Lissane Upper
Townland in the civil parish of Caheragh, barony of Carbery West (East Division), Co. Cork; in Irish Liosán Uachtarach
- Area
- 113.8 ha
- 281 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 18,757 m² (1.88 ha, 4.64 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lissane Upper, from 74 m² to 287,186 m² (28.72 ha, 70.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 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 Lissane Upper 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 Mar 2026Grant with conditions
Construct (a) an extension to the west side of existing cattle house, (b) slatted slurry tank, (c) slatted slurry float channel, (d) an extension to the east side of existing cattle house, (e) a cow house with two no. slatted slurry tanks, (f) concrete cow path, and carry out all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0492
12 Sept 2025Grant with conditions
Erection of dwelling house and associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5893
23 Oct 2023Conditional
Construct a cattle house with slatted slurry tank and carry out all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/597
14 Mar 2018Conditional
To construct a cattle holding yard with slatted slurry tank, plant room, extend existing dairy and carry out associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/132
18 Mar 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/1650
13 Mar 2003Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/1096
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 Lissane Upper.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lissane Upper.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lissane Upper.
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 Lissane Upper.
- 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 Lissane Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Lissane Upper · Liosán Uachtarach
- Area
- 1,138,209 m² (113.82 ha, 281.26 acres)
- Civil parish
- Caheragh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery West (East Division)
- Electoral division
- Bredagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Bredagh electoral division: 664 people in 268 households; 72% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bohernabredagh, Clashduff, Derryduff, Dromduvane, Killahane, Kilmore, Lissane Lower, Tooreen
- Placenames
- Lissane Upper 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.