# Castlelishen, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilbolane, barony of Orrery and Kilmore, Co. Cork; in Irish Caisleán an Lisín. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,149,949 m² (114.99 ha, 284.16 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,708 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 9 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilbolane, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/kilbolane.md - Barony: Orrery and Kilmore - Electoral division: Tullylease, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 412 people lived in 162 households in the Tullylease electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/10847 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 41423 - Centre: latitude 52.323465, longitude -8.884861 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlelishen, from 1,894 m² to 439,342 m² (43.93 ha, 108.56 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2503732: 439,342 m² (43.93 ha, 108.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2503732.md - Parcel 2503615: 267,471 m² (26.75 ha, 66.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2503615.md - Parcel 2228171: 233,329 m² (23.33 ha, 57.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2228171.md - Parcel 2228169: 97,867 m² (9.79 ha, 24.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2228169.md - Parcel 2228168: 46,120 m² (4.61 ha, 11.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2228168.md - Parcel 2262930: 27,665 m² (2.77 ha, 6.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2262930.md - Parcel 2262931: 5,070 m² (0.51 ha, 1.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2262931.md - Parcel 2228170: 3,878 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2228170.md - Parcel 5261121: 3,848 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5261121.md - Parcel 2503656: 3,708 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2503656.md - Parcel 2503612: 3,384 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2503612.md - Parcel 4979168: 2,589 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4979168.md - Parcel 2262824: 2,569 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2262824.md - Parcel 2262823: 2,363 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2262823.md - Parcel 2262933: 2,203 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2262933.md - Parcel 2118026: 2,187 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2118026.md - Parcel 2262932: 2,113 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2262932.md - Parcel 2228172: 2,013 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2228172.md - Parcel 2262929: 1,894 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2262929.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Castlelishen 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) 9 applications, newest first. - 4 Feb 2026, Cork County Council 26/0219: Grant with conditions. Permission. Permission for construction of (i) Loose shed (ii) extension to agricultural storage shed with loose area and slatted tank and all associated site works. Permission for retention of (i) Walled Dung Stead with effluent tank (ii) loose shed (iii) two slatted sheds and all associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=26/0219 - 30 Nov 2018, Cork County Council 18/7133: Withdrawn. Permission. To construct a Poultry Shed, with feed storage bin, underground discharge tank and all associated site works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=18/7133 - 25 Mar 2015, Cork County Council 15/4565: Refused. Permission. Construction of dwelling house. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=15/4565 - 5 Oct 2009, Cork County Council 09/7235: Conditional. Permission. Dwelling house & septic tank. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=09/7235 - 27 Mar 2008, Cork County Council 08/5689: Conditional. Permission. Dwelling and installation of septic tank. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=08/5689 - 14 Feb 2007, Cork County Council 07/5037: Conditional. Permission. Construction of domestic garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=07/5037 - 23 Jul 2004, Cork County Council 04/5699: Conditional. Permission. Extension to farm building for use as machinery shed. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=04/5699 - 18 Dec 2003, Cork County Council 03/6541: Conditional. Permission. Relocation of entrance to dwelling permitted under reg. no. N/03/2603. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=03/6541 - 29 May 2003, Cork County Council 03/2603: Conditional. Permission. Dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=03/2603 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Castlelishen. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CO006-018: Fulacht fia, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO006-018----. In rough grazing, to E of stream. Overgrown kidney-shaped mound of burnt material (14.2m N-S; H 1m); opening faces W. Area outside of opening (max. Wth 3.6m) bounded on W side by narrow curving mound of burnt material (L c. 14.2m; H 0.4m), clear of overgrowth. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009 - CO006-019: Architectural fragment, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO006-019----. This stone, with a spiral motif carved in relief, is set into a gate pier c. 200m to SW of tower house (CO006-020001-) and probably originally came from it. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009 - CO006-020001: Castle - tower house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO006-020001-. In farmyard, on level pasture, c. 200m W of stream. Rectangular tower (c. 15.2m E-W, 9.3m N-S) standing to three storeys but originally higher. Entered through wide round-arched ope (Wth 2.1m) at W end of N wall; ope not original. This leads into small lobby from which similarly rebuilt ope leads S to ground-floor chamber; second doorway leads E to straight mural stairs. Ground-floor chamber (6.45m E-W; 4.8m N-S) lit by double-splayed lintelled slit windows in W and S walls. Breach (Wth 2.2m) in E wall probably former window, now partially built up with modern wall; breach (Wth 1.2m) at E end of S wall similarly built up. Straight stair rises to 1st-floor level at NE corner where it rises further as spiral stairs. Main 1st-floor chamber entered from top of straight stairs via pointed-arch door; chamber lit by slit window in W