Lisgub West
Townland in the civil parish of Ballymacward, barony of Tiaquin, Co. Galway; in Irish Lios Gioba Thiar
- Area
- 45.5 ha
- 112 acres
- Land parcels
- 12
- registered freehold, median 39,259 m² (3.93 ha, 9.7 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisgub West, from 3,076 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres) to 80,967 m² (8.1 ha, 20.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Lisgub West 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
14 May 2019Conditional
to construct a new dwelling house, domestic / garage fuel store with wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 271.18 Sqm (House - 211.68 sqm, Garage - 59.50 sqm)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19716
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Lisgub West.
Recorded monuments
- GA060-152 Quarry
Description
In gently undulating pastureland. A hachured feature marked on the 1932 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1983 to be a a disused quarry with a pond at its base. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 31 March 2015
- GA073-167 Enclosure
Description
In pastureland. The cropmark of this subcircular enclosure (c. 84m E-W; c. 60m N-S) is visible on Google Earth satellite imagery (© Google Earth, imagery dated March 2018). A modern field boundary runs across it from NNW to SSE. Another field boundary, running roughly N-S, extends off this and cuts across the enclosing element at approximately NNW. Identified and reported to the Survey by Jean-Charles Caillère. The following image has been uploaded: GA073-167----_01.jpg Google Earth, imagery dated 20 March 2018. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 12 May 2021
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lisgub 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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- 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 Lisgub West.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Lisgub West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Lisgub West · Lios Gioba Thiar
- Area
- 455,202 m² (45.52 ha, 112.48 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballymacward, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tiaquin
- Electoral division
- Annagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Annagh electoral division: 383 people in 136 households; 95% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Alloon Lower, Esker, Lisgub (Ward), Lisgub East
- Placenames
- Lisgub West 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.