Lamberton Demesne
Townland in the civil parish of Dysartenos, barony of Maryborough East, Co. Laois; in Irish Diméin Lamberton
- Area
- 148.6 ha
- 367 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 68,661 m² (6.87 ha, 16.97 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lamberton Demesne, from 2,289 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres) to 513,114 m² (51.31 ha, 126.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Lamberton Demesne 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
15 Jan 2019Conditional
construct an agricultural livestock shed with underground slatted slurry storage tanks and to construct a milking parlour, dairy and ancillary rooms, drafting and handling facilities, waiting yard, meal bin, water storage tank and underground slatted parlour washings tank and all associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 1914
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 Lamberton Demesne.
Recorded monuments
- LA018-011 Ringfort - rath
Description
On N-facing slope in pastureland. A circular earthen ringfort (diam. c. 38m) defined by a well preservd tree-planted bank (max. Wth 6m, int. H 0.6m, ext. H 1.8m) except from NNW-N where it is flattened, and a fosse (Wth 2.5m), most pronounced from NNW-SE; from SSW-NW it is infilled. The interior is rough and uneven, and the S half is obscured by bushes and briars (pers. comm. Elizabeth FitzPatrick). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007
- LA018-012 Ringfort - rath
Description
An oval-shaped area (dim. c. 40m E-W) defined by an inner bank (Wth c. 4m, int. H c. 1.1m), intervening fosse (Wth c. 8m) except at SW and outer bank (Wth c. 3.3m, int. H c. 1.1m, ext. H c. 0.5m) from W-N. No evidence of original entrance. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 197/1954).
Architectural heritage
- Lamberton House, gate lodge, 1870–1900 · Regional interest
Description
Three-bay single-storey Victorian Gothic gate lodge, c. 1880, with gabled projecting porch. Extended to left. Gateway, c. 1790, to site. Remainder of estate (including house) demolished with site cleared.
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 5 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 Lamberton Demesne.
- 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 Lamberton Demesne with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.
The townland
- Name
- Lamberton Demesne · Diméin Lamberton
- Area
- 1,485,543 m² (148.55 ha, 367.09 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dysartenos, and its townlands
- Barony
- Maryborough East
- Electoral division
- Kilcolmanbane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilcolmanbane electoral division: 627 people in 208 households; 96% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballygormill North, Ballygormill South, Ballyheyland, Ballyknockan, Derrytrasna, Hophall, Kilcolmanbane, Powelstown
- Placenames
- Lamberton Demesne 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.