Lawlesstown
Townland in the civil parish of Cappoge, barony of Ardee, Co. Louth; in Irish Mullach an Laighléisigh
- Area
- 19.4 ha
- 48 acres
- Land parcels
- 23
- registered freehold, median 2,009 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lawlesstown, from 69 m² to 57,965 m² (5.8 ha, 14.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Lawlesstown 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
5 May 2024Conditional
Permission for a single storey extension to the side of the dwelling along with internal alterations and the conversion of the attic space. The construction of two dormer roof windows to the front of the dwelling, and including alterations to the position and height of the existing entrance gate piers, and all associated siteworks
Permission · Louth County Council, 2460250
8 Apr 2022Conditional
Retention Permission of side extension to existing dwelling. Permission for revised site boundaries, wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works.
Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22278
27 May 2020Conditional
Retention permission for dwellinghouse waste water treatment system/percolation area and the site boundaries (boundaries which differ from that granted under planning permission ref. no. 13397)
Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 20361
3 Mar 2020Conditional
Retention permission sought for front side and rear extension to existing dwelling house and all associated site works. *Significant Further Information received on 03/11/2020 provides for, inter alia, a new wastewater treatment system, decommissioning of existing septic tank and retention of entrance to subject site*.
Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 20145
29 Jan 2020N/a
Retention permission for front, side and rear extension to existing dwelling house and all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2056
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 Lawlesstown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lawlesstown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lawlesstown.
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 Lawlesstown.
- 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 Lawlesstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.
The townland
- Name
- Lawlesstown · Mullach an Laighléisigh
- Area
- 194,136 m² (19.41 ha, 47.97 acres)
- Civil parish
- Cappoge, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ardee
- Electoral division
- Dromin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dromin electoral division: 679 people in 218 households; 93% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Hammondstown, Knockatober, Mooremount, Ravel, Shamrockhill
- Placenames
- Lawlesstown 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.