Liskelly

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Liskelly, from 737 m² to 602,955 m² (60.3 ha, 148.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Liskelly 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.

• 18 Jun 2026Conditional

  for the construction of a single storey extension to an existing shed and all associated external site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 26147

• 22 Dec 2022Conditional

  to demolish existing sub-standard derelict house & erect new dwellinghouse, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area & all associated site works & services. Gross floor space of proposed works 319.00sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261317

• 29 Aug 2018Conditional

  for conversion of existing farm building into a domestic residence with works comprising the following: (a) re-roofing of existing building (b) removal and re-flooring existing first floor and existing ground floor, and new internal insulated stud work on external walls (c) removal of existing internal walls and replacement with structural walls (d) insertion of new opes to existing structure (e) removal of single-storey lean-to extension (f) new wastewater treatment system and percolation area, and (g) associated ancillary works. This building is a protected structure (RPS 3265). Gross floor space of proposed works 128 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition 4 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181222

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Liskelly.

Recorded monuments

• GA099-133 Enclosure
  Description

  On W-facing slope of a hill, 100m WNW of Liskelly House. Well-preserved almost circular platform (E-W 44.7m, SSE-NNW 44m) up to 2.75m in height at SW. Its perimeter is defined by faint intermittent traces of an earthen bank and by a ring of mature trees. No trace of an original entrance is visible. The grass-covered interior is generally flat save for some stone foundations in NE quadrant. An earthwork (GA099-136----) lies 50m to W. 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

• GA099-134 Enclosure
  Description

  On a hill summit in undulating farmland. Poorly preserved subcircular enclosure (N-S 32m, E-W 30m) defined by a low earthen bank best preserved at N. 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

• GA099-135 Enclosure
  Description

  On a hill summit in farmland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 35m). No visible surface trace survives. 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

• GA099-136 Earthwork
  Description

  Some 50m W of an enclosure (GA099-133----). Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular tree-planted enclosure (D c. 30m). No visible surface trace survives. 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

• GA099-137 House - indeterminate date
  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

• Liskelly House, house, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan three-bay two-storey house, built c.1780. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks with ceramic chimneypots. Roughcast rendered walls with cut limestone plinth course. Square-headed window openings with cut limestone sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Some blind window openings to north elevation. Elliptical-headed recessed door opening, with timber panelled door with spoked coloured glass fanlight and sidelights, with stall risers and flanked by panelled timber pilasters. Farmyard to west, having multiple-bay two-storey outbuildings to east and west and south ranges, and boundary wall with recent gate to north boundary. Pitched slate and corrugated-iron roofs, partly rendered rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings. Site entrance to north.

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

At the centre of the townland of Liskelly, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Liskelly with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Liskelly · Lios Ceallaigh

Area

829,774 m² (82.98 ha, 205.04 acres)

Civil parish

Clontuskert, and its townlands

Barony

Clonmacnowen

Electoral division

Kellysgrove, the unit of the census

Census 2022

386 people lived in 129 households in the Kellysgrove electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Attibrassil, Ballagh West, Gortmore, Kilnahown, Lisheennavannoge (Blake), Lisheennavannoge (Clancarty), Tristaun

Placenames

Liskelly 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.