Lisnamuck
Townland in the civil parish of Croagh, barony of Connello Lower, Co. Limerick; in Irish Lios na Muice
- Area
- 147.2 ha
- 364 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 4,211 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisnamuck, from 724 m² to 493,793 m² (49.38 ha, 122.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Lisnamuck 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
3 Nov 2025Conditional
the construction of a new dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, driveway, packaged wastewater unit and percolation area and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2561126
5 Sept 2025Conditional
extension to the red line site boundary, to block up current entrance granted under planning file 20/794 and to construct a new replacement entrance, and a new garage and all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560891
14 May 2025Refused
the installation of thirteen glamping pods, toilets & showers, sauna, pavilion, re-use of existing building for bicycle and bin storage, two storage containers, wastewater treatment system, entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560443
22 Sept 2023Conditional
the construction of a new storey and a half dwelling house, new site entrance, treatment system and soil polishing filter, and all associated ancillary site works all
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2360700
4 Jul 2023Conditional
construction of a dormer style detached dwelling house, detached garage, site entrance, septic tank with wastewater treatment system, bored well as water supply and all associated site services
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 23361
19 Apr 2022Conditional
construction of a new dwelling house, detached garage, site entrance, wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22431
5 Mar 2021Conditional
the construction of a new single storey dwelling house, a new site entrance, and to install a mechanical wastewater treatment pumped unit, intermittent filter & polishing filter & all associated external works, servicing and landscaping & a detached domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21261
16 Oct 2020Conditional
construction of a four bedroom two storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, septic tank with percolation area, front entrance and all associated services
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 201040
14 Aug 2020Conditional
the construction of a dwelling house, entrance, waste water treatment plant and percolation area and to sink a well and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20794
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 Lisnamuck.
Recorded monuments
- LI020-040 Enclosure
Description
In pasture, on S-facing hill slope in area of outcropping limestone. D-shaped area (48m N-S; 34m E-W) enclosed by dry-stone wall (int. H 1m; ext. H 1.1), with vertical inner face and sod-covered sloping outer face SE->NNE, and by linear dry-stone field wall on NE side. Cattle trough inserted into inner wall face at N; interior used as paddock. Interior, under pasture, slopes down to S. Access to interior via gate in field wall. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006. See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.
- LI020-041 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on N-facing slope, immediately N of farmhouse. Monument, depicted as roughly circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. According to landowner enclosure was used as a kitchen garden. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
- House, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1790. Single-bay single-storey lean-to to rear (east) elevation. Pitched thatched roof with red brick chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with painted stone sills. Square-headed opening with half-glazed timber panelled door. Two-bay single-storey outbuilding to north with two-bay single-storey outbuilding adjoining west elevation. Pitched corrugated-iron roof. Painted rubble limestone walls. Square-headed door openings. Three-bay single-storey outbuilding to east having pitched slate roof. Painted rubble limestone walls. Square-headed arrow slit window opening. Square-headed opening having double-leaf timber battened doors. Square-headed door opening.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Lisnamuck.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Lisnamuck with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Lisnamuck · Lios na Muice
- Area
- 1,471,982 m² (147.2 ha, 363.73 acres)
- Civil parish
- Croagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Connello Lower
- Electoral division
- Croagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Croagh electoral division: 833 people in 248 households; 87% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballincurra, Ballynagool, Ballynamona, Currahchase, Lurraga
- Placenames
- Lisnamuck 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.