Lisgrea
Townland in the civil parish of Lurgan, barony of Castlerahan, Co. Cavan; in Irish Lios Cré
- Area
- 158.3 ha
- 391 acres
- Land parcels
- 108
- registered freehold, median 2,653 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
108 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisgrea, from 15 m² to 116,350 m² (11.64 ha, 28.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Lisgrea 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
23 May 2025Conditional
for alterations to the existing building, including: (a) Alterations to the existing façades; (b) Internal layout improvements of the existing bar toilets area with the construction of a new accessible wc and enlarged gents and ladies toilets; (c) Construction of a single storey rear extension to form a storage room; (d) Alteration to the existing front boundary treatment by replacing existing block wall with estate railing
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560256
22 Jan 2025Conditional
for (1) Erection of part single storey and part two storey extension to the side and rear of existing two storey dwelling, conversion of existing attic space to form habitable accommodation, erection of rear attached carport and alterations to existing building layout & elevations. (2) Remove existing prefabricated steel shed and erect detached Domestic Garage. (3) All ancillary site works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560016
19 Nov 2024N/a
for the (1) erection of part single storey and part two storey extension to the side and rear of existing two storey dwelling, conversion of existing attic space to form habitable accommodation, erection of rear attached carport and alterations to existing building layout & elevations. (2) Erection of detached Domestic Garage and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460573
7 Dec 2020Conditional
to demolish 4 no. existing pig houses and associated structures, decommission all remaining pig houses and associated ancillary structures, and, to construct 2 no. replacement pig houses, together with all ancillary structures (to include meal bins, wash water tanks and ancillary store(s)) and all associated site works arising from the above proposed development on/at the site of an existing pig farm. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (E.I.A.R.) relating to this proposed development will be submitted with this planning application. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted.
Permission · Cavan County Council, 20555
31 Jan 2020Refused
to retain and PERMISSION to complete a detached single storey domestic storage shed at the side and rear of existing detached dwelling and all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2029
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 Lisgrea.
Recorded monuments
- CV039-057 Ringfort - rath
Description
Marked 'Fort' on OS 1836 and 1876 eds. Situated on the SW shoulder of a drumlin hill. Not visible at ground level. 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 Lisgrea.
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 moderately low, low, 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 Lisgrea.
- 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 Lisgrea with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Lisgrea · Lios Cré
- Area
- 1,582,601 m² (158.26 ha, 391.07 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lurgan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Castlerahan
- Electoral division
- Virginia, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Virginia electoral division: 5,210 people in 1,733 households; 68% of households own their home; 56% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cornaslieve, Drumagolan, Drumgora
- Placenames
- Lisgrea 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.