Liscune Upper

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Liscune Upper, from 882 m² to 128,694 m² (12.87 ha, 31.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Liscune 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.

• 31 Aug 2021Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling, garage, bio-treatment unit, percolation area and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 245 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211586

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 Liscune Upper.

Recorded monuments

• GA073-112 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a hillock in gently rolling grassland. Circular rath (D 30.5m) (GA073-112----), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The fosse and outer bank survive from S through W to NE. There is a stone-lined entrance causeway (Wth 3.2m) at S. Within NW sector of the interior is a rectangular hollow (L 10.5m), running E-W; possibly a souterrain (GA073-112001-). 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: 25 October 2022

• GA073-112001 Souterrain
  Description

  On a hillock in gently rolling grassland. Circular rath (D 30.5m) (GA073-112----), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The fosse and outer bank survive from S through W to NE. There is a stone-lined entrance causeway (Wth 3.2m) at S. Within NW sector of the interior is a rectangular hollow (L 10.5m), running E-W; possibly a souterrain (GA073-112001-). 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

• GA073-113 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In gently rolling grassland. Well-preserved circular rath (D 38m) (GA073-113----) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. A field wall overlies the outer bank. Gap at SE could be original. There is a rectangular hollow (L 13m, Wth 2.9m), long axis running N-S, in SW quadrant of the interior; possibly a souterrain (GA073-113001-). 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: 25 October 2022

• GA073-113001 Souterrain
  Description

  In gently rolling grassland. Well- preserved circular rath (D 38m) (GA073-113----) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. A field wall overlies the outer bank. Gap at SE could be original. There is a rectangular hollow (L 13m, Wth 2.9m), long axis running N-S, in SW quadrant of the interior; possibly a souterrain (GA073-113001). 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

• GA073-114 Enclosure
  Description

  In undulating farmland. A poorly preserved circular enclosure (D 26.2) defined from NW to E by a scarp (H. 1.5m), and from E through S to W by a low bank. 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 Liscune Upper.

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

Name

Liscune Upper · Lios Comhain Uachtarach

Area

1,177,823 m² (117.78 ha, 291.05 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymacward, and its townlands

Barony

Kilconnell

Electoral division

Kilconnell, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilconnell electoral division: 658 people in 225 households; 91% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagh, Callow, Gortyroyan East, Gortyroyan West, Hillswood, Liscune Lower, Loughaclerybeg, Moneyveen, Whitepark

Placenames

Liscune 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.