Lombardstown
Lombardstown is a townland in the civil parish of Caherconlish, barony of Clanwilliam, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Baile an Lombardaigh.
Parcel 1651176
- Area
- 297,293 m² (29.73 ha, 73.46 acres)
- Buildings
- 6 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 934 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Lombardstown
Planning applications on this parcel
22 Aug 2025Conditional
existing site layout, wastewater treatment system and percolation area. Planning permission is also sought to construct an extension to the side of the existing dwelling, together with associated renovation works, including alterations to the front elevation,
Retention · Limerick County Council, 2560837
18 Oct 2021Refused
extension of duration for 16/868 for alterations and extension to existing public house, provision of car parking, external play area, installation of a wastewater treatment system and all associated site works
Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 217041
11 Nov 2019Conditional
revised extension design from that previously approved under planning ref. 18/386
Permission · Limerick County Council, 191109
20 Apr 2018Conditional
alterations and extension to dwelling including all associated site development works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 18386
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.
- LI023-139 Barrow - ring-barrow
Description
This is the record for a monument identified by The Discovery Programme, from medium-altitude aerial photographs taken in 1986 [see Doody, M. (2008) The Ballyhoura Hills Project, Discovery Programme Monograph No 7, Wordwell, pp 65-100]. The reference for this monument is LI023: Bruff 216: AP 4/3737.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1153 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 80.7 ha
- 199 acres
- Land parcels
- 24
- registered freehold, median 2,927 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lombardstown, from 1,193 m² to 297,293 m² (29.73 ha, 73.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Lombardstown 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
22 Aug 2025Conditional
existing site layout, wastewater treatment system and percolation area. Planning permission is also sought to construct an extension to the side of the existing dwelling, together with associated renovation works, including alterations to the front elevation,
Retention · Limerick County Council, 2560837
18 Oct 2021Refused
extension of duration for 16/868 for alterations and extension to existing public house, provision of car parking, external play area, installation of a wastewater treatment system and all associated site works
Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 217041
11 Nov 2019Conditional
revised extension design from that previously approved under planning ref. 18/386
Permission · Limerick County Council, 191109
20 Apr 2018Conditional
alterations and extension to dwelling including all associated site development works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 18386
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 Lombardstown.
Recorded monuments
- LI023-139 Barrow - ring-barrow
Description
This is the record for a monument identified by The Discovery Programme, from medium-altitude aerial photographs taken in 1986 [see Doody, M. (2008) The Ballyhoura Hills Project, Discovery Programme Monograph No 7, Wordwell, pp 65-100]. The reference for this monument is LI023: Bruff 216: AP 4/3737.
Architectural heritage
- Presbytery/parochial/curate's house, 1910–1930 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey parochial house, built c. 1920. Full-height single-bay hipped-roofed projection to centre of front (west) elevation, full-height and single-storey extensions to rear (east). Hipped slate roofs with red brick chimneystacks, overhanging eaves and timber eaves course. Rendered walls with render quoins and plinth course. Three-centred arched openings with replacement windows and render label mouldings. Round-headed openings to projection, that to first floor with render hoodmoulding and that to ground floor with render platband above. Round-headed door opening with timber half-glazed door and fanlight. Rendered boundary wall with railings and metal gate.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Lombardstown, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1152 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Lombardstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Lombardstown · Baile an Lombardaigh
- Area
- 806,612 m² (80.66 ha, 199.32 acres)
- Civil parish
- Caherconlish, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanwilliam
- Electoral division
- Caherconlish East, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 576 people lived in 187 households in the Caherconlish East electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyadam, Ballyvorneen, Castle-Erkin North, Castle-Erkin South, Gortbrien, Greenane
- Placenames
- Lombardstown 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.