Liscannor

275 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Liscannor, from 12 m² to 103,244 m² (10.32 ha, 25.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Liscannor Settlement Plan, Clare · 145 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C5Tourism (Tourism and related)
  Liscannor Settlement Plan, Clare · 40 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Mixed Use (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Liscannor Settlement Plan, Clare · 22 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Liscannor Settlement Plan, Clare · 10 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space (Open space, park)
  Liscannor Settlement Plan, Clare · 9 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R4Strategic Residential Reserve
  Liscannor Settlement Plan, Clare · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Liscannor Settlement Plan, Clare · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N1.4Maritime / Harbour (Seaport/Harbour)
  Liscannor Settlement Plan, Clare · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S1Community (Education)
  Liscannor Settlement Plan, Clare · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C1.1Commercial (Commercial, retail)
  Liscannor Settlement Plan, Clare · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1Enterprise (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Liscannor Settlement Plan, Clare · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N2.2Utilities (Wastewater)
  Liscannor Settlement Plan, Clare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S3Community (Community facilities)
  Liscannor Settlement Plan, Clare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N1.5Utilities (Mixed/general transport uses)
  Liscannor Settlement Plan, Clare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Buffer Space (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Liscannor 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.

• 16 Jul 2026Conditional

  for alterations to the dwelling granted under P22/270 including the addition of a dormer window along with all associated works

  Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660462

• 29 May 2026Conditional

  the demolition of existing house (EIRCODE V95 D2K8 ), the construction of a replacement dwelling house, new boundary wall & site entrance, and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660351

• 23 Apr 2026N/a

  for the material change of use of an existing dwelling for use as a restaurant and licensed premises forming an extension to the existing licensed premises and restaurant at Joseph McHugh’s

  Permission · Clare County Council, 2660262

• 25 Mar 2026Refused

  to Extend the Appropriate Period for P16/142 & P21/240 for development which will consist of the construction of a dwelling house, ancillary site works and connection to public services

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2677

• 2 Mar 2026Conditional

  the demolition of an existing rear extension, refurbishment of existing house, alterations to front elevation and construction of two rear extensions

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2655

• 13 Jan 2026Conditional

  to renovate & extend the existing dwelling house, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660005

• 7 Nov 2025Conditional

  for development which will consist of: the construction of a single storey extension to the front and side of an existing two-storey dwelling, a single storey extension to the rear of the existing two-storey dwelling and a replacement front porch to the existing two-storey dwelling, and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560684

• 6 Aug 2025N/a

  to alter and extend the existing house, for use as a permanent residence and all associated and ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 25256

• 1 Aug 2025Conditional

  to (a) construct front extension (b) carry out internal renovations, external fenestration changes and rear decking area together with all site development works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560474

• 25 Jul 2025Conditional

  for development which will consist of a change of use of part of the ground floor (17.5sqm) from a public display area to an Irish Coffee, Guinness and Oyster Bar, including the installation of a curved bar counter and all associated internal works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 2560461

• 6 May 2025Refused

  for the construction of proposed extensions and material alterations to the front, side and rear of the existing dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560246

• 4 Mar 2025Refused

  to build a new dwelling, install a pre treatment waste water treatment system connect to public services & all other associated site and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560

• 31 Jan 2025Refused

  to construct 5 no. houses, on site wastewater pre treatment, connections to public services, access road & green space, entrances and all associated site development works

  Outline permission · Clare County Council, 2560042

• 29 Aug 2024Conditional

  for the construction of an extension to the existing Liscannor Playschool and all associates site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 2460412

• 23 Aug 2024Conditional

  on the grant of outline permission Ref No. 21/846 for the construction of a dwelling house, connection to public services, public road entrance and associated site development works

  Permission consequent · Clare County Council, 2460399

• 25 Apr 2024Conditional

  of the change of use to restaurant (g.f.a. 277 sqm; net area 100 sqm) of part of the ground floor (from retail use) and first floor (from office use) of the existing two storey building, retention of an extraction vent and of an external refuse/bin storage compound on the western side of building and retention of external signage on western gable wall of the building. PERMISSION for development which will consist of reordering and extension of the existing car park to the rear to provide 14 carparking spaces and 15 bicycle spaces, provision of bus pull-in on local road LP1088, provision of four on-street parking spaces to the front along Main Street and ancillary works

  Retention · Clare County Council, 2460180

• 22 Mar 2024Refused

  for the construction of a dwelling house, vehicular entrance, wastewater treatment system, connection to services & all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2460129

