Liscullane
Liscullane is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcaragh, barony of Clanmaurice, Co. Kerry. Its name in Irish is Lios Coileáin.
- Area
- 239.3 ha
- 591 acres
- Land parcels
- 41
- registered freehold, median 6,235 m² (0.62 ha, 1.54 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Liscullane, from 292 m² to 314,480 m² (31.45 ha, 77.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Liscullane 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
13 May 2025Refused
Permission to construct a new dwelling house, detached domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560401
20 Feb 2025Conditional
(1) DEMOLISH STORE AND LIVESTOCK HOUSE; (2) CONTRUCT A SLATTED HOUSE EXTENSION WITH ASSOCIATED UNDERGROUND SLURRY TANK, FEED THROUGH CATTLE CRUSH AND ANCILLARY CONCRETE, (3) DEMOLOSH CATTLE HOUSE AND YARD; (4) CONSTRUCT A SLATTED HOUSE WITH ASSOCIATED UNDER GROUND SLURRY TANK AND ANCILLARY CONCRETE YARD; (5) ERECT A CATTLE RATION FEED BIN, COMPLETE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORK
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2541
17 Jun 2024Conditional
TO BUILD A PRIVATE SINGLE STOREY DWELLING WITH ATTIC ACCOMMODATION SERVED WITH A MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT AND SAND POLISHING FILTER, GARAGE, AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 24249
15 Feb 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING SERVED BY A MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT AND SAND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL NECESSARY ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23149
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
Recorded monuments
- KE015-087 Ringfort - rath
Description
Internal diameter 25.2m N-S This sub-circular rath is situated in low-lying pastureland and the Limerick and Tralee railway track lies one field to the E. This site has been somewhat levelled from the NE through E to S and only survives as a raised area 1.2m high. For the rest, the enclosing earthen bank is 6m wide at the base and rises to an average of .8m above the surrounding land and .7m above the interior, which is at a higher level than the surrounding land. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 581. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013
- KE015-088 Ringfort - rath
Description
Liscullane/Lios Coileáin. This circular enclosure appears on the 1841-42 and 1916 OS maps. Though levelled it shows up quite clearly on the Air Corps aerial photographs (1968) as a soil mark. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 583. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013
- KE015-089 Enclosure
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.
- KE015-121 Ringfort - rath
Description
This site appears as a circular enclosure on the 1841-42 OS map. It is barely perceptible on the 1916 edition and a trackway runs through it in a NW-SE direction. No trace survives today. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 582. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013
- KE015-122 Ringfort - rath
Description
Internal diameter 51m NE-SW This circular univallate rath is enclosed by a fairly overgrown earth and stone bank. The enclosing bank to the W to SW has been later stone faced. The bank is c 7m wide at the base and rises to 1.1m externally and .65m internally. A c 5m wide gap is on the SE side and a gate leads into the interior on the NW side. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 584. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013
- KE015-126 Ringfort - rath
Description
This circular enclosure appears on the 1841-42 OS map but by the 1916 edition it is not as clearly marked. The Limerick and Tralee railway track runs immediately to the SE of this site. Though the site has been levelled, it showed up quite clearly on an aerial photograph taken in 1987. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 580. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Liscullane.
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 Liscullane, about 1 in 5 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 Liscullane.
- 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 Liscullane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Liscullane · Lios Coileáin
- Area
- 2,392,860 m² (239.29 ha, 591.29 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcaragh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmaurice
- Electoral division
- Lixnaw, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,134 people lived in 424 households in the Lixnaw electoral division. 67% of households owned their home. 56% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghacoora, Ballynageragh, Cloonsillagh, Cunnagare, Deerpark, Garrynagore, Gortadrislig, Irrabeg
- Placenames
- Liscullane 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.