Demesne

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Demesne, from 34 m² to 255,013 m² (25.5 ha, 63.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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.

No zone of a development plan covers 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.

• 12 Aug 2025Conditional

  a storey and a half extension to an existing single storey cottage, along with new external insulation, render, new windows and doors & internal alterations to the existing & also a new treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2560234

• 16 Jun 2025N/a

  construct a part two storey part single storey dwelling, renovation of existing outbuilding to proposed new garage, use of existing entrance and access lane and proposed new domestic entrance to rear of existing farmyard, proposed wastewater treatment system and percolation area, bored well and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2560173

• 12 Sept 2024Refused

  new single storey dwelling, new entrance, on site treatment system, bored well and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2460285

• 10 Sept 2024N/a

  new single storey dwelling, new entrance, on site treatment system, bored well and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2460277

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 the townland of Demesne.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Demesne.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Demesne.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Demesne, 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_2363 (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.

No address of the register names Demesne with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.

Name

Demesne · An Diméin

Area

439,288 m² (43.93 ha, 108.55 acres)

Civil parish

Oldleighlin, and its townlands

Barony

Idrone West

Electoral division

Oldleighlin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

606 people lived in 199 households in the Oldleighlin electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynolan, Coneykeare, Coolnakeeran, Farranacurragh, Moanduff, Seskin Lower

Placenames

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.