Lisball
Townland in the civil parish of Bailieborough, barony of Clankee, Co. Cavan
- Area
- 321.6 ha
- 795 acres
- Land parcels
- 80
- registered freehold, median 6,043 m² (0.6 ha, 1.49 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
80 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisball, from 71 m² to 314,691 m² (31.47 ha, 77.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 46 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 Lisball 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
3 Sept 2025Conditional
for a single storey dwelling house, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, vehicular entrance and driveway, entrance piers together with all ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560529
15 Jun 2025Conditional
to construct single storey extensions, (Proposed floor area 36 Msq) to side and rear of existing dwelling
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560306
13 Jan 2023Refused
to construct a two storeydetached dwelling with a single storey detached garage, stables, out buildings, upgrade exsiting vehicular entrance onto public road, driveway, proprietary waste water treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works. Planning previously grant ref. no. 14/319
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 235
9 Dec 2022Conditional
to retain the existing domestic garage/ store, retention of the existing timber panel fencing and entrance gates along public road and all ancillary site works
Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 22500
30 Nov 2022Conditional
of timber clad single storey dwelling, site development works and connect to existing services
Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 22486
23 Aug 2022Refused
to retain timber clad single story dwelling, site development works and connect to existing services
Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 22341
15 Oct 2019Conditional
EXTENSION OF TIME 14/319 to construct a two storey detached dwelling with a single storey detached garage, stables, out buildings, upgrade existing vehicular entrance onto public road, driveway, proprietary waste water treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works
Extension of duration · Cavan County Council, 19394
12 Jul 2017Conditional
to construct bungalow, domestic garage, new entrance and install proprietary waste water treatment unit and percolation areas
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 17308
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 Lisball.
Recorded monuments
- CV028-035 Ringfort - rath
Description
Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 36m) enclosed by a partly denuded, irregular earthen bank and the remains of a fosse infilled from NW-N-NE. Original entrance not recognisable. Internal area now forms part of a modern farmyard. 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
- CV028-036 Mound
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
- Farm house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey lobby-entry vernacular house, built c.1800, having shallow windbreak porch, single-storey lean-to corrugated-iron extension to rear. Pitched slate roof, paired red brick chimneystacks, sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Lime-washed rubble stone walls having square-headed openings and painted sills. Two-over-two timber sash windows with some replacement windows, windows in eastern bay not aligned. Sheeted timber door having large flags to threshold. Outbuildings having corrugated metal roofs, lime-washed rubble stone walls, and sheeted timber doors, ranged perpendicular to west side of the house. Pre-historic ringfort adjacent to rear.
- Laurel Mount, house, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
Description
Detached L-plan three-bay two-storey house, built c.1880. Hipped slate roof having moulded brick eaves course, paired red brick chimneystacks and rebuilt chimney stack to rear gable, replacement rainwater goods. Rubble stone walls having red-brick quoins and block-and start surrounds to openings. One-over-one timber sash windows with cut-stone sills. Replacement timber panelled door with plain glazed overlight. Partly rendered rear elevation. Lean-to outbuildings having corrugated metal roofs, roughcast rendered walls, and sheeted timber doors, to rear. Set back from the road having formal bifurcating drive, gate piers removed. Wrought-iron gates providing access to rubble stone and corrugated metal farm outbuildings to rear.
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 5 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; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lisball.
- 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 Lisball with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Lisball
- Area
- 3,215,703 m² (321.57 ha, 794.62 acres)
- Civil parish
- Bailieborough, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clankee
- Electoral division
- Bailieborough, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Bailieborough electoral division: 4,230 people in 1,546 households; 73% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bracklin, Drumlon, Dundragon, Gartnaneane, Lear, Lisgar, Pottle Lower, Pottle Upper
- Placenames
- Lisball 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.