Lishenry

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lishenry, from 184 m² to 90,420 m² (9.04 ha, 22.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Lishenry 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.

• 28 Jun 2023Conditional

  rehabilitation and improvement of a 4km stretch of the Pound River, works will include removal of some in-stream vegetation, repair and reinstatement of existing in-stream structures, improvement and alteration of flow dynamics by the construction of deflectors and weirs, reinforcement of the river bank in some locations and the introduction of spawning gravel to improve breeding habitats for trout. Appropriate assessment and NIS has been submitted as part of this application

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 23251

• 27 Feb 2023Conditional

  to (1) construct agricultural slatted shed to incorporate milking parlour area, dairy, ancillary storage, bedded area, slatted areas, cubicle accommodation, feed and link passages and underground slurry storage tanks, (2) complete all ancillary site works and associated site structures, significant further information has been received

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2369

• 27 Jul 2021Conditional

  to construct single storey flat roof side extension to the existing single storey with attic conversion dwelling

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21466

• 27 Aug 2020Conditional

  for development consisting of - to demolish 3 no. existing mushroom houses and associated concrete pods and permission is sought to construct (1) agricultural slatted shed/agricultural storage shed to incorporate slatted area, underground slurry storage tank, bedded area and hay and machinery storage area, (2) and complete all ancillary and associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 20372

• 19 Oct 2018Conditional

  for alterations to floor plans & elevational changes from that previously approved under application- Planning Ref. No. 17/210 and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 18428

• 22 May 2017Conditional

  to construct a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, install proprietary mechanical wastewater treatment system, form new site entrance onto private laneway and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 17210

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 Lishenry.

Recorded monuments

• CV032-034 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. 32m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and a wide, deep, partly waterlogged fosse. Low counterscarp bank at outer lip of fosse. Corresponding breaks in banks at E with accompanying causeway probably represents original entrance. 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 Lishenry.

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 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 Lishenry.

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

Name

Lishenry

Area

604,589 m² (60.46 ha, 149.4 acres)

Civil parish

Denn, and its townlands

Barony

Castlerahan

Electoral division

Ballyjamesduff, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballyjamesduff electoral division: 3,548 people in 1,187 households; 59% of households own their home; 57% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghalattafraal, Cornagrow, Lackanduff, Pollafree, Pottle

Placenames

Lishenry 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.