Lisheen Lower
Townland in the civil parish of Aghadown, barony of Carbery West (East Division), Co. Cork; in Irish An Lisín Íochtarach
- Area
- 25.2 ha
- 62 acres
- Land parcels
- 24
- registered freehold, median 5,875 m² (0.59 ha, 1.45 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisheen Lower, from 48 m² to 39,563 m² (3.96 ha, 9.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Lower 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
19 Feb 2021Conditional
A) Permission to construct a single storey extension to dwelling including all associated siteworks, B) Permission for retention of a single storey extension to dwelling C) Permission for retention of elevational changes to dwelling as granted under planning Reg No. 03/5571
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/122
3 Feb 2021Conditional
Domestic Garage / Storage shed and associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/71
16 May 2006Conditional
Domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/873
26 Apr 2006Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse and associated site development works
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/729
27 Mar 2006Incompleted application
Dwelling and septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/519
27 Mar 2006Refused
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/511
13 Jul 2005Withdrawn
2 no. dwellinghouses
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/4984
10 Nov 2003Conditional
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/5571
30 Oct 2003Conditional
Detached domestic garage with games room over
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/5409
31 Mar 2003Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/1436
21 Jan 2002Conditional
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 02/165
2 Jul 2001Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 01/3782
3 Nov 2000Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 00/6596
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 Lower.
Recorded monuments
- CO140-056 Boulder-burial
Description
In pasture on E side of Roaringwater Bay. Boulder with somewhat rounded top surface (2.6m x 1.5m; T 0.9m) rests above three support stones. (O Nualláin 1978, 94, no. 29; Roberts 1988, Ch. 3, no. 20) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Architectural heritage
- Church/chapel, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding gable-fronted double-height Roman Catholic church, built c.1820, with four-bay nave, sacristy addition to south-west and flat roof porch addition to north-east. Pitched artificial slate roofs, with bellcote (north-east elevation), cross finials, cast-iron rainwater goods and having rendered chimneystack to sacristy. Painted rendered walls with rendered quoins, sill course and string course. Pointed arch openings with lead fixed pane stained glass windows and block-and-start surrounds. Pointed arch opening to north-east elevation with lead fixed pane Marian stained glass window and block-and-start surrounds. Pointed arch opening to south-east elevation of porch with recent timber panelled double-leaf door and rendered surround. Interior retaining quarry tiles, timber ceiling and timber balcony with cast-iron supporting columns.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lisheen Lower.
- 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 Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Lisheen Lower · An Lisín Íochtarach
- Area
- 252,441 m² (25.24 ha, 62.38 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aghadown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery West (East Division)
- Electoral division
- Aghadown South, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Aghadown South electoral division: 623 people in 252 households; 85% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 23% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardnagroghery, Kilkilleen, Kilsarlaght, Lisheen Upper
- Placenames
- Lisheen Lower 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.