• 22 Mar 2024Refused

  for development which will consist of a) alterations to the plans and elevations of the dwelling house granted permission under planning reference P21/1188 and permission to construct a domestic garage together with ancillary site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 2494

• 15 Mar 2024Refused

  to construct 6 no. houses, on site wastewater pre treatment, connections to public services, public road & green space, entrances and all associated site development works

  Outline permission, 6 homes · Clare County Council, 2460113

• 4 Mar 2024Refused

  to Extend the Appropriate Period of Planning Permission for P18/986 for development which will consist of (1) The removal of an existing single storey rear annexe (2) Alterations and a rear extension to the existing dwelling house (3) All ancillary site works

  Extension of duration · Clare County Council, 2473

• 26 Feb 2024Conditional

  to renovate, extend and reuse the stone outbuildings to the rear of the main building as a 2 bed roomed unit for short stay letting and to alter the front facade of the main building to create a new access corridor to the rear yard and proposed unit & all other associated site and ancillary works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 2467

• 21 Feb 2024Conditional

  of the extension to the rear of the existing dwelling & all other associated site and ancillary works

  Retention · Clare County Council, 2457

• 22 Dec 2023N/a

  to renovate, extend and reuse the stone outbuildings to the rear of the main building as a 2 bed roomed unit for short stay letting and to alter the front facade of the main building to create a new access corridor to the rear yard and proposed unit & all other associated site and ancillary works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 23641

• 14 Dec 2023Conditional

  for the demolition of the existing sub-standard dwelling house and to construct two no. new semi-detached houses along with all associated site works and services

  Permission, 2 homes · Clare County Council, 2360547

• 4 Dec 2023Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, garage, road entrance, connections to public services and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2360523

The 25 most recent of 79 applications.

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 Liscannor.

Recorded monuments

• CL015-078002 Castle - tower house
  Description

  See attached document with details from Risteárd Ua Cróinín and Martin Breen, The Castles and Tower-houses of Co. Clare (unpublished report). Uploaded courtesy of R. Ua Cróinín and M. Breen. Date of upload: 5 December 2014

• CL015-080 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Just N of the pier in Liscannor. Named ‘Liscannor Fort – site of’ on the 1840 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. Westropp (1910, 155) refers to ‘Passing the little seaport, on the site of the old “Liss” of the O’Conors, that gave the place its name…’. On inspection in 1998 the area was found to be landscaped and occupied by Irish Lights no archaeological remains were visible.  Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 4 November 2025

• CL015-081 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In flat poorly drained ground beside a stream close to the N shore of Liscannor Bay, with clear views S across the bay, overlooked by higher ground to the N. Located c. 460m W of the medieval church of Kilmacreehy. Marked and labelled ‘Tobermacrehy’ on the 1840 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. In 1839, Curry noted the well, ‘now neglected and unfrequented, though formerly in great repute for curing diseases of the eyes and other diseases’ (Comber 1997, 94). A small dry well with a drystone-lined rectangular well shaft (L 0.55m; Wth 0.4m; D 0.6m) covered by a single large Liscannor flagstone. The following images have been uploaded: CL015-081----_01.jpg CL015-081----_02.jpg Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell Date of upload: 15 August 2023

Architectural heritage

• Saint Brigid's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1855–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding double-height Roman Catholic church, dated 1858, comprising four-bay nave with central gabled entrance porch. Three-bay single-storey sacristy added to rear, c. 1985. Pitched artificial slate roof with cross finials and cast-iron rainwater goods. Cut-stone copings to porch roof. Snecked stone walls. Cut-stone quoins to porch. Rendered walls to rear. Timber matchboard door. Lancet windows with timber Y-tracery and leaded stained glass. Tripartite window to west gable. Retaining interior features including raked galleries, clustered cast-iron piers and carved marble altar. Graveyard to site with various cut-stone grave markers. Octagonal cut-stone piers with moulded cappings and cast-iron gates.

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

The EPA radon map gives no estimate at the centre of the townland of Liscannor.

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Liscannor with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Liscannor · Lios Ceannúir

Area

722,912 m² (72.29 ha, 178.64 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacrehy, and its townlands

Barony

Corcomroe

Electoral division

Liscannor, the unit of the census

Census 2022

446 people lived in 171 households in the Liscannor electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 44% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caherycahill, Cloghaundine, Laghcloon

Placenames

Liscannor 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.