Liscallyroan
Townland in the civil parish of Kiltoghert, barony of Leitrim, Co. Leitrim; in Irish Lios Choillidh Ruáin
- Area
- 64 ha
- 158 acres
- Land parcels
- 35
- registered freehold, median 4,513 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Liscallyroan, from 594 m² to 120,946 m² (12.09 ha, 29.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Liscallyroan 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
5 Jun 2024Conditional
(a) demolish existing dwelling house, (b) construct replacement dwelling house and domestic garage, and (c) carry out upgrade works to the existing onsite wastewater treatment system with all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2460109
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 Liscallyroan.
Recorded monuments
- LE031-026 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located on a shelf towards the bottom of the SW-facing slope of a drumlin, and it is overlooking a col with a low drumlin c. 300m to the W. This is a grass and rush-covered D-shaped platform (dims 26m NW-SE; 26m NE-SW) defined by a scarp (H 0.5m at NE to 1m at SW) and a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of base 2-3m; ext. D 0.3-0.5m) NNE-S-NW, with slight traces of an external earthen bank (Wth of base 5.5m; H 0.3-0.5m) SSE-WNW. The original entrance is not identified, and the platform is truncated by a NE-SW field drain and bank at NW (L 17m). A N-S field bank that had slightly clipped the fosse at E had been removed by 1999. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 15 October 2019
- LE031-027 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located towards the top of the N-facing slope of a drumlin. This is a grass and rush-covered circular earthen platform (diam. 26m E-W; 24m N-S; H 0.4m at S to 0.75m at N) defined by an intermittently visible fosse (Wth 4m; D 0.25m). The original entrance is not identified. Rath (LE031-028----) is c. 80m to the SSE. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 15 October 2019
- LE031-028 Ringfort - rath
Description
: Located towards the top of the S-facing slope of a drumlin. This is a grass and scrub-covered circular area (int. diam. 26m E-W; 24m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (at W: Wth of base 2.5m; max. H 0.35m) and a slight external fosse (Wth 2m) suggested by lush vegetation. The original entrance is not identified and the monument is truncated slightly by a NW-SE field bank at SW. Rath (LE031-027----) is c. 80m to the NNW The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 15 October 2019
- LE031-029 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located on the W-facing slope of the NNW-SSE spine of a drumlin. This is a grass and rush-covered circular area (int. diam. 28m N-S; 27.5m E-W) that slopes down to the SW. It is defined by an earthen bank (Wth of base 3.4m; int. H 0.1m generally to 0.3m at NE; ext. H 0.3m at NW to 0.95m at SW) with some bushes and an external fosse (Wth of base 1.9m; ext. D 0.2m). The original entrance is not identified. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 15 October 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Liscallyroan.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Liscallyroan.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Liscallyroan, Drumsna7 sales
The townland
- Name
- Liscallyroan · Lios Choillidh Ruáin
- Area
- 639,898 m² (63.99 ha, 158.12 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kiltoghert, and its townlands
- Barony
- Leitrim
- Electoral division
- Drumsna, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Drumsna electoral division: 740 people in 284 households; 87% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aughriman South, Coolcreeve, Drumnadober, Killasanowl, Lisdauky, Lismoyle
- Placenames
- Liscallyroan 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.