Liscooly

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Liscooly, from 1,343 m² to 194,710 m² (19.47 ha, 48.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Liscooly 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.

• 11 Apr 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED STORAGE SHED TO FACILITATE THE INSTALLATION OF MILK DISPENSARY MACHINES AS PART OF A FARM DIVERSIFICATION PLAN AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250617

• 2 Feb 2022Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED STORAGE SHED TO FACILITATE INSTALLATION OF MILK DISPENSARY MACHINES AS PART OF A FARM DIVERSIFICATION PLAN AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250124

• 26 Oct 2021Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF (A) A PASTEURISATION ROOM TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING MILKING PARLOUR (B) DETACHED STORAGE SHED TO FACILITATE INSTALLATION OF MILK DISPENSARY MACHINES AS PART OF A FARM DIVERSIFICATION PLAN (2) ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS WHICH INCLUDE UPGRADING OF EXISTING VEHICULAR ENTRANCE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152107

• 22 Jun 2020Conditional

  RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND STORE WITH ATTACHED LEAN TO STRUCTURE INCORPORATING A HORSE STABLE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2050804

• 19 Dec 2018Conditional

  PROVISION OF AN UNDERGROUND EFFLUENT STORAGE TANKS WITHIN EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHEDS AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851916

• 21 Jun 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING SCHOOL BUILDING COMPRISING OF A SPECIAL EDUCATION TUITION ROOM WITH ANCILLARY ACCOMMODATION AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750962

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Finn SAC 002301

Recorded monuments

• DG079-013 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  The standing stone referred to in the heading (Lacy 1983) is the only surviving one of 'four remarkable stones...two of them placed so as to form a grave' that stood in the same field (OS Revision Name Book, 1845). The three missing stones stood c. 75m S of the extant one. The name 'Giant's Grave' written beside these on a pre-publication field map of 1845 was shortly thereafter crossed out, as the three stones were removed by mid-1846. Thomas Fagan (1845-8) visited here between 7 July and 29 August 1846 and remarked of the extant standing stone that it was the remaining one of a number of stones that had 'lately' stood in the same field. The nature of the supposed 'Giant's Grave' is not known. It is worth recording that near to this place (no precise location is given) workmen engaged in levelling a fort found 'a stone coffin containing bones, and an urn, with some other ornaments' (OS Revision Name Book, 1845). This may have been a Bronze Age cist burial. OS Revision Name Book, sheet 79 (1845) [12]; Fagan 1845-8, book 12, 4; Lacy 1983, 83, no. 447; SMR 1987, 79:13; RMP 1995, 79:13. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG079-044001 Cist
  Description

  On undulating agriculture land. Three short cists (DG079-044001-, DG079-044003- and DG079-044004-) and a fourth possible funerary monument (DG079-044002-) were identified here in 2004. This, the first cist, was uncovered 0.8m below ground level during levelling with a bulldozer prior to the laying of foundations for farm buildings. It was excavated (Licence: 04E0505) in the same year by Shine and Sikora on behalf of the National Museum of Ireland. Rectangular cist (1.17m N−S; 0.67m E−W; D 0.51) whose N, S and W sides were defined by single slabs set on edge. The slab at the N end had been displaced by the ground works. The E side had two slabs, one on top of the other. The floor was paved with three slabs. The capstone was not located. Upon the floor was the skeleton of a young, probably male adult with accompanying intact bipartite bowl with impressed and incised decoration on its external surface. Analysis of the dental remains indicated that this individual had suffered from some nutritional deficiency and acute illness during early childhood. A sample of bone yielded a radiocarbon date of 2290-2030 BC, indicating the Early Bronze Age (Cahill and Sikora 2011, Vol 1, 140-152). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 February 2013

• DG079-044002 Burial
  Description

  On undulating agriculture land. Three short cists (DG079-044001-, DG079-044003- and DG079-044004-) and a fourth possible funerary monument were identified here in 2004. This, the latter, was investigated (Licence: 04E0505) in the same year by Shine and Sikora on behalf on the National Museum of Ireland. This potential monument comprised a large flat slab c. 3m E of the first cist (DG079-044001-), which it was suspected may have been the capstone for another burial. This stone had been moved from its original position by the bulldozer. Nonetheless it was suggested that some of the bone found in loose earth around the first cist may have originated from here (Cahill and Sikora 2011, Vol 1. 140-152). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 February 2013

• DG079-044003 Cist
  Description

  On undulating agriculture land. Three short cists (DG079-044001-; DG079-044003- and DG079-044004-) and a fourth possible funerary monument (DG079-044002-) were discovered here in 2004. This, the second cist, was excavated (Licence: 04E0505) in the same year by Buckley and Buckley on behalf of the National Museum of Ireland. It was located c. 2.2m ESE of the first cist (DG079-044001-). Rectangular structure (int. 0.36m NNE−SSW; 0.91m WNW−ESE; D 0.3m) whose NNW, SSE and WNW sides were defined principally by single slabs set on edge. The ESE side was formed by two interlocking slabs. The floor was composed of a single flat slab. This construction was covered by a single capstone (L 1.3m; Wth 0.6m; T 0.2-0.25m). The cist contained the cremated remains of a young adult accompanied by a simple pottery bowl decorated with impressed designs. The bowl had been placed in the WNW corner and the cremated bone in a conical-shaped mound immediately ESE of this (Cahill and Sikora 2011, Vol 1. 140-152). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 February 2013

