Lissinagroagh

71 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lissinagroagh, from 53 m² to 234,081 m² (23.41 ha, 57.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 36 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 Lissinagroagh 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.

• 9 Dec 2019Conditional

  for a new forest road entrance and erection of a new security barrier together with all ancillary site services and associated site works

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 19270

• 11 Oct 2017Conditional

  construction of new roadside layby/loading bay, for the thinning/extraction of timber from the existing forestry and associated site development works

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 17187

• 11 Oct 2017Conditional

  construction of new forestry road with new entrance onto public road together with a roadside layby/loading bay, for the thinning/extraction of timber from the existing forestry and associated site development works

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 17188

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Gill SAC 001976
• Natural Heritage Area: Dough/Thur Mountains NHA 002384

Recorded monuments

• LE008-023001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a slight E-W ridge on the lower S-facing slope of Dough Mountain with a NE-SW section of a mountain stream c. 70m to the NW. It is described as ‘Lissinagroagh’ in gothic lettering on the 1910 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This is an overgrown subcircular area (int. dims 17.7m E-W; 15.4m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5-6m; int. H 0.2-0.8m; ext. H 1.5-3m) with an outer fosse (Wth of base 2-3m; ext. D 0.5-1.2m), which is partly rock-cut at E, but defined by an external bank (Wth 5-6m; max. ext. H 1.8m) SE-W. The external bank is not completed elsewhere. There is an entrance (Wth 2m) through the inner bank at NE and the souterrain (LE008-023002-) is in the NE part of the interior. 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

• LE008-023002 Souterrain
  Description

  Located on a slight E-W ridge on the lower S-facing slope of Dough Mountain. An L-shaped souterrain (total L 7m plus) is visible as two collapsed sections of underground passage, possibly with a beehive chamber at the angle, within the NE quadrant of rath (LE008-023001--). 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

• LE012-006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located at the tip of an E-W spur in a deciduous forest. This is an overgrown circular area (int. diam. 28m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth c. 6-7m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H c. 1.3m) and outer fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.4-0.6m). There is no identifiable original entrance. 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

• LE012-007 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  Depicted as a circular ring of trees but described as a 'fort' on the 1835 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, it is located on a slight rise on a W-facing slope. c. 120m SW of house described on the 1910 ed. of the 6-inch map as Lisnagroth Lodge. This is a circular area (int. diam. 16m) planted with mature deciduous trees, defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.9m), which is separated by a fosse (Wth 2.2m; D 0.25m) from an outer bank (Wth 2m; ext. H 1.1m) and slight outer fosse (Wth 1m; D 0.2m). It is probably a tree-ring. 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

Architectural heritage

• Fortland House, country house, 1720–1760 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over raised basement country house, built c.1740, with return to rear. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls with stucco quoins. Timber sash windows and tooled limestone sills. Segmental-headed door opening with replacement uPVC door, fanlight and sidelights. Replacement concrete steps to entrance. Outbuildings to rear of site.

• Worker's house, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay single-storey with attic former railway house, built c.1860, with lean-to entrance porch to south. No longer in use. Pitched slate roof with ashlar chimneystacks and bracketed eaves. Painted cut limestone walls. Timber sash windows and stone sills. Replacement timber and glazing door. Enclosed yard to rear of site with sheds. Positioned at a former level crossing on the Sligo, Leitrim & Northern Counties Railway line.

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 20 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 Lissinagroagh.

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

Name

Lissinagroagh · Lisín na gCruach

Area

3,214,199 m² (321.42 ha, 794.25 acres)

Civil parish

Cloonclare, and its townlands

Barony

Rosclogher

Electoral division

Munakill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Munakill electoral division: 186 people in 65 households; 87% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 21% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Blackmountain, Boleyboy, Carraun, Loughaphonta, Loughaphonta Barr, Lugasnaghta, Moneenshinnagh, Munakill, Tawnylust, Tawnylust Barr, Tawnyunshinagh

Placenames

Lissinagroagh 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.