Lisduff
Townland in the civil parish of Kiltoghert, barony of Leitrim, Co. Leitrim; in Irish An Lios Dubh
- Area
- 31.5 ha
- 78 acres
- Land parcels
- 20
- registered freehold, median 5,673 m² (0.57 ha, 1.4 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisduff, from 694 m² to 69,158 m² (6.92 ha, 17.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Lisduff 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
21 Jun 2022Conditional
(a) construction of a detached dwelling house and, (b)domestic garage together with connection to existing services and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 22118
4 Mar 2022Conditional
provision of a 2 storey extension to the rear South Western Elevation of the existing dwelling house, including a link corridor, complete with necessary refurbishment works and material alterations including connection to all existing services and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2229
27 May 2020Conditional
construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, new entrance onto the public road with connections to services and associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2079
3 Apr 2020Conditional
of a detached hut ancillary to the enjoyment of the dwelling house to the south eastern side elevation of the dwelling house and a detached shed to the south western rear elevation of the dwelling house ancillary to the enjoyment of the dwelling house, including all ancillary works
Retention · Leitrim County Council, 2055
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 Lisduff.
Recorded monuments
- LE031-019 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated in a low-lying position between drumlins. This is an overgrown circular area (diam. c. 35m) defined by an earthen bank (at N: Wth of base 2.2m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.75m) and an external flat-bottomed fosse (at N: Wth 3.5m; ext. D 0.3m). The original entrance is not identified, and field banks are attached to the perimeter at N, NE, SE and 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 15 October 2019
- LE031-020001 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a slight rise in an undulating landscape. This is a subcircular platform (dims c. 30m WNW-ESE; c. 25m NNE-SSW) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth c. 2m; H c. 1m) and hedge E-S but largely by a scarp (H c. 1m) and hedge, with an outer fosse (Wth of top c. 4m; D c. 1m) NW-ESE (OSFM). The interior contains a rectangular, roofed building (int. dims 18m NW-SE; 4.8m NE-SW) which is described in italic lettering as a Roman Catholic Church and also as a School on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map. The enclosure is now used as a haggard. 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
- LE031-020002 Church
Description
The Roman Catholic church of Lisduff is within the rath (LE031-020001-) and it is described as such on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map. It later became a school, and there is a local story that it was attacked by the military during the War of Independence in the course of a dance. This is a rectangular, roofed building (int. dims 18m NW-SE; 4.8m NE-SW) with two doorways and four windows in the SW wall, two windows in the NE, and one each in the NW and SE walls. It has an inserted wall from when it was converted into a school in 1882, which date is over one of the doorways. It is now used as a cow-shed. Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 18 October 2010 Revised: 15 October, 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lisduff.
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 low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1483 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Lisduff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Lisduff · An Lios Dubh
- Area
- 315,395 m² (31.54 ha, 77.94 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kiltoghert, and its townlands
- Barony
- Leitrim
- Electoral division
- Carrick-On-Shannon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Carrick-On-Shannon electoral division: 4,445 people in 1,721 households; 56% of households own their home; 51% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cornaslieve, Correen, Dromore, Garvlough, Greagh, Kiltycarney, Lisseeghan
- Placenames
- Lisduff 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.