Liscuill

136 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Liscuill, from 14 m² to 59,804 m² (5.98 ha, 14.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 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 Liscuill 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.

• 24 Jun 2026N/a

  for proposed extension and alterations to existing dwelling house, proposed domestic garage/store and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661057

• 23 Dec 2025Conditional

  for alterations to previously approved extension design granted under planning reference number 20/848, proposed upgrade of existing septic tank to proposed proprietary treatment system & percolation area and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561942

• 29 Aug 2023Conditional

  for: (1) renovation & extension to the rear & side of existing derelict dwellinghouse with demolition of rear single storey extension, & alterations to existing plans & elevations, (2) existing storage shed to be converted to domestic garage/office with demolition of substandard adjoining outbuilding & alternations to existing plans & elevations with proposed extension to the existing shed, (3) renovations & alteration to existing open storage shed plans & elevations, (4) upgrading of existing septic tank to a new sewage treatment system, (5) all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361021

• 11 May 2021Conditional

  & completion of Existing dwelling house to include (A) Extension to the Rear (B) Extension to the Front/Side of Existing dwelling house that was reconstructed and re-configurated to include alterations to walls, windows and roof layout (C) Minor alterations to existing house to include Elevations and changes to External finish of the house, (D) Minor alterations to Elevations of Domestic Garage. Full Planning Permission is sought for (E) renovation of derelict storage shed to the rear of the site to including updating of elevations and structural repair's. (F) New roadside entrance and driveway to dwelling house (G) Upgrading of existing septic tank to a sewage treatment system and all associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 10.1 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 221.98 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21786

• 29 Apr 2021Conditional

  for (A) construction of two proposed extensions to an existing Slatted Shed to provide a Creep/Layback area to existing slatted shed granted under planning reference Number 99/1460, (B) Proposed Storage shed for safe storage of farmyard manure, (C) all associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 208.0 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 21697

• 24 Aug 2020Conditional

  for erection of a dwelling house and domestic garage with septic tank and percolation area and ancillary site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 240 msq.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201181

• 30 Jun 2020Conditional

  to extend & reconstruct dwelling house and all associated site works. Gross floor space of existing dwelling: 114.39 msq

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20848

• 25 Apr 2019Refused

  of agricultural building for the storage of hay/straw with underground rainwater harvesting tank and all associated site development works. Gross floor space of work to be retained 116.4sqm.

  Retention · Galway County Council, 19623

• 3 May 2017Conditional

  for construction of cubicle style livestock shed, slurry storage, silage slab, grain store and all associated site development works. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 1025 sqm.)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17614

• 16 Feb 2017Refused

  of agricultural building for the storage of hay/straw with one section suitable for livestock on a straw bed, Farm yard manure storage area with underground effluent storage tank and all associated site development works. (Gross floor space of works to be retained: 116.4 sqm.)

  Retention · Galway County Council, 17186

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 Liscuill.

Recorded monuments

• GA046-065 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In gently undulating grassland. Well-preserved subcircular rath (E-W 30.5m, N-S 25.8m) defined by a bank and external fosse. The bank is best preserved at SW, and the fosse survives as a vegetation band from E to S. Numerous breaches in the bank appear modern. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Liscuill.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Liscuill.

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 Liscuill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Liscuill · Lios Coill

Area

2,196,584 m² (219.66 ha, 542.79 acres)

Civil parish

Killian, and its townlands

Barony

Killian

Electoral division

Killian, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killian electoral division: 364 people in 141 households; 88% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybaun, Ballynacorra (Davies), Bleannagloos, Cloonascarberry (Cheevers), Creeveroe (Davies), Creeveroe (Ffrench), Killian, Newbridge

Placenames

Liscuill 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.