Liskey
Townland in the civil parish of Clonleigh, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 56.5 ha
- 140 acres
- Land parcels
- 40
- registered freehold, median 2,144 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Liskey, from 20 m² to 158,394 m² (15.84 ha, 39.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Liskey 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
20 Aug 2025Conditional
(1) GROUND AND FIRST FLOOR EXTENSION TO REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING, (2) GARAGE, (3) ENTERTAINMENT ROOM AND (4) RELOCATION OF SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND PERMISSION FOR DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE MATERIALS AND ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561437
15 Aug 2025N/a
(1) GROUND AND FIRST FLOOR EXTENSION TO REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING, (2) GARAGE, (3) ENTERTAINMENT ROOM AND (4) RELOCATION OF SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND PERMISSION FOR DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE MATERIALS AND ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561409
4 Jun 2025N/a
GROUND AND FIRST FLOOR EXTENSION TO REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING AND PERMISSION FOR DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE MATERIALS AND ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560922
30 Jul 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING WITH INTEGRATED GARAGE, SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461160
18 Jul 2024N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING WITH INTEGRATED GARAGE, SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461099
8 Jun 2022Conditional
(A) SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SIDE ELEVATION (B) RETENTION & COMPLETION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR ELEVATION (C) TEMPORARY ERECTION OF A MOBILE HOME STRUCTURE FOR THE DURATION OF THE PROPOSED WORKS AND PERMISSION FOR RENOVATION AND MINOR ELEVATIONAL AMENDMENTS AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2250995
26 Nov 2020Conditional
DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND INSTALLATION OF NEW TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH SOIL POLISHING FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051798
21 May 2018Conditional
RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF NO. 16/50525 WHICH CONSISTS OF THE FOLLOWING: (1) RELOCATION OF DWELLING 11.5M TO THE WEST AND RAISING OF THE FINISHED FLOOR LEVEL BY 1M, (2) RELOCATION OF GARAGE 20M TO THE EAST AND RAISING OF THE FINISHED FLOOR LEVEL BY 1M AND (3) RELOCATION OF ENTRANCE 22M TO THE WEST AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850797
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 Liskey.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Liskey.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Liskey.
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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1897 (ZIP).
- 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 Liskey with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Liskey
- Area
- 564,872 m² (56.49 ha, 139.58 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonleigh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe North
- Electoral division
- Clonleigh North, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Clonleigh North electoral division: 1,429 people in 520 households; 84% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardnasool, Backhill, Shannon Lower, Springhill, Tieveboy
- Placenames
- Liskey 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.