Lisgar

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisgar, from 105 m² to 194,491 m² (19.45 ha, 48.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 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 Lisgar 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.

• 5 Mar 2021Conditional

  to construct 1 No. Poultry house (to include meal storage bin(s) and soiled water tank(s)) and all associated site works arising from the above proposed development. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (E.I.A.R.) will be submitted with this application. This application relates to a development, which is for the purposes of an activity requiring a Licence under part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency (Licensing) Regulations 1994 to 2013.

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 21123

• 18 Sept 2020Conditional

  to construct 1 no. Poultry house (to include meal storage bin(s) and soiled water tank(s)) and all associated site works (to include new/upgraded site entrance) arising from the above proposed development

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 20416

• 24 Jan 2018Conditional

  to (a) retain non-habitable attic conversion, (b) retain detached domestic garage, (c) together with all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 1834

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 Lisgar.

Recorded monuments

• CV028-038 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked 'Fort' on the OS 1836 ed. and 'Site of on the 1876 ed. Partially levelled. Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 38m) enclosed by an earthen bank and a wide fosse, both well preserved from NW-N-NE and elsewhere either levelled or replaced by field boundaries. 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

• First Bailieborough Presbyterian Church, church/chapel, 1790–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding seven-bay Presbyterian church, built 1795, with galleried interior focussed on long side, central gable-fronted entrance porch, gabled outcrop to rear with external stair to gallery. Pitched replacement slate roof, raised eaves course with widely-spaced corbels to front and rear, replacement rainwater goods. Smooth rendered walls with recessed plinth. Circular plaque near gable apex reading 'CONGREGATION FOUNDED AD 1714' in raised surround, raised platband to base of gable arching over two semi-circular plaques of polished stone reading 'the Reverend Mr Mongomery 1795' and 'RE-ROOFED A.D. 1902'. Central iron plaque reading 'Re-roofed A.D. 2001'. Round-headed windows and pointed arch openings to gables having raised render surrounds and painted sills with replacement uPVC windows. Round-headed replacement sheeted timber door with uPVC overlight. Internally compartmented sheeted timber ceiling, recent stained glass with burning-bush motif to fanlight of entrance, carved stone plaque to walls. Timber pulpit and table positioned against front elevation, panelled timber gallery supported on columns to long rear elevation, panelled timber box pews beneath having with brass numbers. Set back from the road in graveyard surrounded by cut stone grave markers and slabs, bounded at road by rubble stone wall having rendered coping with recent lamps at intervals. Square-plan gate piers, rotated at angle, having rendered cappings with projecting bands surmounted by recent lanterns, replacement gates. Presbyterian hall, built c.1870, to west.

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.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lisgar.

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

Name

Lisgar

Area

1,209,324 m² (120.93 ha, 298.83 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

Cavanskeldragh, Corglass, Corweelis, Derrynure, Drumlon, Lear, Lisball, Tattyreagh

Placenames

Lisgar 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.