapering towards the top with some spalling and splitting of the surface due to weathering. The stone has been reused as a scratching post. Vague traces of two concentric slightly grooved or pecked circles on E face. Socket stones visible at base. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 1 February 2017

• WM006-071 Burial
  Description

  In May 1988 an inhumation burial was discovered during the removal of a field fence on a farm. It had a covering of limestone pebbles and appears to have been in an unlined grave. No accompanying artifacts were found. The human remains represented an adult, probably male. Two samples were giving dates of 275+-40 BP and 245 +- BP which calibrate to AD 1480-1800 and AD 1510-1950 respectively (NMI).

• WM006-075 Bridge
  Description

  No surface remains visible of the medieval bridge of Ballinalack that is depicted on the 1659 Down Survey barony maps of Moygoish and Corkaree (NLI, MS 723-4). The bridge traversed the Inny River and was situated along an important medieval routeway connecting the medieval towns of Mullingar and Longford . The terrier of the Down Survey map of Corkerry Barony recorded that ‘issuing out of the said Loughagarne is called the River Ihny upon wch is a bridge at Ballinelack wch is the cheife pass into this country’ (ibid.). The bridge was guarded by two castles (WM006-048----; WM006-049----) on the Ballinalack side which are depicted on the 1654-56 Down Survey map of Leny parish. In 1682 Sir Henry Piers of Tristernagh described Ballinalack Briddge as an 'antient and well built bridge, which having of late been very incommodious and dangerous for travellers, is now very well repaired, adorned and rendered safe for them at the charge of the county' (Vallancey 1786, 4). The present Ballinalack Bridge dates from 1874 and replaced an earlier five arch bridge. This earlier bridge was described in 1837 as, ‘situated on the banks of the River Inny, over which is a bridge of five arches, and on the road from Mullingar to Longford’ (Lewis 1837, 109). The present bridge described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage consists of a ‘twin-arched road bridge over River Inny, dated 1874. Now out of use and superseded by a modern bridge to the south. Constructed of coursed squared limestone rubble with rusticated rock-faced limestone voussoirs to arches and rusticated limestone copping over parapet. Projecting V-profile cut water to central pier. This bridge replaced an earlier five arch bridge located at this site, at a time when the River Inny was considerably wider at this point’(www.buildingsofireland.ie). A date-stone on the N face of the S parapet wall of the bridge bears the inscription ‘ 1874 Ballinalack Bridge Rebuilt by Upper Inny Drainage Board James Dillon Engineer’. Compiled and revised by: Caimin O’Brien Date of revised upload: 20 July 2017

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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

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.

No address of the register names Cappagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Cappagh · An Cheapach

Area

4,654,238 m² (465.42 ha, 1,150.09 acres)

Civil parish

Russagh, and its townlands

Barony

Moygoish

Electoral division

Ballinalack, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinalack, Ballyharney, Barratogher, Corrydonnellan, Culvin, Garriskil, Grange, Joanstown

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. 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.