Lissard

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lissard, from 277 m² to 125,170 m² (12.52 ha, 30.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Lissard 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Lissard in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Lissard.

Recorded monuments

• GA073-081001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level grassland in NE part of a field system (GA073-081002-). Well-preserved circular rath (D 43m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. There is a causewayed entrance (Wth 1.8m) at NE, stone-faced along SE side. A ringfort (GA073-081003-) lies 175m to SW. 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

• GA073-081003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In NE part of a field system (GA073-081002-). Well-preserved circular rath (D 28m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. There is an entrance causeway (Wth 2m) at E. A field wall cuts the monument at E and W. A ringfort (GA073-081001-) lies 175m to NE. 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

• GA073-125 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level grassland. Well-preserved almost circular ringfort (D 36m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. Traces of stone revetment are visible on parts of the inner bank, and numerous breaches in the banks appear modern. A ringfort (GA073-126----) lies c. 100m to S. 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 This monument was taken into Ownership under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 621.

• GA073-126 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level grassland. Well-preserved almost circular rath (D 34m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. A souterrain (GA073-126001-) is located in W half of the intenor. A CBG (GA073-127----) lies c. 180m to S. 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 This monument was taken into Ownership under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 621.

• GA073-126001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within W half of a ringfort (GA073-126----). A well-preserved drystone-built souterrain, roughly L-shaped in plan, consisting of two chambers linked by a creep. Access via opening a E end of 1st chamber (L 9m) which runs E-W. A creep at its NW end leads to 2nd chamber (L 4.4m) running NE-SW. 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 This monument was taken into Ownership under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 621.

• GA073-127 Children's burial ground
  Description

  In flat farmland, c. 180m S of ringfort (GA073-126----). Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1933) as a small circular enclosure (D c. 10m). All that survives is a poorly preserved unenclosed square are (L/Wth 10m) occupied by several alignments of small set limestone boulders indicating graves oriented N-S. A hawthorn tree is growing in the W half. 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). The following images have been uploaded: GA073-127----_01.jpg GA073-127----_02.jpg Updated by: Olive Alcock Date of revised upload: 31 July 2023

• GA073-128 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In flat farmland, immediately E of a road. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 30m). No visible surface trace survives: a ruined farmhouse occupies the site. 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

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lissard.

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 Lissard, 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 Lissard.

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

Name

Lissard · Lios Ard

Area

989,975 m² (99 ha, 244.63 acres)

Civil parish

Kilconnell, and its townlands

Barony

Kilconnell

Electoral division

Kilconnell, the unit of the census

Census 2022

658 people lived in 225 households in the Kilconnell electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barnavihall, Carrowmanagh, Cloonigny, Crummagh, Dundoogan, Ellagh

Placenames

Lissard 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.