Lissycurrig
Lissycurrig is a townland in the civil parish of Killury, barony of Clanmaurice, Co. Kerry. Its name in Irish is Lios Uí Churraigh.
- Area
- 116 ha
- 287 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 8,039 m² (0.8 ha, 1.99 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lissycurrig, from 471 m² to 323,078 m² (32.31 ha, 79.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Lissycurrig 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
9 Apr 2020Conditional
EXTEND SLATTED HOUSE, TO INCLUDE A FEED PASSAGE AND STRAW BEDDED CALVING PENS FOR COWS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 20336
2 Jul 2018Conditional
EXTEND A SLATTED CUBICLE HOUSE AT BOTH ENDS COMPLETE WITH CUBICLES, SLATTED TANKS , FEED BARRIER, CANOPY AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 18658
4 Sept 2017Conditional
(A)DEMOLISH EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND SHED (B)CONSTRUCTION OF REPLACEMENT DETACHED PART TWO STOREY PART SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE (C) ON SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA (D) NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE TO HOUSE (E) NEW AGRICULTURAL ENTRANCE TO ADJACENT FARMYARD AND (F) ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS ON SITE
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17873
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 Lissycurrig.
Recorded monuments
- KE015-040 Ringfort - rath
Description
This circular enclosure, which appears on the 1841-42 OS map, lies E of KE015-122----. It does not appear on the later edition and no surface trace survives. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 585. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013
- KE015-041 Ringfort - rath
Description
This circular enclosure appears on the 1841-42 OS map. It does not appear on the later edition and no surface trace survives. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 586. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013
- KE015-044 Church
Description
Church (site of), graveyard. This site is marked on the 1841-42 OS map as a 'Church' which would appear to be surrounded by a graveyard (KE015-044001-). On the later edition it appears as 'Church (site of)'. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 949. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013
- KE015-044001 Graveyard
Description
Church (site of), graveyard. This site is marked on the 1841-42 OS map as a 'Church' which would appear to be surrounded by a graveyard (KE015-044001-). On the later edition it appears as 'Church (site of)'. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 949. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lissycurrig.
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 Lissycurrig, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lissycurrig.
- 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 Lissycurrig with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Lissycurrig · Lios Uí Churraigh
- Area
- 1,160,215 m² (116.02 ha, 286.7 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killury, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmaurice
- Electoral division
- Killury, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 491 people lived in 180 households in the Killury electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynoe, Ballynorig East, Ballynorig West, Dromkeen West, Rathmorrel
- Placenames
- Lissycurrig 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.