Lisloughlin

53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisloughlin, from 100 m² to 265,085 m² (26.51 ha, 65.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 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 Lisloughlin 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.

• 9 Jul 2018Conditional

  1) of existing agricultural sheds, silage pits and dungstead, and 2) construction of a grain storage shed and calving shed and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 1,007sqm, Gross floor space of work to be retained 1,377sqm.

  Retention · Galway County Council, 18952

• 9 Oct 2017Conditional

  to construct a new farm entrance and associated site works.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 171459

• 17 Jan 2017Conditional

  for construction of a two storey dwelling & garage and sheds to side of building, to include septic tank, landscaping boundary treatment and ancillary works all on site. Gross floor space of proposed works: 288sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 1721

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 Lisloughlin.

Recorded monuments

• GA060-158 Enclosure
  Description

  On the summit of a rise. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1932) as a roughly circular enclosure (D c. 40m). 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

• GA060-159 Enclosure
  Description

  On a low hillock. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1932) 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

• GA060-160 Enclosure
  Description

  On a low ridge. A subcircular enclosure (N-S 43m, E-W 39m) consisting of a low central platform defined by a scarp, with faint traces of an external fosse. 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

• GA060-161 Designed landscape - folly
  Description

  On a prominent hilltop. Known locally as 'The Three Fingers', it consists of an 19th-C ornamental gateway (Wth 1.3m) with a shouldered arch set into a field wall. Built of well-dressed limestone and mortared rubble, it is surmounted by three narrow pillars of unequal height. 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

• GA073-124 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In gently rolling grassland. Circular rath (D 39.4m), in fair condition, defined by a degraded bank. Field walls cut the monument at W, NNE and SE. 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

• Scoil Náisiúnta Naoimh Ruadháin, school, 1935–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey school house, dated 1936, now disused. Pitched natural slate roof with steel roof vent to middle of ridge, brick chimneybreast to central rear bay, limestone copings to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls with projecting limestone plinth. Square-headed six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to front, with tooled limestone sills, openings to rear elevation blocked up with cement block and corrugated plastic. Square-headed timber sheeted door to north end of front elevation, having carved stone plaque above reading 'Scoil Naomh Ruadháin, Scoil Náisiúnta 1936'. Double-leaf steel door to east of front elevation, possible covering smaller doorway. Set back from road, gardens to rear, dwelling and yard to north separated from schoolhouse by random rubble limestone boundary wall with hedge behind.

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 10 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Lisloughlin · Lios Maoileachlainn

Area

2,239,385 m² (223.94 ha, 553.36 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymacward, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Mounthazel, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Mounthazel electoral division: 544 people in 194 households; 91% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Alloon Upper, Esker, Hampstead, Killaghaun, Killamude East, Moneen

Placenames

Lisloughlin 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.