# Lissatunna, Co. Clare: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Kilmanaheen, barony of Corcomroe, Co. Clare.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 911,411 m² (91.14 ha, 225.21 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,550 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010
- Civil parish: Kilmanaheen, https://everytownland.com/clare/parish/kilmanaheen.md
- Barony: Corcomroe
- Electoral division: Ennistimon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Clare, https://everytownland.com/clare.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/6691
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 31802
- Centre: latitude 52.946641, longitude -9.321536 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lissatunna, from 766 m² to 627,279 m² (62.73 ha, 155 acres); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1500745: 627,279 m² (62.73 ha, 155 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1500745.md
- Parcel 1453763: 42,189 m² (4.22 ha, 10.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1453763.md
- Parcel 1450460: 28,107 m² (2.81 ha, 6.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1450460.md
- Parcel 1521284: 25,184 m² (2.52 ha, 6.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1521284.md
- Parcel 1477411: 23,882 m² (2.39 ha, 5.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1477411.md
- Parcel 1466769: 19,434 m² (1.94 ha, 4.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1466769.md
- Parcel 1520702: 12,889 m² (1.29 ha, 3.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1520702.md
- Parcel 1488977: 4,366 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1488977.md
- Parcel 1444759: 3,960 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1444759.md
- Parcel 1492952: 2,635 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1492952.md
- Parcel 4910319: 2,465 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4910319.md
- Parcel 1444760: 2,316 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1444760.md
- Parcel 1441325: 2,139 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1441325.md
- Parcel 1439726: 1,982 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1439726.md
- Parcel 5261550: 1,889 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5261550.md
- Parcel 2878257: 1,710 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2878257.md
- Parcel 1482134: 1,701 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1482134.md
- Parcel 1473744: 1,385 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1473744.md
- Parcel 5301613: 1,195 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5301613.md
- Parcel 3067012: 766 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3067012.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

1 application, newest first.

- 12 Mar 2018, Clare County Council 18190: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/18190/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Inagh River Estuary SAC, site code 000036, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000036
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Inagh River Estuary, site code 000036

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- CL015-094001: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL015-094001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL015-094002-. 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. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL015-096----. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/clare/lissatunna.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/clare/lissatunna.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/clare/lissatunna.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Lissatunna with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare: https://everytownland.com/clare.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballingaddy West: https://everytownland.com/clare/ballingaddy-west.md
- Castlequarter: https://everytownland.com/clare/castlequarter-30632.md
- Knockbrack: https://everytownland.com/clare/knockbrack-31617.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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