Lismakeegan

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lismakeegan, from 677 m² to 146,386 m² (14.64 ha, 36.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Lismakeegan 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.

• 21 Nov 2023Conditional

  the demolition of an existing shed, construction of a new 135sqm replacement shed, repositioning boundaries to extend yard area, and the installation of effluent treatment unit, together with all ancillary site works and services

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 23100

• 15 Feb 2021Conditional

  (a)construct a two storey type domestic dwelling; (b) construct a new site entrance and; (c) construct a domestic Waste Water Treatment System to current EPA Code of Practice together with all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2127

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 Lismakeegan.

Recorded monuments

• LE027-111 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a rise on the W-facing slope of a drumlin. This is a grass-covered circular area (int. diam. 23.5m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.2m generally to 0.45m at N; ext. H 1m) which is incorporated into a field bank N-E-SW, and an external fosse represented by a band of rushes (Wth 2m) W-NW. 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. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE027-112 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located towards the top of the NW-facing slope of a drumlin. This is a grass and rush-covered oval area (int. dims 55m N-S; 34m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 2.1m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.25m at NE to 1.15m at W) which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.65m) at SW, and an external fosse (Wth 1.3-3m; D 0.35m). The monument is bisected by a NW-SE field bank with another field bank running SW from the centre to the perimeter. The original entrance is not identified. Enclosure (LE027-113----) is c. 40m 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

• LE027-113 Enclosure
  Description

  Located in scrub towards the top of the SW-facing slope of a drumlin. It is depicted as a small circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 20m) on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map and as a fragment of a hachured feature in the N corner of a triangular field on the 1911 edition. A scrub-covered area survives in the corner of the field. Its precise classification cannot be determined, and rath (LE027-112----) is c. 40m 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 revision: 23 March 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1482 (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.

No address of the register names Lismakeegan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Lismakeegan · Lios Mhic Cagáin

Area

476,645 m² (47.66 ha, 117.78 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltoghert, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Gowel, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Gowel electoral division: 360 people in 132 households; 93% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clogher, Cloonmulligan, Drumlumman, Farnagh, Grange, Kiltoghert, Tonnagh

Placenames

Lismakeegan 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.