Lisheenaclara
Townland in the civil parish of Kilteskill, barony of Loughrea, Co. Galway; in Irish Lisín an Chláraigh
- Area
- 33.5 ha
- 83 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 12,531 m² (1.25 ha, 3.1 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisheenaclara, from 1,359 m² to 47,518 m² (4.75 ha, 11.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 Lisheenaclara 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
2 Jun 2026Conditional
for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit, percolation area and all site associated services
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660880
17 Nov 2020Conditional
for the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage and on-site treatment system, along with all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 213 msq [h] & 60 msq [g].
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201725
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
- Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA 004168
Recorded monuments
- GA115-047 Children's burial ground
Description
Within the S sector of the interior of a cashel (GA115-052----). This children's burial ground consists of an unenclosed rectangular area (16m x 3m) within which a number of small plain set but haphazardly arranged headstones are visible running on a N-S alignment. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 26 March 2020
- GA115-052 Ringfort - cashel
Description
On the S-facing slope of a prominent hillock. Very poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 34m) defined by a low grassed-over drystone wall from SE to SW; a gentle scarp forms the enclosing element from SW to NE while a steeper natural scarp defines the E limits. Quarrying has occurred at NE. A children's burial ground (GA115-047----) lies in the S half of the interior. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 15 January 2018
Architectural heritage
- Lisheenaclara Bridge, bridge, 1740–1780 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch limestone road bridge over tributary of Duniry River, built c.1760. Elliptical arch having cut-stone voussoirs. Snecked cut-stone walls and parapets with tooled copings. Tooled string course. Walls terminating in square-profile pier abutments. Recent render repairs to east approach wall. Rubble revetment wall to river bank, to either side of bridge.
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 moderately high, 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 Lisheenaclara.
- 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 Lisheenaclara with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Lisheenaclara · Lisín an Chláraigh
- Area
- 334,505 m² (33.45 ha, 82.66 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilteskill, and its townlands
- Barony
- Loughrea
- Electoral division
- Kilteskill, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilteskill electoral division: 393 people in 131 households; 91% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyknock, Boleycurheen, Commons, Srahaunananta
- Placenames
- Lisheenaclara 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.