Cappagh
Townland in the civil parish of Ballinacor, barony of Ballinacor South, Co. Wicklow; in Irish An Cheapach
- Area
- 235.1 ha
- 581 acres
- Land parcels
- 73
- registered freehold, median 7,218 m² (0.72 ha, 1.78 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
73 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cappagh, from 31 m² to 264,272 m² (26.43 ha, 65.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
2 Dec 2022Conditional
1. demolition of existing sub-standard rear and side extensions comprising of approx. 59sqm, resulting in the existing dwelling having a gross floor area of 88sqm; 2. construction of a new 308sqm single storey extension consisting of a living block, a 4-bed bedroom block and an entrance and link element; 3. construction of a 68sqm basement; 4. renovation of and internal alterations to existing dwelling; 5. construction of a new wastewater treatment system; 6. Creation of pond water feature to front of existing dwelling; 7. new 20sqm service structure to house plant and equipment to facilitate renewable technologies; 8. new vehicular entrance; 9. all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221289
6 Aug 2020N/a
residential dwelling, detached garage, upgrading of an existing access, proposed foul and surface water drainage treatment, well & associated engineering work
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 20755
14 Jul 2020Conditional
as constructed substructure base to side of existing dwelling to accommodate extension and permission to complete extension to the side of existing dwelling and permission to upgrade existing percolation area to comply with current EPA requirements and associated works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 20669
6 Jul 2017Conditional
bungalow, well, new entrance off existing lane and for a new effluent treatment system to current EPA standards and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 17821
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 Cappagh.
Recorded monuments
- WI034-034 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a gentle SE-facing slope in pasture. Circular enclosure (diam. 32m) defined by a low earthen bank (Wth 4-5m). Possible entrance gap at the SE, but there is no indication of a fosse or internal features. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 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).
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 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cappagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Cappagh · An Cheapach
- Area
- 2,351,436 m² (235.14 ha, 581.05 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballinacor, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballinacor South
- Electoral division
- Ballinacor, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballinacor electoral division: 369 people in 119 households; 82% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymanus, Coolgarrow, Craffield, Killaduff, Sheeana More
- 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.