Lisheeneynaun
Townland in the civil parish of Ardrahan, barony of Loughrea, Co. Galway; in Irish An Lisín
- Area
- 47 ha
- 116 acres
- Land parcels
- 25
- registered freehold, median 4,377 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisheeneynaun, from 17 m² to 185,935 m² (18.59 ha, 45.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Lisheeneynaun 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
10 Jul 2026Conditional
for the change of plans for an extension to an existing dwelling including elevation alterations to those previously approved under pl. ref. no. 25/60934 & for all ancillary services & site works
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661168
11 Jul 2025Conditional
for the construction of a rear and side extension to an existing dwelling, including elevation alterations and for all ancillary services and site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 97.00 sqm(extension)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560934
23 Jul 2021Refused
for Retention & Completion of (A) Existing Raft foundations for a dwelling house & Domestic Garage, and Sewage treatment system granted under planning reference No. 04/3565 and (B) Permission for minor alterations to Dwelling house Plan & Elevations as granted Under Planning Reference No. 04/3565 and (C) Revised site boundaries and (D) all associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works; House 152.4 sqm; Garage 35.5 sqm.
Retention · Galway County Council, 211361
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
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lisheeneynaun.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lisheeneynaun.
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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_902 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Lisheeneynaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Lisheeneynaun · An Lisín
- Area
- 469,582 m² (46.96 ha, 116.04 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ardrahan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Loughrea
- Electoral division
- Castleboy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Castleboy electoral division: 571 people in 204 households; 92% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballybackagh, Castleboy, Castledaly, Cloghaun, Cregganore, Scalp
- Placenames
- Lisheeneynaun 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.