Lisnamandra
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmore, barony of Loughtee Upper, Co. Cavan; in Irish Lios na Manrach
- Area
- 36.2 ha
- 89 acres
- Land parcels
- 4
- registered freehold, median 8,686 m² (0.87 ha, 2.15 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisnamandra, from 1,049 m² to 343,776 m² (34.38 ha, 84.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Lisnamandra 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
No planning application touches the townland of Lisnamandra in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 Lisnamandra.
Recorded monuments
- CV025-089002 Font (present location)
Description
Lying against the NW wall of a modern dwelling-house and now utilised as a flowerpot. Small, flat-based, roughly executed sandstone mortar (H 0.26m; dims. 0.3m x 0.28m; int. diam. 0.2m) equipped with corner lugs. It is accompanied by a stone head (CV025-089003-), both items having been reputedly taken from Trinity Island (CV020-077001-) (local information). 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
- CV025-089003 Stone head
Description
This apparently late medieval head is believed to have been taken from Trinity Island (CV020-077001-) (local information) and is now lying up against the NW wall of a modern dwelling-house. It has slightly bulging eyes, prominent ears, a partly chipped nose and smiling mouth. The chin has been broken off. The head is crowned with a plain band with foliate tips. 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
- CV025-090 Ringfort - rath
Description
Raised oval area (int. dims. 48.8m N-S; 32.7m E-W) enclosed by three earthen banks with intermediate fosses. The inner and middle banks are very substantial and separated from each other by a wide, deep, partly waterlogged fosse. The outer fosse is absent at W and its enclosing outer bank identifiable only at SE. Corresponding breaks in banks with accompanying causeways at ESE 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 Lisnamandra.
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 10 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 Lisnamandra.
- 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 Lisnamandra with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Lisnamandra · Lios na Manrach
- Area
- 361,964 m² (36.2 ha, 89.44 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Loughtee Upper
- Electoral division
- Crossdoney, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Crossdoney electoral division: 610 people in 210 households; 84% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Farragh, Gortnashangan Lower or Bingfield, Gortnashangan Upper or Hermitage, Kevit Upper or Castlecosby, Tircullen
- Placenames
- Lisnamandra 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.