Lissireen

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lissireen, from 307 m² to 394,099 m² (39.41 ha, 97.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Lissireen 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.

• 26 Sept 2025N/a

  REDIII: The development will consist of: a 10-year permission for the development of a solar farm on an overall site of c. 152.6 hectares consisting of the following: c. 449,366 sq m of solar photovoltaic panels on ground mounted steel frames; 19 no. hardstanding locations for electrical skids; new internal access tracks with passing bays; underground power and communications cables and ducts, including along the L-6507, R557, and L-2034 public roads, 3no. Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) locations associated with the underground cable route; a total of 5 no. solar farm site entrances (1no. from the R557 public road, 3no. from the L-6507 public road and 1no. from the L-10562 public road); access gates; 5no. temporary site compounds of c. 4,050 sq m each to be used for storage during construction activity; 28no. Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) Containers and 7no. associated MV Stations as well as associated CCTV, BESS compound fencing, gate, boundary fencing and all associated ancillary drainage development, site works and services. The solar farm will be operational for 40 years. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared in respect of the proposed development and will be submitted to the planning authority with the application.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560875

• 19 Dec 2024Conditional

  (1) RETAIN EXISTING DWELLING WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES AND (2) PLANNING PERMISSION TO (A) EXTEND THE FLOOR AREA OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE INTO THE EXISTING COVERED EXTERNAL RECESSED AREA AT FRONT OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH ASSOCIATED ELEVATIONAL CHANGES; (B) PERMISSION TO CONTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION AT REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH ASSOCIATED ELEVATIONAL CHANGES; (C) PERMISSION FOR 4 NO. PROPOSED ROOF LIGHTS TO ATTIC SPACE AT REAR OF DWLLING HOUSE AND 2 NO. PROPOSED ROOF LIGHTS TO GROUND FLOOR AREA AT FRONT OF DWLLING HOUSE; (D) PERMISSION TO REUSE THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND CONSTRUCTED A NEW PERCOLATIONAREA ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED EXTERNAL WORKS

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 24448

• 3 Dec 2024N/a

  INVALID APPLICATION

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 24435

• 28 Jul 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A SLURRY TOWER COMPLETE WITH AGITATOR AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 21871

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 Lissireen.

Recorded monuments

• KE021-030 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in the NW sector of a pastoral field, this circular enclosure is marked on the 1841-42 OS map. It does not appear on the later edition, and no surface 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. 772. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE021-031 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Lissireen/Lios Irín (ringfort of Irín). This circular enclosure, which is situated three fields S of KE021-030----, is not marked on the 1841-42 OS map. It does appear on the later edition of 1898 and is cut by a fieldbank running NE-SW. No surface 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. 773. 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 Lissireen.

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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_144 (ZIP).

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 Lissireen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Lissireen

Area

762,323 m² (76.23 ha, 188.37 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltomy, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmaurice

Electoral division

Abbeydorney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Abbeydorney electoral division: 1,244 people in 458 households; 76% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aulaneduff, Ballyconnell, Drommakee, Killaspicktarvin, Parkmore, Tullacrimeen

Placenames

Lissireen 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.