Lissoughter

48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lissoughter, from 214 m² to 2,344,309 m² (234.43 ha, 579.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Lissoughter 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.

• 15 Dec 2025Conditional

  for a dwelling house, garage & private wastewater treatment system with all associated works & ancillary services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561862

• 13 Jul 2023Conditional

  for the development including; material alterations to an existing single storey Health Centre, including outhouse & water storage tank area, & change of use from Health Centre to an ambulance base serving the wider Connemara area. The refurbishment works will include fabric & energy upgrades to the building. They will further include minor localised internal amendments to the floor plan to provide for the accommodation requirements of the ambulance base. This accommodation will include the provision of an office/radio room, kitchenette, universally accessible WC, locker/changing room, seating area & ancillary storage facilities. Associated site works will also include an upgrade to the on-site wastewater treatment plant with the inclusion of a tertiary treatment system & polishing filter, the provision of a single storey ancillary building, upgrades to the existing foul water & stormwater colection systems. Other associated - site works will include 2 number bays for ambulance parking, 2 number car parking spaces & footpaths, ramps & steps to serve the requirements of the building, including universal accessibility. The site is adjacent to the the Maumturk Mountains SAC & the Maumturk Mountains NHA. It is further adiacent to Connemara Bog Complex SAC/SPA & the Twelve Bens/Garraun Complex SAC. A Natura Impact Statement will be provided with the application

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23285

• 15 May 2023Conditional

  of refurbishment and upgrading works [including (where necessary) replacement of existing poles along the existing overhead electricity line, minor ground works e.g. replacement or installation of stays, and maintenance or improvement works]; and all associated ancillary works including the provision of temporary accessways. Replacement poles will be constructed at, or immediately adjacent to, the existing structures that they will replace. Replacement poles will have a maximum height of 12m above ground; and be similar in appearance to existing poles. Planning permission is sought for a 10 year period. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360509

• 25 Oct 2019Conditional

  for development of site at Eir Exchange, Lissoughter, Recess. The development will consist of the replacement of an existing telecommunications support structure (overall structure height of 18 meters), together with adjacent equipment cabinet, previously granted under planning reference no. 13/436, with a proposed new lattice tower structure (overall structure height of 22 metres) carrying the telecommunications equipment transferred from the existing structure and the addition of new telecommunications antennas, dishes and associated equipment, together with ground equipment cabinets, new wall and fencing

  Permission · Galway County Council, 191669

• 22 Mar 2018Refused

  for the demolition of existing dwelling house, construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage and a new effluent treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed works 238.8 sqm. Gross floor space of demolition 66.3 sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 18338

• 25 Jan 2017N/a

  for construction a new dwelling house, domestic garage, sewage treatment system and polishing filter as well as all ancillary site works. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 142 sqm. (House) + 40 sqm. (Garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 1755

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Connemara Bog Complex SAC 002034
• Special Area of Conservation: The Twelve Bens/Garraun Complex SAC 002031
• Special Area of Conservation: Maumturk Mountains SAC 002008
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Connemara Bog Complex 002034
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: The Twelve Bens/Garraun Complex 002031
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Maumturk Mountains 002008

Recorded monuments

• GA037-010 Water mill - unclassified
  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.

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1890–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Railway bridge, built c.1895, over disused galway to Clifden railway line. Single segmental arch having rock-faced voussoirs, rubble walling to spandrels and parapets, moulded string course between arch and parapets, and margined rock-faced coping stones to parapets. Bridge gives access over former railway line to Lissoughter Lodge.

• Lissoughter Lodge, house, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey house, built c.1880, having three-bay side elevations, flat-roofed porch to front, and multiple-bay single-storey L-plan addition to rear. Hipped slate roof with rendered eaves course and rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls with rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings having painted sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to end bays of front elevation, margined one-over-one pane windows to sides of porch, and timber casement windows elsewhere. Set in own grounds with terrace to west of house having brick retaining wall and flight of limestone steps with plinth walls having piers with limestone caps leading down to gardens to west. Site accessed through wrought-iron farm gate set between brick piers having limestone caps, at south end of bridge over disused railway line, with similar gates to road at north-west.

• Bridge, 1890–1895 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-span cast-iron girder railway bridge, dated 1893, over Abhainn Bhéal na Cora [Bealnacarra River]. Limestone block piers with limestone and recent concrete block copings supporting riveted wrought and cast-iron girder bridge with riveted parapet wall having maker's mark to girder in south elevation. Recent wrought-iron railing and gates to west elevation. Rubble-stone and earth abutments to east and west.

