Liskilly
Liskilly is a townland in the civil parish of Adare, barony of Coshma, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Lios Chúil na Beithe.
- Area
- 73 ha
- 180 acres
- Land parcels
- 37
- registered freehold, median 8,508 m² (0.85 ha, 2.1 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Liskilly, from 705 m² to 134,730 m² (13.47 ha, 33.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Liskilly 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
8 Feb 2025Conditional
a dormer dwelling house, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, raised polishing filter, entrance, and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560102
19 Dec 2024N/a
a dormer dwelling house, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, raised polishing filter, entrance, and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2461288
15 Apr 2021Conditional
construction of a dormer dwelling house, detached domestic garage, packaged wastewater treatment system, polishing filter, entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 21481
11 Dec 2020Refused
construction of a dormer dwelling house, detached domestic garage, packaged wastewater treatment system, polishing filter, entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 201331
1 Jul 2019Conditional
proposed dormer dwelling house, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter, entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 19642
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 Liskilly.
Recorded monuments
- LI021-049 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture on the summit of a low hill with excellent views in all directions, enclosure (LI021-052----) lies 440m TO E on the townland boundary with Garranroe. The ringfort is depicted as a circular enclosure on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map abutting a farm lane and as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. 51m N-S; 43m E-W) on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map surrounded on the N and W side by an external fosse, a small gravel pit is depicted 5m to the W. Inspected by the ASI in 2000, the ringfort consisted of a level circular raised area (int. diam. c. 30m) defined by a low bank (Wth 4.1m; int. H 0.7; ext. H 1.6m) and external fosse (Wth 6.7m; D 1m). The site was overgrown with field stones cleared into the ditch. Monument visible as a cropmark on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018 and 14/02/2020 suggesting that the monument was further incorporated into the field since 2000. See attached ASI plan and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 11 August 2020
- LI021-051 Enclosure
Description
In pasture on a slight N-facing slope, with excellent views to the N, W and E, poorer views to the S onto higher ground. Located 275m W of the townland boundary Garranroe, ringfort (LI021-049---) 275m to SW and a large enclosure (LI021-052----) lies 430m to SE. Depicted as a large circular-shaped enclosure (diam. c. 65m) on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as an oval-shaped field (ext. diam. 60m N-S; 57m E-W) with straightened sides at N and W at the junction of three fields. The site has been levelled and was inspected in 2000 by the ASI and described as having no extant trace above ground level where all field boundaries relating to the monument have been removed. No surface remains visible on Google earth orthophotos taken 28/06/2018 and 14/02/2000. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 16 August 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Liskilly.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Liskilly, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Liskilly with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Liskilly · Lios Chúil na Beithe
- Area
- 730,334 m² (73.03 ha, 180.47 acres)
- Civil parish
- Adare, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coshma
- Electoral division
- Adare South, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,225 people lived in 730 households in the Adare South electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballygeale, Castleroberts, Fanningstown, Garranroe, Knockanes
- Placenames
- Liskilly 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.