• DG079-044004 Cist
  Description

  On undulating agriculture land. Three short cists (DG079-044001-; DG079-044003- and DG079-044004-) and a fourth possible funerary monument (DG079-044002-) were discovered here in 2004. This, the third cist, was excavated (Licence: 04E0505) in the same year by Buckley and Buckley on behalf of the National Museum of Ireland. It was located 3.5m E of the first cist (DG079-044001-) and 2.5m NNW of the second (DG079-044003-). Trapezoidal-shaped structure defined by five slabs set on edge – one each at the E, W and N sides and two at the N. It is narrowest at the N end. The floor was composed of a single slab. The capstone (0.92m x 0.9m; T 0.2m) had been fractured by the bulldozer. The cist contained an inhumation of an adolescent, probably male, accompanied by a bipartite pottery bowl decorated with impressed designs. The skeleton has been placed on its right side in a crouched position with the arms flexed. The bowl had been placed between the pelvis and the elbow (Cahill and Sikora 2011, Vol. 1, 140-152). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 February 2013

Architectural heritage

• Berwick Hall, outbuilding, 1780–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Complex of multiple-bay two-storey outbuildings on L-shaped plan associated with Berwick or Liscooly Hall (see 40907924), built c. 1800 and extended c. 1860. Original building to the extreme east, majority of buildings to the west later additions, c. 1860. Pitched natural slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, remaining sections of cast-iron rainwater goods, and with projecting stone eaves courses. Rubble stone walls with remnants of render surviving in places including to the east gable end. Mainly square-headed window openings (some segmental-headed openings) having red brick surrounds and voussoirs, and battened timber fittings. Loop hole openings in places. Mainly square-headed doorways and loading bays having red brick surrounds and voussoirs, and battened timber doors. Square-headed carriage-arches, some with brick surrounds and red brick relieving arches over, having battened timber double doors. Integral carriage-arch to centre of main block. Set back from road in own grounds to the rear of Berwick Hall, and to the south of Liscooly crossroads, and a short distance to the north of Liscooly Bridge (see 40907919).

• Berwick Hall, country house, 1740–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey over raised basement house, built c. 1760 and possibly containing earlier fabric, having single-storey lean-to extension attached to north gable end, and with single-bay single-storey porch to the north end of the rear elevation (west). Now out of use and dilapidated. Pitched natural slate roof with grey clayware ridge tiles, remaining sections of cast-iron and replacement rainwater-goods, and with two central rendered brick chimneystacks and one red brick chimneystack to the north gable end. Roughcast rendered walls to front elevation having raised rendered block-and-start quoins to the corners; smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls to rear elevation (west) and to the south side elevation; exposed rubble stone walls to the north gable end. Square-headed window openings having smooth rendered reveals, stone sills, and paired one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Long narrow square-headed window openings to front elevation, flanking doorway, having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed window openings to rear elevation having remains of four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows with wrought-iron security bars. Central square-headed doorway to the front elevation (east) having smooth rendered reveals and timber panelled door. Flight of stone steps to entrance. Set back from road in overgrown grounds to the south of Liscooly, and a short distance to the north of Liscooly Bridge (see 40907919). Extensive complex of two-storey outbuildings to the rear (see 40907923). Wrought-iron flat bar gate to the south giving access to yard to the rear (west). Gateway to the east comprising a pair of rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having wrought-iron gate. Rendered boundary wall to road-frontage to the east.

• J. Davis, house, 1820–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Group of three two-bay two-storey houses, built c. 1820 and c. 1880, comprising a pair of semi-detached two-bay two-storey houses to the west with shopfront to building to the east, built c. 1880, and with attached two-bay two-storey house to the east. Various single- and two-storey flat-roof extensions to rear (south). Pitched natural slate roof to two semi-detached buildings to the west having terracotta ridge tiles, some surviving sections of cast-iron rainwater goods, smooth rendered chimneystacks to the gable ends (east and west), and with central yellow brick chimneystack. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls having raised rendered block-and-start quoins to the corners. Painted fascia over shopfront reading ‘J. DAVIS GENERAL MERCHANTS'. Square-headed window openings having render architrave surrounds, painted sills, and replacement windows. Fixed-pane timber window to shopfront. Two central square-headed door openings, one to either building, having render architraved surrounds with fielded keystone detail, plinth blocks to base, overlights, and with early battened timber door to building to the west and replacement timber panelled door to building to the east. Pitched natural slate roof to building to the east end of group having clay ridge tiles, and metal rooflight. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls. Square-headed window openings with painted stone sills, and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorway to the east end of the main elevation (north) having plinth blocks to base, and with replacement timber panelled door. Road-fronted to the centre of the village\crossroads at Liscooly adjacent to road junction. Enclosed garden to the west having rendered boundary wall with wrought-iron railings over. Pedestrian gateway adjacent to the west having a smooth rendered gate pier (on square-plan) having four fielded render panels to front face (north), pyramidal coping over, and with wrought-iron gate. Vehicular gateway to the south-west of site, giving access to rear, comprising a pair of rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having wrought-iron flat bar gate. Ruinous of terrace of buildings adjacent to the east.

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).

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 Liscooly.

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.

No address of the register names Liscooly with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Liscooly · Lios Cúile

Area

522,111 m² (52.21 ha, 129.02 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmore, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Killygordon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killygordon electoral division: 1,146 people in 451 households; 70% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyarrell, Carranadore, Carrick, Carricknashane, Drummurphy, Kiltown, Magheraboy, Meenlougher

Placenames

Liscooly 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.