Lisbiggeen
Lisbiggeen is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmaley, barony of Islands, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is Lios Bigín.
- Area
- 41.3 ha
- 102 acres
- Land parcels
- 8
- registered freehold, median 11,246 m² (1.12 ha, 2.78 acres)
- Zoning
- S3
- Community
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisbiggeen, from 335 m² to 153,828 m² (15.38 ha, 38.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- S3Community (Community facilities)
Kilmaley Settlement Plan, Clare · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1Agriculture
Kilmaley Settlement Plan, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G5Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
Kilmaley Settlement Plan, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Open Space (Open space, park)
Kilmaley Settlement Plan, Clare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
5 Nov 2025Conditional
to construct a machinery shed, extend the existing ball wall area, add floodlighting to a playing pitch and all associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 2560678
9 Jun 2025Conditional
to construct a bicycle pump track with parking area, and all associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 25182
19 May 2025Conditional
to construct a covered seated viewing spectator stand and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560283
26 Jun 2017Conditional
to construct a wheelchair accessible toilet, a foul pumping station, foul rising main and all associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 17506
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 Lisbiggeen.
Recorded monuments
- CL032-046 Ringfort - rath
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lisbiggeen.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Lisbiggeen, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lisbiggeen.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Lisbiggeen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Lisbiggeen · Lios Bigín
- Area
- 412,647 m² (41.26 ha, 101.97 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmaley, and its townlands
- Barony
- Islands
- Electoral division
- Killanniv, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 809 people lived in 291 households in the Killanniv electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Balleen, Cloonlaheen, Kilmaley, Knockmore, Lispuckaun
- Placenames
- Lisbiggeen 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.