Lisheenanoran

543 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisheenanoran, from 10 m² to 172,817 m² (17.28 ha, 42.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 50 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 Lisheenanoran 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.

• 16 Jan 2026Conditional

  to erect dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter and all associated services (previously approved under planning reg. ref. no. 24/61596)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660038

• 23 Jun 2025Conditional

  for the provision of a modular home, as a granny flat, to the rear of the existing dwelling. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 68 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560823

• 25 Nov 2024Conditional

  to erect dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 208.00 sqm(house), 59.40 sqm(garage)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2461596

• 8 Aug 2023Conditional

  to erect dwellinghouse, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter & all associated services. Gross floor area of proposed works: 251 sqm (dwellinghouse) & 37.50 sqm (domestic garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360921

• 22 Mar 2021Unconditional

  to construct slatted shed, dungstead and demolish old sheds. Gross floor space of proposed works; shed 218 sqm, dungstead 36 sqm, demolition 59 sqm

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 21422

• 6 Apr 2020Conditional

  shall consist of the construction of a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary treatment system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works; 243.29sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20437

• 6 Mar 2018Conditional

  for construction of a serviced dwelling with an effluent treatment system and a garages/shed. Gross floor space of proposed works 327 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18245

• 4 Sept 2017Conditional

  for the construction of a serviced dwelling with an effluent treatment system and a garage/shed. Gross floor space of proposed works 295sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171315

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: Lough Corrib SAC 000297
• Special Protection Area: Lough Corrib SPA 004042
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Corrib 000297

Recorded monuments

• GA069-028 Enclosure
  Description

  On SW-facing slope. Marked on OS Fair Plan as a hachured circle and labelled 'Fort' but not marked on OS 6-inch maps. No visible surface trace survives; the area has been recently forested. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, having glazed late twentieth-century porch to front, lean-to addition to rear and recent two-storey addition to west. Pitched thatched roof with raised ridge, and rendered chimneystack. Painted roughcast walls with parallel raised quoins and smooth raised skirting. Square-headed replacement timber windows with block-and-start-style render surrounds. Garden to front bounded by low rubble limestone wall with square-plan piers.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, having attic, and two pitched-roofed additions parallel to rear, one formerly outbuilding. Pitched thatched roof with slightly raised scolloped ridge, rendered chimneystack and rendered copings. Whitewashed walls with painted parallel strip at ends of front façade. Square-headed openings with painted render surrounds and replacement fittings. Small garden to front bounded by low rendered wall and yard to rear.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, having windbreak entrance under projection of main roof, and flat-roofed single-storey addition to length of rear elevation. Pitched reed thatched roof with raised scolloped ridge, and rendeed chimneystack. Whitewashed walls with skirting to front. Square-headed openings with replacement timber frames and glazed timber door. House fronted by small garden with low wall and wrought-iron pedestrian gate. Yard to rear.

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; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lisheenanoran.

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

Name

Lisheenanoran · Lisín an Óráin

Area

2,778,342 m² (277.83 ha, 686.54 acres)

Civil parish

Annaghdown, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Annaghdown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Annaghdown electoral division: 1,978 people in 678 households; 86% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Addergoole, Barranny, Cloonboo, Cloonleenaun, Coteenty, Curraghmore, Woodpark

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Lisheenanoran 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.