Lisheen
Townland in the civil parish of Ballyhooly, barony of Fermoy, Co. Cork; in Irish An Lisín
- Area
- 84.7 ha
- 209 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 4,829 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisheen, from 10 m² to 203,260 m² (20.33 ha, 50.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Lisheen 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
25 May 2021Conditional
To erect a single storey dwellinghouse with septic tank and percolation area, detached domestic garage, new site entrance and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5435
2 Oct 2014Conditional
Construction of livestock underpass under a public road including retaining walls, slatted tank, 2 no. vehicle entrances and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/6121
4 Sept 2006Conditional
Construction of livestock housing, extension to silage slab, extension to milking parlour and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/10285
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Lisheen.
Recorded monuments
- CO035-053 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, near top of hill on SE-facing slope. Indicated on 1842 and 1905 OS 6-inch maps as slight curve in N-S field boundary; curve hachured NE->SE on 1935 OS 6-inch map. Field boundary levelled; saucer-shaped, circular area (20m N-S; 20m E-W) survives, defined by low rise (ext. H 0.17m), which survives best to SE and S. Interior raised on SE side to compensate for hillslope; W side of interior slopes down 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
- CO035-152 Burnt mound
Description
Oval shaped spread, very low mound of black soil (charcoal enriched), 8m x 10m, with heat shattered stones. Compiled by: Mary Sleeman Date of upload revision: 14 March 2022
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lisheen.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 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
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Lisheen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Lisheen · An Lisín
- Area
- 846,821 m² (84.68 ha, 209.25 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballyhooly, and its townlands
- Barony
- Fermoy
- Electoral division
- Ballyhooly, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballyhooly electoral division: 1,007 people in 361 households; 71% of households own their home; 56% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymacphilip, Coolinny, Gortroche, Gurteen, Lackendarragh North, Mullenataura
- Placenames
- Lisheen 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.