Lisatawan
Townland in the civil parish of Larah, barony of Loughtee Upper, Co. Cavan
- Area
- 51.2 ha
- 126 acres
- Land parcels
- 13
- registered freehold, median 19,606 m² (1.96 ha, 4.84 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisatawan, from 1,245 m² to 130,064 m² (13.01 ha, 32.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 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 Lisatawan 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
No planning application touches the townland of Lisatawan 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.
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 Lisatawan.
Recorded monuments
- CV021-050 Ringfort - rath
Description
Raised circular area (int. diam. 29.5m) enclosed by a slight earthen bank modified and incorporated into the field boundary, and a wide, shallow fosse identifiable only from SSE-S-SW and from N-NNE. Original entrance not identifiable. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008
- CV021-051 Ringfort - rath
Description
Conjoined raths encircled by a relatively modern field boundary and separated by a fosse. The SE rath comprises a raised circular area (int. diam. c. 38m) enclosed by two earthen banks with outer fosses. Outer bank is very substantial; the inner much less so. Both fosses are wide but shallow. Corresponding breaks in banks at E with accompanying causeway across inner fosse represents original entrance. Break in outer bank is now blocked. The NE rath comprises a raised oval area (int. dims. c. 36m NE-SW; c. 31m NW-SE) enclosed by two earthen banks with intervening deep, partly waterlogged fosse. Outer bank identifiable only from SSW-NNW. Corresponding breaks in banks at SSE of this rath and NNW of the larger rath, with accompanying causeway, allows access from one to the other. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lisatawan.
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 20 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 Lisatawan.
- 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 Lisatawan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Lisatawan
- Area
- 511,877 m² (51.19 ha, 126.49 acres)
- Civil parish
- Larah, and its townlands
- Barony
- Loughtee Upper
- Electoral division
- Stradone, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Stradone electoral division: 855 people in 294 households; 84% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clondargan Glebe, Edergole, Kilnagarbet, Larah, Lisatoo, Lisclone
- Placenames
- Lisatawan 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.