Lisnanees Upper

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisnanees Upper, from 22 m² to 271,725 m² (27.17 ha, 67.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Lisnanees Upper 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.

• 2 Jun 2026N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH ON-SITE SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2650081

• 16 Feb 2026Conditional

  DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SEPTIC TANK INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660209

• 21 Nov 2025Conditional

  ERECTION OF A GARDEN ROOM AND ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2562034

• 18 Jul 2018Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE (AS CONSTRUCTED) AND RELOCATION OF SAME FROM THAT PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 03/6114 AND PLANNING PERMISSION FOR CONNECTION TO EXISTING WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851112

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Lisnanees Upper.

Recorded monuments

• DG053-010 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  This monument is not shown on any edition of the OS 6-inch map. It stands in sloping pasture, 2.8km W of the inner reaches of Lough Swilly, across which there is an extensive outlook. Hilly ground closeby restricts the outlook to the W and N. The monument consists of a small roofless chamber. A backstone at the ESE and two opposed sidestones adjacent to it form the chamber. It is c. 1.5m long and narrows from 1.7m at its open WNW end to 1.1m at the backstone. A displaced slab, 1.6m by 0.6m by 0.35m thick, rests against the front end of the southern sidestone. There is a partly buried slab, 1 .lm by at least 0.5m and 0.15m thick, at the front of the chamber. This was visible in 1975 and is shown on the plan. By 1983 it had been concealed by a mound of dumped material consisting of roots of furze bushes cleared from the land and some sizeable stones. A grass-grown mound around all but the northern side of the monument measures 5.7m, along the chamber alignment, by 4.2m and is not more than 0.5m high. It seems to be composed largely of stones, and much of it may be derived from field clearance. The backstone is 0.95m in exposed height at its inner face. The northern sidestone is 1.lm high. The southern one overlaps the end of the backstone and is 0.8m high. As a small single chamber facing uphill, this may have been a portal tomb, and it has been so listed in the past (Ó Nualláin 1983a; 1983b). It is possible that the large displaced slab resting against the front of the southern sidestone is a fallen portal-stone. There remains, however, the possibility that the structure is the remnant of a more substantial monument. In the absence of clear diagnostic features, it has since been listed as unclassified (Ó Nualláin 1989). Fagan 1845-8, book 6, 11; Kinahan 1885-6, 427; Borlase 1897, 234, Kilmacrenan no. 30; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 32, no. 59 (plan); Ó Nualláin 1983b, 94, Donegal no. 12; SMR 1987, 53:10; Ó Nualláin 1989, 142; RMP 1995, 53:10. 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 See linked document with details from Eamon Cody, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI. County Donegal. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002)

Architectural heritage

• House, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house with attic level, built c. 1860, having single-bay flat-roofed glazed entrance porch to the centre of the front elevation (east), and single-bay flat-roofed extension to the south. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks to gable ends and replacement rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course; smooth rendered walls to gable ends. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to front and cut limestone sills, and timber casement windows to rear and at attic level to south elevation. Square-headed door opening to rear with timber battened door. Outbuildings to rear comprising two-storey shed with pitched corrugated-metal roof, rubble sandstone walls, and square-headed openings with battened timber doors. Single-storey outbuilding to the south-west having pitched corrugated-metal roof, cement rendered walls, and square-headed openings with battened timber doors. Bounded to front by pebble dashed rubble stone wall with wrought-iron flat bar gate. Located in the rural countryside to the north-east of Letterkenny.

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 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 Lisnanees Upper.

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 Lisnanees Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Lisnanees Upper

Area

723,240 m² (72.32 ha, 178.72 acres)

Civil parish

Aghanunshin, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Castlewray, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castlewray electoral division: 3,681 people in 1,340 households; 83% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghalenty, Ballymaleel, Lisnanees Lower, Loughagannon, Woodland

Placenames

Lisnanees Upper 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.