Lissarankin
Townland in the civil parish of Castlehaven, barony of Carbery West (East Division), Co. Cork; in Irish Lios an Ruacháin
- Area
- 58.6 ha
- 145 acres
- Land parcels
- 12
- registered freehold, median 25,471 m² (2.55 ha, 6.29 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lissarankin, from 592 m² to 162,894 m² (16.29 ha, 40.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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
- G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 19 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
18 Dec 2008Conditional
Dwellinghouse and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/2206
19 May 2008Refused
Dwelling house and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/930
29 Jun 2007Conditional
Agricultural development to include loose cattle house
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1761
2 Jan 2007Conditional
Alterations and extensions to dwelling, including demolition of outbuilding and construction of smaller outbuilding
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6
6 Jan 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse and domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/18
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 Lissarankin.
Recorded monuments
- CO142-064 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on gentle N-facing slope, overlooked by higher ground to NW, N and NE. Circular, slightly raised area (51m N-S; 49m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.5m). Break in bank to SW (Wth 2m). Shallow depression (D 0.4m) inside and concentric with bank. 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 Lissarankin.
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 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 Lissarankin.
- 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 Lissarankin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Lissarankin · Lios an Ruacháin
- Area
- 585,570 m² (58.56 ha, 144.7 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castlehaven, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery West (East Division)
- Electoral division
- Castlehaven North, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Castlehaven North electoral division: 817 people in 315 households; 80% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 20% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Farranagilla, Gortnaclohy, Lettertinlish, Moneyvollahane, Rea, Russagh
- Placenames
- Lissarankin 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.