Lisleagh
Townland in the civil parish of Ballyclogh, barony of Orrery and Kilmore, Co. Cork; in Irish An Lios Liath
- Area
- 175.9 ha
- 435 acres
- Land parcels
- 54
- registered freehold, median 2,044 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 26
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisleagh, from 66 m² to 554,896 m² (55.49 ha, 137.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Lisleagh 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
13 Feb 2026Grant with conditions
Permission to install a tarmacadamed surface over the existing hard standing entrance driveway and parking areas and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0358
17 Oct 2025Grant with conditions
Permission to construct a new dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6227
24 Oct 2024Conditional
Permission to a) construct a new dwelling house, b) construct a new vehicular entrance and c) install a new septic tank, percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/6015
1 Nov 2023Conditional
Permission for retention and completion of: 1) Alterations to dwelling houses permitted under Pl.Reg.No. 20/6895 (currently under construction). The alterations include: (a) Changes in Finished Floor Level of unit 1 to 6, (b) Alterations to window and door positions and sizes on all houses types, (c) The omission of a window to the gable of house type B1 and D1, (d) Minor increases in ridge height of all dwelling houses, (e) Minor alterations to the floor area of all dwelling houses, (f) Changes to internal site layout, (g) Stone finish to roadside boundary wall and (h) all associated site development works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/6198
18 Aug 2023Conditional permission
For the importation of clean inert soil and stone for the raising of a former quarry site in order to improve the agricultural output and the construction of a new temporary haul road.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5681
2 Aug 2023Incompleted application
Permission for the importation of clean inert soil & stone for the raising of a former quarry site in order to improve the agricultural output and the construction of a new temporary haul road
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5579
20 Jun 2023Conditional
Permission for 1) a hurling wall, 2) an astroturf all weather playing pitch, with perimeter fencing and 4 no. floodlighting masts, and 3) a grass training pitch, and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5263
1 Jun 2023Incompleted application
1) A hurling wall, 2) An AstroTurf all weather playing pitch, with perimeter fencing and 4 No. floodlight masts, and 3) A grass training pitch and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5124
11 Nov 2022Conditional
Permission to construct a dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6517
18 Dec 2020Conditional
The demolition of the existing boundary wall and all ancillary structures; the construction of 18 no. two-storey dwellings consisting of 2 no. 4-bed detached units, 8 no. 3-bed semi-detached units, 4no. 3-bed terraced units and 4no. 2-bed terraced units; replacement of the existing access to provide 1no. new vehicular/pedestrian/cyclist access; provision of 1no. new pedestrian/cyclist access; new boundary wall and footpath; pumping station; parking and all associated site development, drainage, landscaping, and public lighting works. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6895
14 May 2019Conditional
Permission to construct (i) loose shed (ii) slatted shed (iii) storage shed and all associated site works and Retention of slatted shed
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5214
18 Oct 2018Conditional
Hurling wall and all weather playing pitch with perimeter fencing and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6763
27 Jan 2016Conditional
Permission to construct a workshop extension to the existing light engineering workshop, to remove existing portacabin offices and to construct new ancillary offices attached to the existing workshop, and for permission to retain the extension of the site boundary eastwards, the undertaking of ground works, the creation of additional areas of hard standing, and minor alterations to the elevations of the constructed warehouse and to the location of the site entrance from that permitted under 97/155 and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4121
20 Aug 2015Incompleted application
Construction of workshop extension to existing light engineering workshop, to remove existing portacabin offices and to construct new ancillary offices attached to the existing workshop and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5847
23 Apr 2015Conditional
Construction of single storey building to contain a gym and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/4830
11 Dec 2013Conditional
Construction of a single storey extension to side of existing dwelling house including all ancillary site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/6350
2 Oct 2012Refused
Demolition of existing structures, construction of 15 no. two storey dwellinghouses and 390 sq m retail single storey building comprising 1 no. retail unit at 290 sq m and 2 no. retail units at 50 sq m, and all associated site works, car parking and landscaping, extension of duration to permission granted under An Bord Pleanala reference no. PL 04.222687(planning reg.no. 06/8022)
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 12/6080
9 Feb 2010Refused
Provision of hardcore surface yard for the storage of commercial vehicles, entrance gates and ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4240
13 Jun 2006Conditional
Demolition of existing structures, construction of 15 no. two storey dwellinghouses and 390 sq m retail single storey building comprising 1 no. retail unit at 290 sq m and 2 no. retail units at 50 sq m, and all associated site works, car parking and landscaping
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/8022
31 May 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/3733
3 Mar 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse and waste water treatment unit
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 05/1256
24 Jan 2005Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 05/254
17 Nov 2004Conditional
4 no. dwellinghouses
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/8482
26 Oct 2004Incompleted application
4 no. dwellinghouses
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/7934
9 Jul 2004Conditional
Construction of Commercial unit for light Industrial use adjacent to existing workshop and installation of treatment unit ot serve both units
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/5260
The 25 most recent of 26 applications.
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 Lisleagh.
Recorded monuments
- CO024-138 Ritual site - holy well
Description
On E bank of stream, in steep-sided wooded valley. D-shaped well (3.5m N-S; 2m E-W) enclosed by stone wall (H 1.75m; Wth 0.5m) S->N and by low cliff face on E side. Overgrown and abandoned. In similar condition when visited by Grove White (1905-25, vol. 1, 140) who noted that '...formerly it was much frequented for the cure of sore eyes' and '...according to OS Field Book of 1840, it is called Tubbercooragh a Glynna holy well'. 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 Images provided by and copyright of Amanda Clarke 2016-2022 https://holywellscorkandkerry.com/ CO024-138----_01 submitted to A. Clarke by Michael Fitzgerald after visit
- CO024-139 Ringfort - rath
Description
In tillage, on gentle S-facing slope. Depicted on 1842 OS 6-inch map as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) incorporated into field fence system at N. Levelled; arc (C c. 25m) formed by stone faced earthen bank (int. H 1.5m; ext. H 1.5m) survives to N in field fence system. Bank similar to field fence on either side of it; heavily overgrown. 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
- CO024-214 Enclosure
Description
Cropmark of two concentric fosses of ovoid enclosure (diam. c. 50m) visible in aerial photograph (CASAP, July 1989); cropmark of outer fosse fainter than inner. Enclosure bisected on E-W axis by field fence (shown on 1937 OS 6-inch map) which was levelled by 1989; macula noted on S side of field fence off-centre to E. 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
Architectural heritage
- Gate lodge, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c. 1820, now disused. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles and central facer bond red brick chimneystack. Limestone rubble walls drawn to courses and with peck-dressed limestone quoins. Square-headed openings having peck-dressed limestone voussoirs and limestone sills, with one fixed six-pane timber window and timber battened door. Set to west of curved entrance gateway comprising snecked squared rubble limestone walls terminating in limestone ashlar square-plan piers with plinths, moulded string courses and cornices and pyramidal caps with double-leaf decorative cast-iron vehicular gates.
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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lisleagh.
- 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 Lisleagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Lisleagh · An Lios Liath
- Area
- 1,758,999 m² (175.9 ha, 434.66 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballyclogh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Orrery and Kilmore
- Electoral division
- Kilmaclenine, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilmaclenine electoral division: 709 people in 266 households; 85% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyclogh, Croughta, Derryorgan, Mountnorth, Rathnee, Scart
- Placenames
- Lisleagh 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.