# Lisbeg, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clonfert, barony of Longford, Co. Galway; in Irish An Lios Beag. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,231,424 m² (123.14 ha, 304.29 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 108,579 m² (10.86 ha, 26.83 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Clonfert, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/clonfert.md - Barony: Longford - Electoral division: Clonfert, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 454 people lived in 157 households in the Clonfert electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/17737 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 63051 - Centre: latitude 53.237509, longitude -8.096828 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisbeg, from 5,903 m² (0.59 ha, 1.46 acres) to 1,007,925 m² (100.79 ha, 249.06 acres); 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2026341: 1,007,925 m² (100.79 ha, 249.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2026341.md - Parcel 4796556: 136,686 m² (13.67 ha, 33.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4796556.md - Parcel 5976124: 80,472 m² (8.05 ha, 19.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5976124.md - Parcel 2073920: 5,903 m² (0.59 ha, 1.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2073920.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Lisbeg 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) 2 applications, newest first. - 4 Nov 2025, Galway County Council 25301: N/a. Permission, 1 home. for renovation of of Lisbeg Gate Lodge, a protected structure under the Record of Protected Structures in the Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028 (RPS No. 3277), proposed demolition of existing (non-original) single storey extensions to the east of the existing dwelling, adjustments to opes and the proposed construction of a single storey extension to the east including all associated internal works, a domestic garage to the north, revised site boundaries and all external works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/25301/0 - 30 Jul 2025, Galway County Council 2561050: Conditional. Permission. for a Livestock Underpass, Soiled Water Holding Tank, Farm Roadway and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561050/0 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 Lisbeg. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA100-121: House - 18th/19th century, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA100-121----. The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie. 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) - Lisbeg House, farm house, 1890–1900, Regional interest, registry number 30410015, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=GA®no=30410015. Detached U-plan two-storey house, built c.1895. Three-bay front elevation facing east and having paired windows to end bays, with three-bay single-storey block slightly recessed to east end, having recessed middle bay and slightly advanced gabled north end bay with double windows. Three-bay south elevation having canted middle bay, west elevation having five-bay first floor and six-bay ground floor and one slightly advanced gabled bay with paired windows. Inner side of 'U' of plan has flat-roof two-storey return. Hipped slate roofs to main block and canted bay, pitched slate roofs to other blocks and advanced bays, all with red brick chimneystacks and moulded red brick eaves courses, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with cut limestone plinth course to outer elevations, circular openings to gables of advanced bays with red brick surrounds. Segmental-headed window openings, one blind to south end of east and west elevations, with chamfered red brick block-and-start surrounds and cut limestone sills, and having timber sliding sash windows having one-over-one pane to south elevation and two ground floor openings of east elevation, four-over-four pane elsewhere to two-storey part of east elevation, one-over-one pane to southmost bay of west elevation, and four-over-four pane elsewhere to west elevation. Square-headed window openings to rear elevations with mixed one-over-one, two-over-two, six-over-six and four-over-four pane windows. Square-headed window openings to single-storey block with six-over-six pane windows. Segmental-headed door openings to principal elevations, with chamfered red brick block-and-start surrounds and limestone steps, glazed timber panelled door to south elevation, double-leaf glazed timber panelled door to west, and timber panelled door to east, with overlights. Square-headed door openings with cut limestone steps and timber battened doors to inner elevations of rear returns. Single- and two-storey outbuildings to yard to rear of house, with pitched slate roofs, rendered walls with some exposed rubble limestone, and square-headed openings with replacement fittings. Segmental carriage arch to yard, having cut limestone voussoirs. Stable yard to rear with multiple-bay single-storey recent range of stables to east range having pitched slate roof with wide overhang to front, rendered walls, square-headed doorways, and square-headed window opening with red brick surround, cut limestone sill and timber louvres to south gable. Multiple-bay single-storey outbuildings to north and west ranges with pitched slate roofs with rooflights, rubble stone walls, square-headed window openings with fixed timber windows with pivoting toplights, and square-headed timber battened doors and half-doors. Two-bay single-storey kennels to east elevation of west range, having pitched slate roof, rendered walls and square-headed openings, with metal railings to boundary. - Lisbeg House, gate lodge, 1850–1870, Regional interest, registry number 30410016, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=GA®no=30410016. Detached L-plan two-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c.1860, extended by one bay to east end of south elevation, with more recent flat-roof addition to re-entrant corner of rear. Forward-facing gables to porch recessed to front re-entrant corner of front elevation, and to bays closest to gateway, that to south elevation being slightly lower than main roof. Pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks, and decoratively carved timber bargeboards and finials. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with cut limestone quoins and plinth course. Square-headed window openings with cut limestone surrounds, sills and label-mouldings, with recent timber sliding sash windows, triple three-over-three pane to gables and south elevation addition, double three-over-three pane and two-over-two pane to middle bay of south elevation and later addition respectively, and single two-over-two pane to porch. Square-headed door opening with cut limestone surround and steps and replacement timber panelled door. - Lisbeg House, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1880–1900, Regional interest, registry number 30410033, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=GA®no=30410033. Entrance gates to Lisbeg House, erected c.1860, comprising vehicular entrance flanked by pedestrian entrances, having octagonal-plan cut limestone piers with moulded plinths, string courses and caps, decorative wrought-iron double-leaf gates and similar pedestrian gates. Snecked dressed limestone quadrant walls with crenellations and terminating square-profile dressed limestone piers. Gate lodge stands inside gateway. ## 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 Lisbeg, 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 low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1443, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1443.zip (ZIP). - 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/galway/lisbeg.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/lisbeg.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/lisbeg.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Lisbeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Blacksticks: https://everytownland.com/galway/blacksticks.md - Cloonconra: https://everytownland.com/galway/cloonconra-61252.md - Cloonshease (Daly): https://everytownland.com/galway/cloonshease-daly.md - Cloonshease (Persse): https://everytownland.com/galway/cloonshease-persse.md - Coolcarta East: https://everytownland.com/galway/coolcarta-east.md - Muing: https://everytownland.com/galway/muing.md - Srahaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/srahaun.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/galway/lisbeg - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/lisbeg