Lissapharson
Lissapharson is a townland in the civil parish of Kiltormer, barony of Longford, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Lios an Phearsúin.
- Area
- 34.1 ha
- 84 acres
- Land parcels
- 2
- registered freehold, median 169,213 m² (16.92 ha, 41.81 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lissapharson, from 10,929 m² (1.09 ha, 2.7 acres) to 327,498 m² (32.75 ha, 80.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 3 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Lissapharson 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
19 Dec 2025Conditional
for several minor amendments to the previously consented development under Planning Reference 2361049. The amendments comprise the following; re alignment of the main entrance and access gate; re alignment and widening of internal access tracks; alteration of the boundary fence; removal of the consented 38kV substation in Field 22; combined central inverters and MV transformers are replaced by separate string inverters and central MV transformers; reduction in the size of related hardstanding areas; updated table layout including a reduction in PV table numbers from 3209 to 3120; reduction of the of new overhead line separation areas arising from the removal of a section of the 110 kV overhead line; inclusion of an additional badger sett buffer and amendment of condition 3a to extend the operational lifetime of the solar farm from 35 years to 40 years. An updated Natura Impact Statement has been submitted with this application. A separate application to obtain permission for a 110kV grid connection and 110kV substation to facilitate the export of power from the solar farm, will be submitted to An Coimisiún Pleanála. This development is covered by the provisions of the Renewable Energy Directive III (Directive (EU) 2023/2413) and it is important to note that the planning application may be subject to section 34D of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended. When a notice issues in accordance with section 34D(b), the provisions of article 26A of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 to 2025 shall apply
Permission · Galway County Council, 2561903
5 Sept 2023Conditional
for the development that will consist of a planning permission for a period of 10 years to construct & complete a Solar PV Energy development with a total site area of circa 81.9 hectares, to include, solar PV panels ground mounted on support structures, electrical transformer & inverter station modules, a substation, temporary construction compounds, internal access tracks, watercourse crossing infrastructure, security fencing, electrical cabling & ducting, interconnection cabling, CCTV & other ancillary infrastructure, drainage, additional landscaping & habitat enhancement as required & associated site development works. The solar farm would be operational for 35 years. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted with this application
Permission · Galway County Council, 2361049
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 Lissapharson.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lissapharson.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lissapharson.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Lissapharson, about 1 in 10 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lissapharson.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Lissapharson with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Lissapharson · Lios an Phearsúin
- Area
- 340,891 m² (34.09 ha, 84.24 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kiltormer, and its townlands
- Barony
- Longford
- Electoral division
- Laurencetown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 397 people lived in 141 households in the Laurencetown electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballydonagh, Belview or Lissareaghaun, Skenageehy
- Placenames
- Lissapharson 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.