Lisheens
Townland in the civil parish of Kilnaglory, barony of Muskerry East, Co. Cork; in Irish Na Lisíní
- Area
- 4.7 ha
- 12 acres
- Land parcels
- 8
- registered freehold, median 1,612 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisheens, from 52 m² to 31,981 m² (3.2 ha, 7.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Lisheens 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
15 Jul 2022Conditional
Intend to apply for 10 year planning permission. Underground electricity grid connection cabling, substation and ancillary site works. The development will comprise (1) a grid connection consisting of medium voltage cables and ducting in a excavated trench with a total length of c.1194 meters which will be installed on private land and public roads (L-2216 & L-22161); (2) control/switching substation consisting of either (i) single storey block building or (ii) 2 no. modular units; (3) cable beam over grange hill stream; (4) provision of ring main unit (RMU); (5) and all associated site development and reinstatement works. The proposed development includes minor revisions to the approved layout of the solar farm previously permitted under Cork County Council planning reference 18/5760 comprising omission of substation and satellite mast, and provision of the above referenced RMU, and the addition of a cable beam and underground cabling. The purpose of the proposed development is to connect the permitted solar farm under reference 18/5760 to the national grid at the existing Ballincollig 38Kv substation.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5656
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 Lisheens.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lisheens.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lisheens.
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 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 Lisheens.
- 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 Lisheens with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Lisheens · Na Lisíní
- Area
- 46,856 m² (4.69 ha, 11.58 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilnaglory, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry East
- Electoral division
- Ballincollig, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballincollig electoral division: 1,428 people in 425 households; 93% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Greenfield, Kilnaglory, Lisheens
- Placenames
- Lisheens 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.