# Lisnanees Upper, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Aghanunshin, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 723,240 m² (72.32 ha, 178.72 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,044 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Aghanunshin, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/aghanunshin.md - Barony: Kilmacrenan - Electoral division: Castlewray, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 3,681 people lived in 1,340 households in the Castlewray electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15450 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51759 - Centre: latitude 54.986876, longitude -7.690216 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisnanees Upper, from 22 m² to 271,725 m² (27.17 ha, 67.14 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1406210: 271,725 m² (27.17 ha, 67.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1406210.md - Parcel 1372603: 252,634 m² (25.26 ha, 62.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1372603.md - Parcel 1380557: 152,261 m² (15.23 ha, 37.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1380557.md - Parcel 1386928: 11,902 m² (1.19 ha, 2.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1386928.md - Parcel 1412897: 4,207 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1412897.md - Parcel 1375139: 2,895 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1375139.md - Parcel 1365681: 2,707 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1365681.md - Parcel 4775460: 2,577 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4775460.md - Parcel 2997317: 2,563 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2997317.md - Parcel 1305535: 2,505 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1305535.md - Parcel 1346806: 2,057 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346806.md - Parcel 1352749: 2,044 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1352749.md - Parcel 1398183: 2,036 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1398183.md - Parcel 4214384: 1,901 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4214384.md - Parcel 1393280: 1,795 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393280.md - Parcel 4133081: 1,779 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4133081.md - Parcel 4065229: 1,748 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4065229.md - Parcel 1405740: 1,642 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1405740.md - Parcel 1372602: 1,472 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1372602.md - Parcel 4214344: 511 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4214344.md - Parcel 1373103: 137 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1373103.md - Parcel 1374014: 117 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1374014.md - Parcel 1376674: 22 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1376674.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 2 Jun 2026, Donegal County Council 2650081: N/a. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH ON-SITE SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2650081/0 - 16 Feb 2026, Donegal County Council 2660209: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SEPTIC TANK INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660209/0 - 21 Nov 2025, Donegal County Council 2562034: Conditional. Permission. ERECTION OF A GARDEN ROOM AND ANCILLARY SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2562034/0 - 18 Jul 2018, Donegal County Council 1851112: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1851112/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Lisnanees Upper. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG053-010: Megalithic tomb - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG053-010----. 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) 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - House, 1840–1880, Regional interest, registry number 40905329, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40905329. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Lisnanees Upper, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as 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 Lisnanees Upper. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/lisnanees-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/lisnanees-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/lisnanees-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Aghalenty: https://everytownland.com/donegal/aghalenty.md - Ballymaleel: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballymaleel.md - Lisnanees Lower: https://everytownland.com/donegal/lisnanees-lower.md - Loughagannon: https://everytownland.com/donegal/loughagannon.md - Woodland: https://everytownland.com/donegal/woodland.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/lisnanees-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/lisnanees-upper