Lisheen

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisheen, from 13,906 m² (1.39 ha, 3.44 acres) to 1,658,684 m² (165.87 ha, 409.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 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 Lisheen 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Lisheen in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Termon Lough SAC 001321
• Special Area of Conservation: East Burren Complex SAC 001926
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: East Burren Complex 001926

Recorded monuments

• GA128-062 House - 18th/19th century
  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.

• GA128-095 Enclosure
  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.

Architectural heritage

• Lisheen House, country house, 1790–1795 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house over raised basement, dated 1792, having three-storey elevation to rear, with two-storey extension to rear. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, recent projecting chimneystack to north-east side elevation, and-cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls having tooled limestone plinth course to front (south-east) elevation, with squared limestone walls to half-basement to front. Round-headed door opening to front with carved limestone surround having moulded lintel and archivolt, timber panelled door and cobweb fanlight. Tooled limestone steps to entrance. Square-headed opening to rear elevation with tooled limestone block-and-start surround, keystone engraved with date 1837, and timber battened door, with limestone threshold. Square-headed openings throughout having tooled limestone sills, and timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to ground floor, six-over-three to first floor and basement, latter with dressed voussoirs, and one double window to rear. Replacement uPVC windows to rear return. Three-bay two-storey outbuilding to south-west, having pitched slate roof with render copings, stone eaves course and some cast-iron rainwater goods, roughly-dressed limestone walls, elliptical carriage arches to front and rear elevations having tooled limestone voussoirs, some with double-leaf timber battened door, and with square-headed openings to first floor with tooled limestone sills and voussoirs, and timber louvred vents. Outbuildings to west comprising seven-bay two-storey outbuilding, dated 1816, and having five-bay front elevation lacking some openings to first floor, with pitched slate roof having tooled stone eaves course, whitewashed roughcast rendered walls, square-headed doorways with raised block-and-start surrounds, one with inscribed date, and timber battened doors, and square-headed timber-louvered windows with limestone sills. Ten-bay single-storey outbuilding at right angles to two-storey block, having pitched slate roof with render eaves course, whitewashed roughcast rendered walls, with one elliptical carriage arch to front elevation, and square-headed door and timber louvered windows.

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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_690 (ZIP).

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

Name

Lisheen · An Lisín

Area

1,672,581 m² (167.26 ha, 413.3 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacduagh, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Beagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Beagh electoral division: 789 people in 274 households; 92% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyboy, Carhoon, Cloonnafunshin, Knockauncoura, Sheeaun, Termon

Placenames

Lisheen 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.