Liskennett West

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Liskennett West, from 23 m² to 337,208 m² (33.72 ha, 83.33 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 Liskennett West 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.

• 10 Sept 2020Conditional

  demolition of existing extension to dwelling and permission to construct a new extension and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 20897

• 8 Dec 2017Conditional

  the installation of a new waste water treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 171145

• 23 Jun 2017Conditional

  construction of a fourteen space car park with associated fencing, gates, barriers and signage

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 17590

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 Liskennett West.

Recorded monuments

• LI030-097 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In forestry, on NE-facing slope. Monument, depicted as roughly circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1924 OS 6-inch map, could not be located in dense undergrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI030-098 Moated site
  Description

  In forestry, on a N-facing slope, 20m E of a townland boundary with Kilmacanearla South. Ringfort (LI030-097----) lies 75m to SW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a rectangular-shaped enclosure on GSI aerial photo (R.546). Monument surveyed by the ASI in 1996 and described as access not gained. Monument is visible as a rectangular-shaped earthwork (21m NW-SE; 20m NE-SW) on Google Earth orthoimages taken 08/04/2015 and 16/03/2016. Obscured by a self-seeded woodland area, to N of a forest road running WNW-ESE on the Google Earth orthoimage taken 24/09/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimages taken 08/04/2015, 16/03/2016 and 24/09/2018 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 22 October 2020

• LI030-099 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on NE-facing hillside. There is a coniferous wood immediately W of site. Circular area (diam. c. 20m) enclosed by earthen bank (ext. H 1.05m). Most of enclosing element and all of interior are covered by dense overgrowth. Field boundaries abut enclosure at SE and W. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI030-100 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on NNE-facing hillside. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on 1924 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI038-031 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on break in S-facing hill slope. Sub-rectangular area (25.5m N-S; 20m E-W) fully enclosed by inner earthen bank and partially by outer earthen bank with intervening fosse (Wth 1.95m). Inner bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 2m), best preserved NE->SE, becomes quite linear along N and E sides before curving gently from SE to NW corner. Outer bank (ext. H 0.45m) can be clearly traced S->WSW, being best preserved at SW; remains of removed linear bank along outer edge of fosse SE->S. In general, fosse (D 1.45m) is present only where outer bank is visible S->WSW, best preserved at SW where it is littered with loose stone. Interior, under pasture, dips gently towards the centre with mature deciduous trees growing along verges at NE and S->WNW. Raised farm passage skirts close to W side. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Liskennett West.

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 Liskennett West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Liskennett West · Lios Coinéad Thiar

Area

1,215,257 m² (121.53 ha, 300.3 acres)

Civil parish

Ballingarry(Croom Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Connello Upper

Electoral division

Coolrus, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Coolrus electoral division: 469 people in 154 households; 93% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Doorlus, Graigacurragh, Granagh, Kilmacanearla South, Kilmore, Liskennett East, Morenane

Placenames

Liskennett West 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.