Liskeran
Townland in the civil parish of Stranorlar, barony of Raphoe South, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 289 ha
- 714 acres
- Land parcels
- 32
- registered freehold, median 29,609 m² (2.96 ha, 7.32 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Liskeran, from 18 m² to 441,046 m² (44.1 ha, 108.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Liskeran 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
28 Aug 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A HORSE STABLE BLOCK WITH ANCILLARY ACCOMMODATION, OUTDOOR EXERCISE ARENA WITH PERIMETER FENCING AND LIGHTING, DEVELOPMENT OF A SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED AND ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351265
27 Apr 2022Conditional
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE (2) CONVERSION AND RE-USE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE ON SITE INTO A STORAGE SHED AND GARAGE WITH ATTACHED CAR PORT ANCILLARY TO THE PROPOSED NEW DWELLING HOUSE (3) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK ON SITE AND DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250748
22 May 2019Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950750
21 Jun 2018Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH APPROVED EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850975
31 May 2017Refused
AMENDMENT TO PERMITTED DEVELOPMENT UNDER PLANNING APPLICATION REGISTER REFERENCE 10/60277 EXTENDED UNDER REF 15/50406 OF A WIND TURBINE OF 60 METRES HUB HEIGHT AND 39 METRES BLADE DIAMETER WITH AN OVERALL BLADE TIP HEIGHT OF 79.5 METRES - TO A PROPOSED HUB HEIGHT OF 50 METRES AND A BLADE DIAMETER OF UP TO 53 METRES WITH AN OVERALL BLADE TIP HEIGHT OF 76.5 METRES
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750842
12 May 2017N/a
AN AMENDMENT TO PERMITTED DEVELOPMENT UNDER PLANNING APPLICATION REGISTER REFERENCE 15/50406 OF A WIND TURBINE OF 60 METRES HUB HEIGHT AND 39 METRES BLADE DIAMETER WITH AN OVERALL BLADE TIP HEIGHT OF 79.5 METRES - TO A PROPOSED HUB HEIGHT OF 50 METRES AND A BLADE DIAMETER OF UP TO 53 METRES WITH AN OVERALL BLADE TIP HEIGHT OF 76.5 METRES
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750722
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 Liskeran.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Liskeran.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Liskeran.
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 Liskeran.
- 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 Liskeran with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Liskeran
- Area
- 2,890,421 m² (289.04 ha, 714.24 acres)
- Civil parish
- Stranorlar, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe South
- Electoral division
- Stranorlar, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Stranorlar electoral division: 4,706 people in 1,787 households; 61% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloghroe, Creggan, Lettermakenny, Magheravall or Midcut, Meenagrauv, Meenavoy
- Placenames
- Liskeran 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.