Lisroe
Townland in the civil parish of Kilgarriff, barony of Carbery East (East Division), Co. Cork; in Irish An Lios Rua
- Area
- 36.7 ha
- 91 acres
- Land parcels
- 5
- registered freehold, median 3,716 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisroe, from 1,572 m² to 358,284 m² (35.83 ha, 88.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Lisroe 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
1 Jun 2026Grant with conditions
Construct a milking parlour, dairy, plant room, roofed cattle holding yard with slatted soiled water tank, roofed cattle handling yard with slatted slurry tank, feed storage bin, rainwater harvesting tank, concrete apron, earth walled bund to existing overground slurry storage tank and carry out all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1455
8 Nov 2022Conditional
Construction of new single storey dwelling, alterations to existing site entrance, new waste water treatment system, new well, and all ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/682
23 Oct 2009Withdrawn
Permission for retention of 5no. temporary prefabricated structures consisting of 2no. classrooms, 1no. remedial classroom and store, 1no. remedial classroom and 1no. office and associated site works
Retention · Cork County Council, 09/2029
23 Oct 2009Withdrawn
Decommission of existing septic tank and permission for the installation of a small treatment plant and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/2028
30 Mar 2007Conditional
Construction of slurry storage tank, reception tank, effluent channels and all associated concrete aprons
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/917
13 Dec 2005Refused
3 no. dwellinghouses with garages
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/9237
25 Jun 2003Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/3110
15 Oct 2001Refused
5 no. dwellings, garages and treatment units
Permission · Cork County Council, 01/5655
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 Lisroe.
Recorded monuments
- CO122-033 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, atop moraine, 200m N of Argideen river. Circular, slightly raised area (24m N-S; 22m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 2.2m). Entrance to NE. Cultivation ridges cross interior on E-W axis; souterrain (CO122-110---) in SE quadrant. 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
- CO122-110 Souterrain
Description
Depression (L 4m; Wth 3.3m) in SE quadrant ringfort (CO122-033---) may indicate presence of collapsed souterrain. 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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lisroe.
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 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 Lisroe.
- 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 Lisroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Lisroe · An Lios Rua
- Area
- 367,185 m² (36.72 ha, 90.73 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilgarriff, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery East (East Division)
- Electoral division
- Clonakilty Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Clonakilty Rural electoral division: 2,213 people in 709 households; 78% of households own their home; 51% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Garranecore, Knockea, Knockskagh, Letter
- Placenames
- Lisroe 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.