Lisnagloos
Townland in the civil parish of Killora, barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway; in Irish Lios na gCluas
- Area
- 30.3 ha
- 75 acres
- Land parcels
- 24
- registered freehold, median 2,046 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisnagloos, from 74 m² to 124,385 m² (12.44 ha, 30.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Lisnagloos 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
31 May 2019Conditional
to construct a five bay single slatted cattle shed with enclosed feed passage. Gross floor space of proposed works: 228 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 307 sqm
Permission · Galway County Council, 19827
8 Jun 2017Conditional
for the construction of a proposed agricultural entrance to existing farmland
Permission · Galway County Council, 17818
10 Mar 2017Conditional
for a new garden shed and associated site works. Retention permission is sought for existing dwelling house plus wastewater treatment system and associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 28sqm, retention 276sqm
Permission · Galway County Council, 17325
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 Lisnagloos.
Recorded monuments
- GA104-178 Cairn - clearance cairn
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.
- GA104-179 Ringfort - cashel
Description
On a rise in level pastureland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 237, no. 39) as a circular ‘Stone fort’ (diam. c. 48.2m) defined by a double-faced drystone wall which had been levelled to its foundations. When inspected in December 1982 the monument has been extensively disturbed by quarrying. On a revisit in October 2001 no visible surface trace of it was evident. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 January 2018
- GA104-180 Barrow - ring-barrow
Description
On a prominent esker hillock in pastureland. This circular ring-barrow (diam. 10.2m) is defined by a central mound (diam. 3.2m; H 0.2-0.6m) encircled by a fosse and external bank. No visible surface trace of the bank survives from S through W to N. McCaffrey (1952, 27, 237, no. 39a; 1955, 224), noted ‘the possible remains of a smaller tumulus [see GA104-180001-] of the same type contiguous to, if not conjoined to’ the monument ‘on its western side’. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 14 August 2019
- GA104-180001 Barrow - ring-barrow
Description
On a prominent esker hillock in pastureland. Described by McCaffrey (1952, 27, 237, no. 39a; 1955, 224) as ‘the possible remains of a smaller tumulus of the same type contiguous to, if not conjoined to’ the ring-barrow (see GA104-108----) ‘on its western side’. It is defined by a low roughly circular rise (diam. 4m; H 0.15m). Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 14 August 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lisnagloos.
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 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 Lisnagloos.
- 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
- Lisnagloos, Craughwell5 sales
The townland
- Name
- Lisnagloos · Lios na gCluas
- Area
- 303,345 m² (30.33 ha, 74.96 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killora, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dunkellin
- Electoral division
- Craughwell, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Craughwell electoral division: 2,092 people in 690 households; 84% of households own their home; 55% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballylin East, Ballymanagh, Carnanthomas, Colesgrove, Kilquain
- Placenames
- Lisnagloos 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.