• Recess House, railway station, 1890–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached railway station house, built 1895, comprising T-plan two-storey stationmaster's house having two-bay front elevation and three-bay trackside elevation, with five-bay single-storey waiting room to east and multiple-bay single-storey lean-to addition to west. Canted-bay to front of stationmaster's house with windows to both floors. Now used as private house. Pitched pantile roofs with decorative terracotta ridge tiles to station house and waiting room with lead cladding to raised copings to gables, rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron and replacement uPVC rainwater goods with cast-iron ventilation pipes having decorative caps. Sheet metal and felt coverings to flat roofed additions. Timber bargeboards to gables with exposed king-post truss to canted bay. Pebbledashed walls with painted rendered plinth. Camber-headed window openings having rendered architraves, concrete sills and recent external timber shutters. Two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to front and rear elevations, two-pane timber casement windows to rear, and four-by-four timber casement windows to west elevation. Square headed window openings with concrete sills having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to rear and west elevations of flat-roofed addition to west elevation, two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to front elevation of additional canted-bay window and to west elevation of addition, two-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to front elevation, twelve-pane timber casement windows to conservatory. Oculus to east elevation with timber louver. Camber-headed door opening with rendered architrave, timber glazed door with bipartite overlight to rear elevation, battened timber door with overlight to east elevation. Square-headed door openings with rendered architraves, double-leafed timber glazed doors and battened timber door with overlight to front elevation (to interior of additional conservatory), louvered and panelled door to west elevation. Single-stage water tower to west of station house having shallow pitched replacement roof, coursed stone block walls with red-brick quoins, round-headed door to front and window openings to sides, with red-brick block-and-start surrounds and concrete sills, internal iron railing to north elevation. Rubble-stone boundary walls to site with rubble-stone piers and stone block capping to east marking railway line. Rubble-stone boundary walls to north with rubble-stone piers with rusticated limestone capping and wrought-iron gates.

• Séipéal Naomh Padraig [Saint Patrick's Catholic Church], church/chapel, 1920–1925 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Roman Catholic Church, built 1922, comprising of five-bay double-height nave with bowed and square break front side chapels to side elevations, bowed corner to north-west, single-bay double-height chancel to east elevation, double-height porch to west elevation with two-stage tower to south elevation and single-storey sacristy to north elevations of nave and chancel with extension to east elevation housing boiler room. Sheet metal and felt flat roofs to nave, chancel, chapels and sacristy with rendered lean-to roofs to side-chapels of north elevation. Painted roughcast rendered walls with rendered plinth, smooth rendered walls to east elevation of extension, raised render arcaded corbels to eaves of nave, chancel and side chapels and stepped rendered buttresses to all elevations. Raised round-headed render panels to each bay surrounding windows. Bowed wall to east elevation of chancel with render string course. Recessed rounded headed window openings with render sills with ventilation slats having lead-lined stained-glass windows to north and south elevations of nave, chancel, bell tower, side chapels, sacristy and front elevation of sacristy. Tripartite lead-lined stained-glass window with stained-glass over light to east elevation of chancel. Oculus window openings with stained-glass windows surmounting openings to side elevations of nave. Square headed window opening having stained-glass windows to north-west elevation of bowed corner. Rose windows to west elevation of porch having limestone curvilinear tracery with stained-glass. Round headed door openings with rendered architrave, recessed doorcase, concrete steps and double-leaf battened timber door with stained-glass overlight to south elevation of tower and rendered architrave, recessed doorcase, concrete ramp with battened timber door to front elevation of sacristy. Square headed door opening to north elevation of extension having battened timber with galvanised metal louvre overlight. Concrete capping to two-stage tower having painted roughcast rendered walls and plinth. Three round-headed arches to second stage with render hood mouldings extending as string course to south, east and west elevations. Recessed round-headed niches to east and west elevations having rendered architrave and rendered cross. Six-bay single-storey house to north-east of chapel with hipped artificial slate roof. Grotto containing Marian statue located to the south-east of chapel. Painted rendered boundary walls and piers with rendered capping.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Lissoughter · Lios Uachtair

Area

5,614,764 m² (561.48 ha, 1,387.44 acres)

Civil parish

Moyrus, and its townlands

Barony

Ballynahinch

Electoral division

Moyrus, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Moyrus electoral division: 334 people in 139 households; 82% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 32% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caher, Cappaghoosh, Cloonnacartan, Derryadd East, Garroman, Lehanagh North, Tawnaghmore

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Lissoughter 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.