Lisdonan

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisdonan, from 98 m² to 145,179 m² (14.52 ha, 35.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Lisdonan 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.

• 21 Jan 2026Conditional

  for 2 No. self-catering apartment residences to provide short-term holiday lets for fishermen in-lieu of 2 No. existing vernacular farm out-buildings which have had to be demolished due to significant storm damage. (Planning Permission was previously granted for the conversion of the 2 No. out-buildings to 2 No. self-catering apartment residences under Planning Reference No. 21/753). The development consists of 1. RETENTION of existing foundations and sub-structure which have already been constructed for each building and will consist of 2. PERMISSION to Complete the construction of each building; replace existing septic tank and soak away with a proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area to serve the development; provision of car parking spaces together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2660018

• 12 Apr 2022Conditional

  construct single storey dwelling house, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, use of proposed vehicular entrance and access lane approved under Planning Reference 21/145 together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 22139

• 15 Dec 2021Conditional

  for the renovation of 2 No. existing vernacular farm out-buildings which form a courtyard configuration to provide 1 No. 1 bedroom and 1 No. 3 bedroom self-catering apartments, replace existing septic tank and soak away with a proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area together with all ancillary site development works. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted.

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 21753

• 17 Nov 2021Conditional

  for development of a glamping site comprising 4 No. glamping pods, ancillary single storey service building, redevelopment of existing traditional stone building to an equipment/bicycle store, internal paths, car parking area, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, new entrance/exit onto public road together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 21701

• 8 Sept 2021Refused

  for development consisting of a single storey machinery & equipment storage shed associated with construction business together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 21564

• 18 Mar 2021Conditional

  single storey dwelling house, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, vehicular entrance together with all ancillary site development works. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21145

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 Lisdonan.

Recorded monuments

• CV023-033 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked 'Fort' on the OS 1836 and 1876 eds. Raised oval area enclosed by a low, narrow earthen bank and a narrow trench incorporated into a field boundary. Site is divided into two unequal portions by a field boundary running NE-SW, NW of which there is nothing visible at ground level. Original entrance not recognisable. 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

• CV028-037 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. dims. c. 32.3m N-S; c. 39.4m E-W) enclosed by a much-denuded earthen bank, the outer face of which has been scarped and incorporated into the field boundary, and surrounded in turn by slight traces of a recut fosse. Original entrance not recognisable. 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 Lisdonan.

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 20 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 Lisdonan.

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 Lisdonan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Lisdonan

Area

876,296 m² (87.63 ha, 216.54 acres)

Civil parish

Knockbride, and its townlands

Barony

Clankee

Electoral division

Skeagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Skeagh electoral division: 445 people in 144 households; 93% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cappog, Corleck, Corraneary, Knockbride, Roosky

Placenames

Lisdonan 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.