Lissiniska

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lissiniska, from 335 m² to 141,647 m² (14.16 ha, 35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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 Lissiniska 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.

• 18 Aug 2026N/a

  Planning Permission for: (1) The change of use from an existing schoolhouse to 2no. domestic dwellings, (2) Replace all existing windows and doors in the existing building, (3) The construction of a rear extension to the existing building, (4) A proposed a new site entrance and driveway, (5) Proposed landscaping and boundary treatment and, (6) The installation of a single wastewater treatment system and percolation area to service both dwellings and, (7) Carry out all ancillary site works at Lissiniska Td., Rossinver, Co. Leitrim.

  Permission, 2 homes · Leitrim County Council, 2660200

• 13 Jul 2022Conditional

  retain a single storey agricultural storage shed with all associated site works

  Retention · Leitrim County Council, 22137

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

Designated sites

• Natural Heritage Area: Aghavoghil Bog NHA 002430

Recorded monuments

• LE004-010 Cairn - boundary cairn
  Description

  Marked as a cairn described in italic lettering as ‘Farbreague’ meaning ‘False man’ on the 1835 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and described as Farbreague on the 1910 ed. It is situated on a local high point of a broad, bog-covered plateau and at the point where four townlands meet, with Cloghan to the NW, Shasgar to the NE, Lissiniska to the SE and Mautiagh to the SW. The boundaries are established as stone walls, except that between Cloghan and Shasgar, which is missing. The feature is described as a stone which had the appearance of a man (H c. 2.1m [7ft]) (OS Name Books, No. 84, 597). There is a pyramid of stones (diam. 0.8m; H 1m) at the junction of the townlands. 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

• LE004-026 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture in a low-lying position on the floor of Glenaniff valley. A ringfort in Lissaniska was described c. 1942 as a D-shaped area (dim. c. 25m) defined by an earthen bank (H c. 1m) and backing on to a stream on the E side (SMR file). Its exact position is not known. 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

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

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 5 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 Lissiniska.

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

Name

Lissiniska · Lios an Uisce

Area

1,559,405 m² (155.94 ha, 385.34 acres)

Civil parish

Rossinver, and its townlands

Barony

Rosclogher

Electoral division

Glenaniff, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Glenaniff electoral division: 181 people in 71 households; 89% of households own their home; 19% of homes were built since 2001; 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghnahoo, Carrowkeel, Cloghan, Corlea, Mautiagh, Mollynadinta, Shasgar

Placenames

Lissiniska 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.