Lismoes
Townland in the civil parish of Killoscobe, barony of Tiaquin, Co. Galway; in Irish Lios Muais
- Area
- 76.6 ha
- 189 acres
- Land parcels
- 33
- registered freehold, median 2,237 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lismoes, from 195 m² to 246,801 m² (24.68 ha, 60.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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 Lismoes 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
2 Jan 2026Conditional
for a No.1 detached house and No.1 detached garage with associated landscaping, proposed wastewater treatment system, pedestrian and vehicular access from the public road; two story house, comprising of No. 5 bedrooms, study, kitchen, living, dining and ancillary spaces; 1 story garage, comprising of storage, office and WC
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660002
20 Aug 2025Refused
for a No.1 detached house and No.1 detached garage with associated landscaping, proposed wastewater treatment system, pedestrian and vehicular access from the public road; two story house, comprising of No. 5 bedrooms, study, kitchen, living, dining and ancillary spaces; Garage; 1 story garage, comprising of storage, office and WC
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561155
25 Jan 2022N/a
to construct proprietary effluent treatment system, percolation area and complete site works to previously approved planning application reference number 03-5736
Permission · Galway County Council, 2262
20 Dec 2018Conditional
to construct two agricultural sheds and retain the existing stoned out yard and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 851 sqm
Permission · Galway County Council, 181846
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 Lismoes.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lismoes.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lismoes.
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 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 Lismoes.
- 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 Lismoes with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Lismoes · Lios Muais
- Area
- 766,438 m² (76.64 ha, 189.39 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killoscobe, 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
- Ballyara, Fairhill, Menlough Commons, Menlough Eighter, Menlough Oughter, Moneen
- Placenames
- Lismoes 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.