Lissyclearig Lower
Lissyclearig Lower is a townland in the civil parish of Kenmare, barony of Glanarought, Co. Kerry. Its name in Irish is Lios Uí Chléirigh Íochtarach.
- Area
- 79.6 ha
- 197 acres
- Land parcels
- 34
- registered freehold, median 3,310 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lissyclearig Lower, from 155 m² to 294,093 m² (29.41 ha, 72.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Lissyclearig Lower 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
29 Sept 2026N/a
Retention permission to retain the existing dwelling house, domestic garage with studio/hobby area overhead, all associated site services and ancillary site works as-built on revised site layout and within revised site boundaries
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2660939
16 Mar 2026Conditional
retention permission to (a) retain the existing dwelling, ancillary domestic structures and all associated site works and services to facilitate this development as built on revised site layout and (b) permission to install two new first floor gable windows for escape / rescue compliance purposes
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2660231
8 Sept 2025Conditional
Retention Permission for a detached garage and polytunnel structure to the rear of the garage.
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2560792
3 May 2024Conditional
Permission to extend existing dwelling house to comprise of a single storey extension to the southern side and a single storey extension to the eastern side including all necessary modifications to the dwelling house to facilitate the construction of the extensions and all necessary ancillary services works and site works
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460273
1 Nov 2022Conditional
RETAIN AND COMPLETE EXISTING DWELLING ON REVISED SITE LAYOUT INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES/WORKS TO FACILITATE THIS DEVELOPMENT AS BUILT ALL WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 221133
16 Mar 2022Conditional
(A) RETENTION PERMISSION TO RETAIN EXISTING DWELLING AND REVISED SITE LAYOUT AS-BUILT ALL WITHIN SITE BOUNDARIES, (B) PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A NEW METAL GARAGE AND (C) PERMISSION FOR ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS TO FACILITATE THIS DEVELOPMENT
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22290
6 Aug 2019Conditional
(A) RETAIN AS CONSTRUCTED EXISTING CONCRETE BLOCK BUILT HOME WORKSHOP, (B) RETAIN AS CONSTRUCTED EXISTING TIMBER FRAME AND SHIP LAP TIMBER FACED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND STORE, (C) RETAIN AS CONSTRUCTED EXISTING MONO-PITCHED ROOFED AREA FOR FIREWOOD STORE AND CLOTHES AIRING AREA (D) RETAIN AS CONSTRUCTED EXISTING TIMBER CLAD GARDEN SHED TO FROM OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE.
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19828
18 Apr 2019Conditional
BUILD A GARAGE ON MY LAND
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19401
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 Lissyclearig Lower.
Recorded monuments
- KE093-001 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on a SW-facing slope overlooking Kenmare Bay. A raised circular area (diam. 26m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.8m; int. H 1.1m) NE-E, by a scarp (H 3.7m) E-NW and truncated NW-NE by an E-W townland boundary. The interior slopes down to the SW. Trees grow around the perimeter and the northern part of the interior is covered with overgrowth. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lissyclearig Lower.
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 Lissyclearig Lower, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lissyclearig Lower.
- 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 Lissyclearig Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Lissyclearig Lower · Lios Uí Chléirigh Íochtarach
- Area
- 796,192 m² (79.62 ha, 196.74 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kenmare, and its townlands
- Barony
- Glanarought
- Electoral division
- Kenmare, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 3,520 people lived in 1,321 households in the Kenmare electoral division. 57% of households owned their home. 52% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 25% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carhoomeengar East, Dromneavane, Gortamullin, Kilmurry, Lissyclearig Upper
- Placenames
- Lissyclearig Lower 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.