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Recorded forms
Ceapach Choinn· Irish · main form · validated name
Cappoquin· English · main form
Place & story
Boats, builders and the rowing club
A 1962 history of Cappoquin rowing records the club's early dependence on simple wooden shelters before members built a clubhouse in 1875. Tradesmen working on the railway helped with its construction. An invoice from the Oxford boatbuilder John Salter documents a four-oared boat and a scull bought the following year, with carriage to the ship charged separately. A new clubhouse followed in 1910 with support from Mrs H. C. Villiers-Stuart of Dromana. These practical records connect recreation on the Blackwater with transport, skilled labour and local patronage.[2]
People & connections
Cappoquin House and Sir John Keane
Sir John Keane inherited the Cappoquin estate in 1892, aged nineteen. The introduction to his papers in Waterford Archives describes the house overlooking the town and the sharp bend of the Blackwater. It was burned during the Civil War in 1923, shortly after Keane's appointment to the Free State Senate. The council's architectural trail records its subsequent restoration with the architect Richard Orpen. The surviving house therefore represents both an eighteenth-century estate residence and substantial twentieth-century recovery from destruction, rather than an entirely untouched Georgian interior.[3][4]
Folklore & tradition
The stone that promises a return
At the meeting of Castle Street and Main Street stands the Cornerstone, a familiar local feature with uncertain origins. Waterford's architectural walking trail records a popular belief that anyone who sits on it will return to Cappoquin. The tradition gives an otherwise easily overlooked stone a place in the town's shared memory. It is presented as a local tale, with no claim that the promised return can be demonstrated or that the stone's original function has been established. Its significance lies partly in the story people attach to it.[4]
Both counts use the 2016 settlement boundary, allowing like-for-like comparison. CSO supplies the 2022 count on this older boundary for comparison only. The official 2022 Built Up Area has different boundaries.
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Cappoquin — Census 2016 settlement footprint — census population
Cappoquin, Waterford — Census town, CSO 2006 report
2002–2006: census town
740people · 2006
These are the historical areas published in the 2006 census report. Boundaries may differ between censuses and from modern settlements. Legal towns, environs and suburbs are shown separately; none has been combined into a modern settlement total.
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Cappoquin, Waterford — Census town, CSO 2006 report — census population
Cappoquin, Waterford — Census town, CSO 1996 report
1991–1996: census town
780people · 1996
These are the historical areas published in the 1996 census report. Boundaries may differ between censuses and from modern settlements. Legal towns, environs and suburbs are shown separately; none has been combined into a modern settlement total.
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Cappoquin, Waterford — Census town, CSO 1996 report — census population
Cappoquin, Waterford — Census town, CSO 1986 report
1981–1986: census town
920people · 1986
Figures cover the historical town area printed in the 1986 report. Boundaries may have changed between censuses. Legal town, environs and suburb totals remain separate and differ from modern settlement boundaries.
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Cappoquin, Waterford — Census town, CSO 1986 report — census population
These figures use different area definitions. Read the boundary note before comparing them.
Cappoquin, Waterford
Published census settlement populations
699people · 2016
Settlement boundaries changed during this period. Differences may reflect boundary changes as well as population change. Where a 2011 legal-town-and-environs count is shown, it has not been recalculated onto the 2016 settlement boundary.
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