Lissatunna

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lissatunna, from 766 m² to 627,279 m² (62.73 ha, 155 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Lissatunna 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.

• 12 Mar 2018Conditional

  for the following: a) Demolition of existing milking parlour and derelict sheds, b) Construction of a new dairy, ancillary rooms, milking parlour, drafting and handling area, straw bedded area and unroofed collecting yard and flow channel to existing parlour washing tank, c) Erection of an external Feed Bin and Water Storage tank and all associated siteworks

  Permission · Clare County Council, 18190

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: Inagh River Estuary SAC 000036
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Inagh River Estuary 000036

Recorded monuments

• CL015-094001 Church
  Description

  In a graveyard (CL015-094002-) on a knoll in low-lying estuarine marsh near the N bank of the W-flowing Inagh River. Accessed via a relict footpath from the N.  Mason (1814, vol. 1, 487-8) observed that the ruins of the church survived but that few traditions regarding St Mainchín persisted, except ‘the awkwardness of the site he pitched upon for his church’. According to Westropp (1900-2, 109-10), a church was founded by St Mac Creiche ‘about 580’ and named for his disciple Mainchín. The church was reputedly built in the dún of Baoth Bronach, king of Corcomroe, who bequeathed the land to the saint (Archdall 1873, Vol. 1, 84-5; Westropp 1910, 154). The site was included by Sheehan (1982, 46) among the early historic ecclesiastical sites in north Clare. Valued at 40s in the 1302-6 Ecclesiastical Taxation, Kilmanaheen has been identified by Ní Ghabhláin (1995, 80) as among a group of ‘high-status parish churches’ that may have been episcopal churches. The church is depicted stylistically and labelled ‘Killmenahean Ch.’ on the Grand Jury Map of Clare (Pelham 1787). O’Donovan reported that ‘not a stone now remains above another, but its graveyard is still in use’ (Comber 1997, 105). The church is not indicated on the first (1840) or Cassini (1916) editions of the OS 6-inch map, but the surrounding graveyard is shown and labelled ‘Kilmanaheen Burial Gd’ on the former map and ‘Kilmanaheen Grave Yard’ on the latter.  The possible remains of a church comprise a rough, overgrown wall footing (L 7m; Wth 0.6m) in the W part of the graveyard.  Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Eve Campbell    Date of upload: 8-10-2025

• CL015-094002 Graveyard
  Description

  On a knoll in low-lying estuarine marsh near the N bank of the W-flowing Inagh River. Accessed via a relict footpath from the N.  Included by Sheehan (1982, 46) among the early historic ecclesiastical sites in north Clare. According to Westropp (1900-2, 109-10), a church (CL015-094001-) was founded by St Mac Creiche ‘about 580’ and named for his disciple Mainchín. A church was reputedly built in the dún of Baoth Bronach, king of Corcomroe, who gave the site to the saint (Archdall 1873, Vol. 1, 84-5; Westropp 1910, 154). Mason (1814, vol. 1, 487-8) observed that the ruins of the church survived but that few traditions regarding St Mainchín persisted, except ‘the awkwardness of the site he pitched upon for his church’. O’Donovan (Comber 1997, 105) recorded that the graveyard was still in use. Indicated as an oval enclosure on both the first (1840) and Cassini (1916) editions of the OS 6-inch map, and labelled ‘Kilmanaheen Burial Gd’ on the former and ‘Kilmanaheen Grave Yard’ on the latter.  An oval-shaped graveyard (49m N-S; 34m E-W) is enclosed by a partially collapsed and overgrown drystone wall (Wth 0.6m; H 1.4m), on a natural knoll (H 1-3m) and is accessed via a stile to the N. Where the wall has collapsed completely only a scarp (H 0.5m) survives. The gravestones are concentrated in the SW sector and comprise broken 19th and 20th century ledger slabs and headstones, as well as small uncarved stone markers. According to local information (1998), the last official funeral in the graveyard was in the 1940s.  There are the possible remains of a church (CL015-094001-) in the W sector.    Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Eve Campbell   Date of upload: 8-10-2025

• CL015-096 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture at the W end of a prominent E-W ridge (just above the 30m contour) with good views to S, W and N. Hachured on both the first (1840) and Cassini (1916) editions of the OS 6-inch map, and named ‘Lissatunna’ on the latter. Classified as an enclosure in the RMP (1996). A densely overgrown bivallate earthen rath (int. 22m E-W) is defined by an inner bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 2m; Wth 4m), a fosse (Wth 4m), and a second, outer bank (ext. H 0.4-1m; Wth 2-4m). A stretch of the outer bank (L 11m) at the SSE has been reduced (H 0.1m; Wth 2m) and a corresponding section of the inner bank has been truncated along its outer face here too. The densely overgrown interior slopes gently down to SE.   Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Eve Campbell   Date of upload: 8-10-2025

Architectural heritage

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

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 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Lissatunna

Area

911,411 m² (91.14 ha, 225.21 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmanaheen, and its townlands

Barony

Corcomroe

Electoral division

Ennistimon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ennistimon electoral division: 2,514 people in 934 households; 63% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 29% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballingaddy West, Castlequarter, Knockbrack

Placenames

Lissatunna 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.