wall and E walls; latter much damaged; wide breach in wall at SE corner. At surviving E end of S wall, W side of a recess, with lintelled slit window, may have been mural chamber; possibly with garderobe. Pointed-arch door at W end of N wall gives access to vaulted mural chamber over doorway; chamber turns into thickness of W wall; breach in W wall. First-floor chamber covered by rounded vault (long axis E-W). Little survives above vault except for slender section of N wall which rises one further storey; E side of window embrasure survives. Three architectural fragments found locally probably came from castle: rectangular slab (0.8m x 0.6m) 'on which is carved the coat of arms of the Fitzgerald family' (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 2, 110), now built into roadside wall beside castle, formerly placed over front door of adjacent country house (14873); stone with spiral motif carved in relief set in gate pier c. 200m to SW of tower house; stone with foliated decoration found in Curra townland c. 1.6km to WNW. Castle of the Fitzgeralds who were in possession until the present century (Ó Murchadha 1985, 150). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009 - CO006-020002: Country house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO006-020002-. Three-storey late 18th/early 19th-century house. Front (SW) of 5 bays; central rectangular door ope obscured by modern porch; central Venetian window ope on 1st floor with modern frame. Steeply pitched hipped roof, slightly projecting eaves; two off-centre chimneys. Central 2-storey gabled addition to rear. According to Grove White (1905-25, vol. 2, 110), sill in drawing room window formerly gargoyle from castle with carved head; second carved stone (18in x 15in) with bird standing in Celtic spiral built into stair wall of farm building behind house. Tower house (14384) of the Fitzgeralds adjacent to farm buildings to ENE. Rectangular slab (0.8m x 0.6m) carved with the coat of arms of Fitzgeralds (ibid.) now built into roadside wall beside house, formerly over front door of house, but originally from adjacent tower house. Ornamental tower (14953) short distance to SE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009 - CO006-020003: Designed landscape - belvedere, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO006-020003-. Square tower, attached to farm building to ESE of Castle Lishen (14873). Two-storey, with rectangular door ope on SW elevation flanked by small rectangular ope. Window opes in 1st floor elevations. Pyramidal-type hipped roof with finial in centre. Known by owner as 'the tea house'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009 - CO006-020004: Armorial plaque, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO006-020004-. This is the record for the original location of CO006-129----, an armorial plaque carved with the Fitzgerald coat of arms. It is now inserted in the N-most wall return of a semi-circular gate wall of 19th-century appearance, the entrance to a late 18th-century country house, Castle Lishen (CO006-020002-). When the plaque was first recorded, it was said to be lying in the garden, and to have previously been placed over the front door to the house (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 2, 110); it may have originally come from the adjacent tower house; its exact original location is not known. Compiled by: Anne-Julie Lafaye - CO006-129: Armorial plaque (present location), https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO006-129----. Rectangular slab (H 0.63m; Wth 0.80m) carved with the Fitzgerald coat of arms . It is inserted in in the N-most wall return of a semi-circular gate wall of 19th-century appearance, the entrance to a late 18th-century country house, Castle Lishen (CO006-020002-). It is unknown when exactly the gate was built or when the armorial plaque was inserted, but when the plaque was first recorded it was said to have originally been placed over the front door to the house (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 2, 110), but was then lying in the garden; it may have originally come from the adjacent tower house (CO006-020001-; see CO006-020004- for record of original location). The plaque is richly carved in relief with a shield bearing the Fitzgerald coat of arm, a hachured saltire cross, ornamented with six fleur-de-lis in between each arm. Above the shield is a helmet of 16th-century style, above which is a knight on horseback, dressed in 16th-century armour, including a similar helmet, and holding a sword pointing upward. Emanating from below the helmet, carvings of elaborate vine-like motifs cover the remaining of the plaque on either side of the knight and the shield. The plaque is also framed on both sides by a line of carved leaves and rosettes hanging from a tassel, while the base of the plaque is decorated with what appear to be snake-like creatures, one of each side of the shield. Compiled by: Anne-Julie Lafaye 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 Castlelishen. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Castlelishen, 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_651, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_651.zip (ZIP). - 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/cork/castlelishen.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/castlelishen.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/castlelishen.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Castlelishen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork: https://everytownland.com/cork.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Acres: https://everytownland.com/cork/acres-40012.md - Ballagharea: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballagharea.md - Carroward East (Co. Limerick): https://everytownland.com/limerick/carroward-east.md - Carroward West (Co. Limerick): https://everytownland.com/limerick/carroward-west.md - Cloonsillagh: https://everytownland.com/cork/cloonsillagh.md - Curra: https://everytownland.com/cork/curra-42013.md - Delliga: https://everytownland.com/cork/delliga.md - Knocknavorahee: https://everytownland.com/cork/knocknavorahee.md - Sheskin: https://everytownland.com/cork/sheskin-45053.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. --- 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. - Page: https://everytownland.com/cork/castlelishen - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cork/castlelishen