Lismacsheedy

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lismacsheedy, from 2,383 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres) to 578,459 m² (57.85 ha, 142.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Lismacsheedy 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.

• 7 Jun 2018Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, shed, advanced wastewater treatment system with soil polishing filter together with all ancillary site development works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 18470

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Black Head-Poulsallagh Complex SAC 000020
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Black Head-Poulsallagh Complex 000020

Recorded monuments

• CL002-033001 Field system
  Description

  On the moderately steep lower W slopes of Cappanawalla at the narrowest point in the Rathborney valley, between Cappanawalla Hill and Gleninagh ‘Mountain’. Recently reclaimed pastureland now extends slightly up the ridge side. The surviving elements are generally poorly preserved and defined by tumbled stone walls (c. 900m NNW–SSE x c. 300m WSW–ENE), occasionally under heavy briar and thorn. Several phases of field walls are apparent, some are likely of pre-famine date, others are potentially associated with the several cashels (CL002-033002-, CL002-033003- and CL002-033004-) in their midst and some may predate the cashels. Two other field systems (CL002-030001- and CL002-075002-) with associated ringforts lie at the NW and NE of the valley. These three field systems may have essentially extended across the valley floor and formed one or several interconnected systems. The chronology of the remaining field systems is difficult to disentangle, however, some walls evidently postdate the cashel/enclosures, others are contemporary with their use while others may pre-date them. Plunkett-Dillon (1985) categorised tumble walls as being associated with ringforts and other medieval enclosures. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 19 November 2020

• CL002-098 Hut site
  Description

  On the W-facing slope of Cappanawalla. A hut site (diam. c. 8m) is visible on Digital Globe (2011-13). Lismacsheedy cliff-edge fort (CL005-018002-) lies 120m to the SW within an extensive system of cashels and hut sites. This was noted and reported to the National Monuments Service by Ros Ó Maoldúin. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 25 November 2020

• CL005-018002 Cliff-edge fort
  Description

  In hazel overgrowth at the base of the SW side of Cappanawalla Hill, an extensive terraced limestone plateau, and within a multiperiod field system (CL002-033001-). There are commanding views from S to NW. Hachured and named ‘Lismacsheedy’ on the 1842 and 1916 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps. Named ‘Lios Mac Síoda’ on Robinson’s (1997) map. Frost (1893, Appendix VII) translates this as ‘Mac Sheedy's homestead’. The name of the fort is the same as that of the townland. However, in 1660, the townland name was recorded as Lisniceada (Simington and Mac Giolla Choille 1967, 470). It was described by Westropp (1901, 276-7) as ‘a massive and well preserved cliff fort’; its wall was ‘half moon-shaped in plan’ and abutted a low cliff ‘30 feet to 60 feet high [c. 9-18m]’ that was ‘practically perpendicular’; a modern wall was built along the cliff edge. The enclosing wall was ‘very coarsely build of large slabs’ and appeared to have been built in two sections. A ‘recess’ in its inner wall-face at NE may have been for steps to access the terrace. This large moderately well-preserved cliff-edge fort (int. dims. 62m NW-SE; 50m) is D-shaped in plan with the straight side (L c. 55m) facing SW. It is defined from NW to SSE by a roughly built but substantial wall (Wth 1.4-4m; int. H 1.4-2.7m; ext. H 1.2-2.3m), the base of which is constructed of unworked flat flags and boulders, and from SSE to NW by the modern field wall along the cliff-edge. The original entrance is not obvious but modern gaps at N and SE may have removed any evidence of it. An internal terrace (Wth 1.2m; H 0.4-0.5m) is visible from N to NNE and a recess (Wth 1.45m; D 1.2m) visible near it at NE may be that which was noted by Westropp (ibid.). A hut, probable modern in date, abuts the wall-face at NE, just north of the recess, and a small enclosure (diam. 7m) abuts it at N, the latter corresponds with that indicated on the 1916 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. The interior is very uneven and slopes to the S. Westropp (ibid., 277) recorded a hut site (CL005-018008-), just to the NE of the centre but no visible trace of it was noted. The substantial cashel ‘Caherfeenagh’ (CL002-033004-) is located c. 200m to the NW and a hut site (CL002-098----) is located c. 100m to the ENE. Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 24 January 2022

• CL005-018003 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated c. 50m E of a stream on the W slopes of a hill in a rocky area. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the SMR (1992) and RMP (1996). On inspection in 1999 this was found to be a roughly circular enclosure (int. diam. 16m) defined by a drystone wall of relatively modern construction with an entrance (Wth 1.4m) at S with stone facing at each side. The interior is full of loose stone and is much overgrown. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 18 January 2016

• CL005-018005 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on the W slopes of a hill in a rocky area. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the SMR (1992) and RMP (1996). On inspection in 1999 this was found to be a subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 23m) defined by a stone wall (H 0.5m; Wth 1.1m) of relatively recent construction. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 18 January 2016

• CL005-018008 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Within the NE quadrant of the interior of a cliff-edge fort (CL005-018002-). This house site was recorded by Westropp (1901, 277), who described it as ‘a hut D-shaped in plan, and 18 feet [c. 5.5m] internally’. No visible surface trace of it survives. Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 18 January 2022

• CL005-234 Hut site
  Description

  On the W-facing slope of Cappanawalla. A hut site (diam. c. 8m) is visible on Digital Globe (2011-13). This was noted and reported to the National Monuments Service by Ros Ó Maoldúin. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 25 November 2020

• CL005-290 Enclosure
  Description

  On a grassed-over limestone terrace on the SW side of Cappanawalla Hill, overlooking a valley. This roughly oval enclosure (c. 26m NE-SW; c. 24m NW-SE), defined by a stone wall, is visible on OSi digitalglobe aerial imagery. A field wall extending off it at SSW may be associated. Noted by Ross Ó Maoldúin. Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 25 January 2022

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lismacsheedy.

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

At the centre of the townland of Lismacsheedy, about 1 in 5 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 high, 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 Lismacsheedy.

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 Lismacsheedy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Lismacsheedy

Area

1,554,609 m² (155.46 ha, 384.15 acres)

Civil parish

Rathborney, and its townlands

Barony

Burren

Electoral division

Rathborney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

97 people lived in 27 households in the Rathborney electoral division. 65% of households owned their home. 15% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 29% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyconry, Derrynavahagh, Faunarooska, Feenagh, Formoyle East, Lismacteige

Placenames

Lismacsheedy 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.