Lisnacunna
Lisnacunna is a townland in the civil parish of Desertserges, barony of Carbery East (East Division), Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Lios na Coinne.
- Area
- 210.6 ha
- 520 acres
- Land parcels
- 54
- registered freehold, median 8,175 m² (0.82 ha, 2.02 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 56
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisnacunna, from 7 m² to 554,921 m² (55.49 ha, 137.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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 Lisnacunna 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
10 Feb 2026Refused
Planning Permission for a temporary 3-year planning permission for the retention of an apartment and an outbuilding (previously permitted as a domestic garage under planning ref 05/3742) Planning permission for these structures to be used as a domestic garage and outbuilding, ancillary to the use of the main dwelling after this period. Planning permission for the removal of two existing septic tanks and the installation of two no. waste water treatment units and percolation areas and all associate site works
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 26/0294
5 Feb 2026Application withdrawn
Permission to temporarily retain mobile home and permanently retain public road entrance. Permission is also sought to construct dwelling, detached domestic garage and all associated site works.
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 26/0244
22 Dec 2023Conditional permission
Permission for the construction of dwelling and domestic garage for storing a campervan.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/6574
14 Jun 2023Withdrawn
Permission for the erection of a garage for 2 no. well drilling rigs and demolition of existing store
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5211
28 Apr 2023Incompleted application
The erection of a garage for 2 No. well drilling rigs and demolition of existing store.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4842
30 Sept 2022Conditional
Permission sought for dwelling house and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6208
6 Sept 2022Conditional
Retention of base and permission for completion of extension to north side of existing dwelling house and permission for the construction of a domestic garage and store
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6007
27 Jun 2022Conditional
Construct a dwelling house, garage and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5491
6 Apr 2022Incompleted application
The Construction of an extension to north side of existing dwelling house and the construction of a garage and store
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4756
23 Feb 2022Withdrawn
The erection of a dwelling house and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4386
29 Mar 2021Conditional permission
To construct dwelling and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4762
1 Jul 2020Refused
To construct dwelling and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5357
12 May 2020Incompleted application
To construct dwelling and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4945
14 Mar 2019Unconditional
Construction of dwelling, detached garage and associated site works
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 19/4729
24 Nov 2015Incompleted application
Construct a storage shed for the purpose of storing vintage machinery
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6651
28 Apr 2015Conditional
Construction of cattle house with slatted tanks, 2 no. silage pits, 2 no. meal bins and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/4871
17 Apr 2015Unconditional
Construction of dwellinghouse, installation of treatment unit and all associated site works, Extension of Duration to permission granted under Planning Reg. No. 10/4434
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 15/4785
16 Apr 2015Conditional
Construction of cattle house with slatted slurry tank, concrete apron and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/4766
31 Mar 2015Incompleted application
Constructi6on of cattle house with slatted tanks, 2no. silage pits, 2no. meal bins and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/4632
24 Mar 2015Incompleted application
Construction of cattle house with slatted tanks, 2no. silage pits, 2no. meal bins and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/4560
20 Feb 2015Refused
Construction of anaerobic digestion facility comprising of 1 no. reception building, 1 no. digester tank, 3 no. pre-storage tanks, 1 no. storage tank, 1 no. combined heat and power unit, 1 no. flare, biofilter, office and control room, weighbridge, wheel wash area, access road, parking spaces, bunding and all associated site works and services
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/4335
27 Jun 2014Withdrawn
Construction of cattle house with slatted tanks, 2no. silage pits, 2no. meal bins and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5372
28 Mar 2014Conditional
Construction of a dwelling with associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/4624
14 Mar 2014Conditional
Construction of dwelling, detached garage and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/4538
28 Feb 2014Incompleted application
Construction of dwelling with associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/4400
The 25 most recent of 56 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 Lisnacunna.
Recorded monuments
- CO109-053001 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, at base of SSE-facing slope. Hachured as circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m) on 1st ed. O.S. map; levelled c. 1982. Enclosing earthen bank survives in field fence system ESE->SSW (H 1.6m). Souterrain (CO109-053002) in interior. 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 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 26/1976).
- CO109-053002 Souterrain
Description
In ringfort (CO109-053001-). Oval, earth-cut chamber (L 4.7m; Wth 1.35m; H 1.3m) with stone-built passage (Wth 0.6m; H 0.4m) explored for 2.7m. Creepways in centre S wall chamber and at SE end passage (McCarthy 1977, 287-289). Ringfort levelled 1982; no visible surface trace. 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 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 26/1976).
- CO109-054 Ringfort - rath
Description
In ploughed field, atop hillock. Ringfort (CO109-055----) nearby to NE. Marked as roughly circular enclosure, abutting field fence to N, on O.S.map (1842). No visible surface trace. 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
- CO109-055 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on SE-facing slope. Circular area (39m NNW-SSE; 39m ENE-SWS) enclosed by earthen bank (H 3m); silted-up fosse to ENE. Interior raised on S side to compensate for hillslope. Field boundary concentric with and 16m outside bank to N. 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
- CO122-023 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on S facing slope. Circular area (diam. c. 30m) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.1m); external fosse to N (D 0.5m). Interior heavily overgrown; raised on S side to compensate for hillslope. Surrounding field fences have been removed. 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
- CO122-024 Standing stone
Description
In pasture with commanding view to S. Irregular stone aligned NE-SW (H 1.4m; 1.3m x 1m). 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
- CO122-094 Souterrain
Description
Discovered March 1984. Cleary (1989, 27-8) records at least three earth-cut chambers. Chamber 1 rectangular in plan; roof collapsed; infilled creepway at E end may have been original entrance shaft. Chamber 2 to SE of chamber 1; square in plan. Creephole on W side of chamber 1 to third chamber which is circular in plan. Blocked-up creephole in chamber 3 may have led to further chambers. Possibly associated with ploughed-out ringfort (CO122-094001-) which according to Cleary is 'still visible as low banks'. 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
- CO122-094001 Ringfort - rath
Description
The remains of a ploughed-out rath which is 'still visible as low banks' (pers. comm. Rose Cleary) associated with the souterrain (CO122-094----). 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
- Bridge, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Single-span rubble stone and red brick bridge, built c.1865, carrying road over disused railway. Square-headed arch having steel girder deck with red brick parapets. Rubble stone piers having red brick quoins.
- Bridge, 1880–1890 · Regional interest
Description
Single-span humpback road bridge, built c.1885, spanning former railway line. Square-headed arch with cast-iron lintels and concrete deck, springing from snecked squared rubble stone piers, flanked by battered snecked squared rubble stone abutment to east. English bond red-brick parapets with red brick coping continued to east and west by snecked rubble stone walls with round-headed render coping.
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 Lisnacunna, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lisnacunna.
- 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 Lisnacunna with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Lisnacunna · Lios na Coinne
- Area
- 2,106,334 m² (210.63 ha, 520.49 acres)
- Civil parish
- Desertserges, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery East (East Division)
- Electoral division
- Boulteen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 695 people lived in 237 households in the Boulteen electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ahalisky, Carrigroe, Cashel More, Garranelahan, Knocknanuss, Knocknastooka, Maulnarouga South, Tullymurrihy
- Placenames
- Lisnacunna 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.