Lisdarush

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisdarush, from 605 m² to 997,655 m² (99.77 ha, 246.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Lisdarush 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.

• 23 Sept 2025Conditional

  1. To construct a two storey domestic extension to the existing dwelling. 2. To demolish the existing front porch from the dwelling. 3. To carry out alterations to the existing elevations. 4. To upgrade the existing wastewater treatment system to the current EPA code of practice and all ancillary works.

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2560242

• 22 Aug 2024Conditional

  1. To construct a storey and a half type domestic dwelling, 2. To construct a domestic garage, 3. To construct a new site entrance, 4. To construct a domestic waste water treatment system to current EPA Code Of Practice standard together with all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2460169

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 Lisdarush.

Recorded monuments

• LE008-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a gentle rise of a NW-facing slope towards the bottom of Saddle Hill. This is a grass and scrub-covered oval area (int. dims 33.3m E-W; 27m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 3.8m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.1m at E to 3.8m SW-W) which is reduced to a scarp in places. There is no visible fosse and the original entrance is not identified. The monument is bisected by a N-S field bank, now levelled, and a disused farm track circumscribes it at SW. 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. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE008-002 Barrow - mound barrow
  Description

  Located towards the bottom of a NW-facing fold on a general NE-facing slope overlooking Lough Melvin. This is a grass-covered circular mound (diam. 11m; H 0.8m) which is slightly lower at the centre than the perimeter. The ceremonial enclosure (LE008-004001-) is c. 90m to the S and a ring-barrow (LE008-003----) is c. 35m to the E. 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. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE008-003 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  On a knoll on a NW-facing slope overlooking Lough Melvin. This is a grass-covered circular and dished mound (diam. 9.1m N-S; 8.9m E-W; H 0.1-0.3m) defined by a fosse or berm (Wth 0.6m) and an outer bank (Wth 1.9-2.2m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.35m at N to 1-1.4m generally) (max. ext. diam. 18.4m E-W; 17.7m N-S). There is a faint causeway (Wth c. 1.5m) at SW. The ceremonial enclosure (LE008-004001-) is c. 80m to the SSW and the mound barrow (LE008-002----) is c. 35m to the W. 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. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE008-004001 Ceremonial enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a slight NE-SW ridge on the lower NW-facing slope of Saddle Hill, and overlooking Lough Melvin which lies to the NE. This is a grass-covered circular area (int. diam. 113m N-S; 109m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3m; H 0.3m) N-E, which is mainly reduced to a scarp elsewhere. The bank is separated by a fosse (Wth at S 4m; at E 7m) from an outer bank (Wth 3.2m; H 1.2m at N). A lane occupies the fosse NW-N-SE and there is a limestone standing stone (H 0.7m) which is probably not ancient in the NE quadrant of the enclosure. An original entrance is not identified. A ring-barrow (LE008-003---) and mound barrow (LE008-002---) are c. 80m to the NNE and c. 90m to the N respectively. See the attached aerial view taken from the N. 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. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE008-004002 Standing stone
  Description

  Situated on a slight NE-SW ridge on the lower NW-facing slope of Saddle Hill, and overlooking Lough Melvin which lies to the NE. There is a limestone standing stone (H 0.7m) in the NE quadrant of hillfort (LE008-004001-), which is probably not ancient. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 29 January, 2016

• LE008-005 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  Located in rough pasture on a shelf, which is on the NE-facing slope of a Saddle Hill. This monument consists of a single chamber (dims 2.6m NE-SW; 1.6m NW-SE) formed of three slabs (max. H 0.5m) and open to the SW, with a double wall formed from a single slab (L 2.9m) on the SE side. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 58) 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. Date of upload: 23 September 2008 See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972).

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lisdarush.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, 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 Lisdarush.

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 Lisdarush with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Lisdarush · Lios Rátha Rois

Area

2,458,657 m² (245.87 ha, 607.55 acres)

Civil parish

Rossinver, and its townlands

Barony

Rosclogher

Electoral division

Ballaghameehan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballaghameehan electoral division: 196 people in 79 households; 83% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 13% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolodonnell, Faughary, Gortnacrieve, Killea, Shasmore

Placenames

Lisdarush 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.