Lisnacon
Lisnacon is a townland in the civil parish of Dromtarriff, barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Lios na Con.
- Area
- 171.7 ha
- 424 acres
- Land parcels
- 40
- registered freehold, median 9,038 m² (0.9 ha, 2.23 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 31
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisnacon, from 63 m² to 360,219 m² (36.02 ha, 89.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Lisnacon 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
16 Jul 2025Conditional permission
Permission to construct a new machinery shed/dry store & ancillary external concrete. The above be carried out with all associated ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5422
18 Mar 2020Conditional
Retention of i) extension to the rear of the existing dwelling house, ii) domestic garage, iii) pump house all on site with revised boundaries.
Retention · Cork County Council, 20/4565
14 Dec 2016Conditional
To retain as constructed water pump house
Retention · Cork County Council, 16/7136
2 Nov 2016Incompleted application
To retain as constructed water pump house
Retention · Cork County Council, 16/6740
29 Jul 2016Conditional
Permission to: (a) Retain existing farm roadway, (b) Construct a new easy feed slatted unit with associated underground slurry storage tanks. The above to be carried out with all associated ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/5916
8 Jul 2016Withdrawn
To construct a two storey dwelling with wastewater treatment plant, percolation area and all services
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/5710
26 Apr 2016Conditional
Demolish existing building and construct a slatted shed and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4949
5 Apr 2016Incompleted application
Construct a new easy feed slatted unit with associated underground slurry storage tanks along with all associated ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4746
8 Jun 2011Conditional
Construction of dwellinghouse, domestic garage, proprietary treatment unit and new entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/5239
23 Dec 2009Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse and treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/8080
23 Dec 2008Conditional
Construction of one and a half storey dwellinghouse (Alterations to the design from that previously permitted under Pl. Reg. No. 07/7950)
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/10349
22 Aug 2008Conditional
Alterations and extension to thatched cottage to include conversion of outbuilding to living accommodation and construction of link corridor between existing cottage and outbuilding, installation of wastewater treatment system and associated services
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/8533
28 Apr 2008Conditional
Retention of attached garage as constructed to side of dwelling ,windows on front elevation,additional window to side elevation, and patio door to rear elevation
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/6356
3 Apr 2008Incompleted application
Retention of attached garage/utility as constructed and retention of alterations to dwellinghouse to include windows on front elevation, additional window to side elevation and patio door to rear elevation
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5812
5 Mar 2008Incompleted application
Retention of alterations to dwellinghouse to include windows on front elevation, additional window to side elevation, patio door to rear elevation and attached garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5219
1 Feb 2008Incompleted application
Retention of alterations to dwellinghouse and retention of dettached garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/4494
28 Nov 2007Conditional
Dwellinghouse,proprietary treatment unit
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 07/12697
2 Oct 2007Conditional
Construction of agricultural entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11381
13 Sept 2007Incompleted application
Open new agricultural entrance on to public road
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/10967
18 May 2007Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7950
12 Feb 2007Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 07/4957
16 Oct 2006Conditional
Conversion of existing outbuildings to short term letting residential holiday unit with car parking spaces, entrance and septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/11450
14 Sept 2006Withdrawn
Two storey dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/10602
8 Aug 2006Incompleted application
Two storey dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9551
9 Mar 2006Refused
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/5405
The 25 most recent of 31 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 Lisnacon.
Recorded monuments
- CO030-204 Fulacht fia
Description
In farmyard. Bowman (1934, 324) recorded a fulacht fiadh on Michael Healy's land. According to local information, former low mound of burnt material was levelled prior to building of slurry pit. 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
- CO030-205 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, atop hill. Circular area (46m NE-SW; 44m NW-SE) enclosed by low rise NW->ENE; scarp (H 1m) ESE->NW topped by wire fence. Scarp skirted by roadway. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 324) as single-ramparted fort in Peter O'Riordan's with about one-third of circuit remaining to form boundary fence between two fields (diam. c. 55yd); 'not recorded on the 1841 OM'. According to local information remains of fort levelled c. 1950s. 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
- CO030-251 House - vernacular house
Description
Described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (Reg. No. 20903009) as a 'Detached six-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1800. Hipped thatched roof having rendered chimneystack. Painted roughcast rendered walls having painted smooth rendered plinths and edges to ends. Square-headed window openings having replacement metal casement windows with render sills. Square-headed door openings having timber battened doors. Recent outbuildings to rear, comprising three-bay two-storey building with external steps to gable, and single-storey three-bay addition attached to north, having pitched corrugated-iron roofs, rendered walls and square-headed openings with timber battened windows fittings and doors.' (http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CO®no=20903009) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 08 October 2013
- CO031-002 Mine
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
- House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached six-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1800. Hipped thatched roof having rendered chimneystack. Painted roughcast rendered walls having painted smooth rendered plinths and edges to ends. Square-headed window openings having replacement metal casement windows with render sills. Square-headed door openings having timber battened doors. Recent outbuildings to rear, comprising three-bay two-storey building with external steps to gable, and single-storey three-bay addition attached to north, having pitched corrugated-iron roofs, rendered walls and square-headed openings with timber battened windows fittings and doors.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Lisnacon, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- 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_561 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Lisnacon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Lisnacon · Lios na Con
- Area
- 1,717,461 m² (171.75 ha, 424.39 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dromtarriff, and its townlands
- Barony
- Duhallow
- Electoral division
- Coolclogh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 399 people lived in 139 households in the Coolclogh electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Lisnacon 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.