Lisheenakeeran
Townland in the civil parish of Rahoon, barony of Galway, Co. Galway; in Irish Lisín an Chaoráin
- Area
- 26 ha
- 64 acres
- Land parcels
- 32
- registered freehold, median 3,987 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisheenakeeran, from 714 m² to 67,347 m² (6.73 ha, 16.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Lisheenakeeran 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
17 Aug 2023Conditional
for a one storey extension to existing one storey farmhouse with removal of substandard small annex, new paved parking area, new treatment system, percolation area & all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23330
6 Jun 2023Conditional
of dwelling house, garage/sheds as constructed on revised site boundaries & permission to replace existing septic tank with a new wastewater treatment system with all associated works
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360607
22 Apr 2022Conditional
to construct a serviced dwelling house and domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works 326.30 sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260386
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 Lisheenakeeran.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lisheenakeeran.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lisheenakeeran.
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 5 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 Lisheenakeeran.
- 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 Lisheenakeeran with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Lisheenakeeran · Lisín an Chaoráin
- Area
- 259,818 m² (25.98 ha, 64.2 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rahoon, and its townlands
- Barony
- Galway
- Electoral division
- Barna, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Barna electoral division: 3,866 people in 1,287 households; 84% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Lisheenakeeran 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.