Lisduff

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisduff, from 75 m² to 132,016 m² (13.2 ha, 32.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Lisduff 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.

• 10 Jun 2021Conditional

  [a] Construction of a new dwelling [b] Construction of a domestic garage / store [c] Wastewater treatment system with percolation area [d] new site entrance and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 281 SQM

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211031

• 27 Aug 2020Conditional

  for a] demolition of existing dwelling and outbuilding b] construction of a replacement dwelling c] decommission existing septic tank system and install a wastewater treatment system with percolation area d] New site entrance and e] all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 203.00 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 86 sqm [house] 49.29 sqm [outbuilding]

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201203

• 18 Dec 2018Refused

  for the following development: (a) Construction of a new dwelling (b) Construction of a domestic shed-part store/part stables (c) Wastewater treatment system with percolation area (d) New site entrance and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 225 sqm (Dwelling), 129.6 sqm (Shed/Stable)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181829

• 10 Aug 2017Conditional

  for the following development: (a) Construction of a new dwelling: (b) Construction of a domestic garage/store (c) Treatment system with percolation area: (d) New site entrance and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works Dwelling 298sqm, Garage 40sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171205

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 Lisduff.

Recorded monuments

• GA107-129 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In gently undulating pastureland overlooking marshland to the NW. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m). On inspection in April 1984 only the outline of this monument was barely discernible above ground level. According to local information, it was a ‘fort’ and it was levelled c. 1979 during land-improvement works. Its outline is clearly visible on the OSi aerial photographs (Google maps). Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 15 April 2019

• GA107-130 Quarry
  Description

  This record relates to a disused gravel pit. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 16 July 2015

• GA107-131 Quarry
  Description

  This is a disused gravel pit. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 16 July 2015

• GA107-132 Quarry
  Description

  On a ridge in pastureland. A hachured feature marked on the 1945 revision of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a disused quarry. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 11 August 2014

• GA107-133 Mill - unclassified
  Description

  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.

• GA107-134 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a hummock in grassland. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 33m). On inspection in April 1984 no visible surface trace was visible. According to local information, it was known as a 'fort' and was levelled c. 1981 during land-improvement works. However, its outline it clearly visible on OSi aerial photographs (Google maps). Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 15 April 2019

Architectural heritage

• Lisduff House, house, 1880–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-storey house, built c.1900, having three-bay ground floor and two-bay first floor, gabled porch to front (south) elevation, and recent extension to rear. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack to midle of ridge, carved timber eaves brackets to front elevation, and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with render surrounds and sills, having timber sliding sash windows, east gable having tripartite one-over-one pane windows with rounded corners to upper sashes, and other elevations having two-over-two pane windows. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door, and sidelights.

• Lisduff Mill, mill (water), 1770–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-storey mill, dated 1855, having six-bay ground floor, four-bay first floor and three-bay upper floors, windows of latter being widely spaced. Incorporates fabric of earlier mill structure of c.1790, having full-height return to rear (north) elevation, and recent single-storey lean-to extension to east. Now disused and derelict. Hipped slate roof with red brick chimneystack, and brick eaves course. Rubble stone walls with cut limestone date plaque to front elevation. Square-headed window openings with cut limestone sills and remains of two-over-two pane and eight-over-eight pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door openings, those to front elevation having cut limestone voussoirs and fluted limestone keystones, with timber battened doors. Outbuilding having pitched corrugated-iron roof and rendered walls. Mill pond to rear, mill stream to south-west.

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 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 Lisduff.

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

Name

Lisduff · An Lios Dubh

Area

1,067,868 m² (106.79 ha, 263.88 acres)

Civil parish

Tynagh, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Moat, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Moat electoral division: 153 people in 55 households; 87% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 24% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boleynaminna, Carhoon, Coolbaun West, Garraunnameetagh, Kilnamullaun, Rahyconor, Skehanagh

Placenames

Lisduff 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.