Lissydonnell
Lissydonnell is a townland in the civil parish of Skull, barony of Carbery West (West Division), Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Lios Uí Dhónaill.
- Area
- 90.6 ha
- 224 acres
- Land parcels
- 14
- registered freehold, median 27,360 m² (2.74 ha, 6.76 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lissydonnell, from 1,376 m² to 244,605 m² (24.46 ha, 60.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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 Lissydonnell 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
24 Mar 2003Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/1307
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 Lissydonnell.
Recorded monuments
- CO131-046 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on SE-facing slope. Circular area (25.6m NNE-SSW) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.6m) WSW->ENE; scarp (H 2m) elsewhere; shallow external fosse (max. D 0.5m). Field boundary crossing SE quadrant survives as stone-faced scarp (H 1m). Interior planted with conifers. 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 Lissydonnell.
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 Lissydonnell, about 1 in 20 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lissydonnell.
- 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 Lissydonnell with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Lissydonnell · Lios Uí Dhónaill
- Area
- 906,054 m² (90.61 ha, 223.89 acres)
- Civil parish
- Skull, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery West (West Division)
- Electoral division
- Kilcoe, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 447 people lived in 178 households in the Kilcoe electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cappagh Beg, Cappaghmore, Derreenard, Lissaclarig East, Lissaclarig West, Murrahin, Murrahin North
- Placenames
- Lissydonnell 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.