Ballygambon

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygambon, from 75 m² to 163,425 m² (16.34 ha, 40.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballygambon 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ballygambon in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Ballygambon.

Recorded monuments

• TS070-070 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In pasture, on a gentle S-facing slope. Sub-circular area (dims. 25m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by internal fosse (Wth 9.05m; D 0.9m) which is shallow around N arc. Outer bank (Wth 6.25m; int. H 1.05m; ext. H 1.0m) is disturbed at W and straightened along S due to former field boundary at this location. Bank squared-off to a corner at SE and is riddled with rabbit burrows along S. Possible causewayed entrance (Wth 4m) across fosse at S. Interior undulates as it slopes down to S. Depression (10m E-W; 4m N-S) within N sector. Monument had been planted with evergreens (Cahill 1982). Field boundary removed to S and W. Ringforts (TS070-072----) and (TS070-072001-) located 230m and 275m respectively to SSE. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS070-072 Barrow - embanked barrow
  Description

  In pasture, on a gentle S-facing slope. Circular area (dims. 28m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by bank (Wth 9m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 2.4m), reduced to scarp (Wth 3m; H 1.8m) in places. External fosse (Wth 5m; D 1.25m). Interior is generally level and planted occasionally with mixed tree species. Abuts possible embanked barrow (TS070-072001-) to S, where the respective fosses of are separated by a level ridge (Wth 2.7m). No evidence of a causewayed entrance. Ringfort (TS070-070----) located 230m to NNW. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS070-072001 Barrow - embanked barrow
  Description

  In pasture, on a gentle S-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 29m) defined by gentle bank (Wth 6.5m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.0m), reduced to scarp (Wth 2.3m; H 0.8m) in places. External fosse (Wth 6m; D 0.15m) is shallow yet consistent. Interior is generally level and is planted with mature deciduous species. Abuts possible embanked barrow (TS070-072----) to N, where the respective fosses of are separated by a level ridge (Wth 2.7m). No evidence of a causewayed entrance. Ringfort (TS070-070----) located 275m to NNW. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS070-073 Enclosure
  Description

  In tillage, on a gentle SSW-facing slope. No visible surface trace of monument. Large patches of ground at this location where no crop is growing may indicate levelled area of monument. Depicted on latest edition OS 6-inch map as curvilinear feature defined by multiple enclosing elements ESE-S-WNW. Monument noted as being levelled in 1982 (Cahill). According to local information, remains of a church may be associated with this enclosure and field is known as 'church field'. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS070-097 Earthwork
  Description

  In tillage, on a gentle SE-facing slope. Not visible at ground level, except general areas of differential growth. Identified by aerial photography (CUCAP AVO 101, 16.7.1968) as area (c. 250m NE-SW; c. 150m NW-SE) of linear and curvilinear anomalies defined by cropmarks. Two mature chestnut trees indicate location of levelled field boundary to SE. According to Cahill (1982) 'the landowner reported that rubble suggestive of house foundations was unearthed during reclamation'. Lakefield House is visible c. 320m to NW. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS070-138 Enclosure
  Description

  In tillage. An oval enclosure (dims. c. 46m NW-SE; c. 38m NE-SW) visible as a cropmark is visible on satellite imagery (Google Earth, imagery date 14 July 2019), identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. The NW portion of the enclosure is well defined while the remainder is quite faint. A field boundary, also visible as a cropmark but indicated on the 1st (1840-1) ed. OS 6-inch map and 1903-04 revision, runs NE-SW across the southern portion of the enclosure. See attached Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 14 September 2020

Architectural heritage

• Lakefield, gate lodge, 1825–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey square-plan former gate lodge, built c.1830, with two-bay side elevations, now in use as private house. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystack. Painted rendered walls with rendered eaves course, plinth course and ilaster and bracket details. Square-headed window openings, set into square-headed recesses with dentils and having replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed door opening set into render surround slightly projecting from rest of façade and having timber panelled and glazed door. Quadrant gateway with square-profile roughly dressed limestone piers with double-leaf cast-iron gates, roughly dressed limestone plinths having cast-iron railings, terminated by outer similar piers.

• Lakefield, country house, 1830–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey over basement country house, built 1831, having three-bay side elevations and seven-bay rear elevation, latter with slightly projecting centre bays. Prostyle tetrastyle portico entrance to façade and oval walled garden adjoining rear. Skirt slate roof with overhanging sheeted eaves and cut limestone chimneystacks. Rendered walls with render string course and eaves course having render brackets and pilasters to first floor of entrance bay. Portico has fluted limestone Doric columns, cut limestone entablature, and carved limestone steps. Square-headed timber sliding sash windows throughout with limestone sills and barred to basement. Six-over-six pane throughout except for end bays of first floor rear, which are six-over-nine pane. Tripartite windows to first floor of entrance bay and ground floor of side elevations, all having limestone sills. Segmental-headed door opening with timber and glazed double-leaf panelled door, timber pilasters, sidelights with panelled cut limestone bases and decoratively-glazed fanlight.

• Lakefield House, walled garden, 1830–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Walled gardens, associated with Lakefield House, laid out c. 1835. Oval plan walled garden to rear of country house comprising rubble limestone walls with arcading of shallow segmental-headed recesses and entered through segmental brick-arched gate. Square-plan walled garden to west having coursed snecked rubble limestone walls, entered through gateway having limestone piers with carved caps and double-leaf cast-iron gates. Blocked square-headed gateway with dressed limestone voussoirs. Multiple-bay single-storey possible former workers' houses to walled garden, with attached green house.

• Lakefield, farmyard complex, 1830–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Courtyard of outbuildings to east, entered through elliptical-headed carriage arch in south-east side, limestone keystone dated 1834, cast-iron date plaque 1838. Parallel L-plan two-storey stable blocks, with outbuildings. Pitched slate roofs with brick chimneystacks, some with limestone chimneystacks. Limestone bellcote to north-east range. Segmental-headed integral carriage arch to east with carved limestone date stone dated 1834. Curving multiple-bay single-storey outbuildings attached to east side of oval walled garden, having lean-to slate roof with brick chimneystacks, square-headed three-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows and square-headed timber matchboard doors.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Ballygambon.

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.

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

Name

Ballygambon · Baile an Ghambúnaigh

Area

1,828,101 m² (182.81 ha, 451.73 acres)

Civil parish

Baptistgrange, and its townlands

Barony

Middlethird

Electoral division

Colman, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Colman electoral division: 457 people in 156 households; 84% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Baptistgrange, Clonacody, Commons, Drumdeel, Kiltinan, Newtown, Sladagh

Placenames

Ballygambon 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.