Lissaleen
Townland in the civil parish of Croom, barony of Pubblebrien, Co. Limerick; in Irish Lios an Lín
- Area
- 81.1 ha
- 200 acres
- Land parcels
- 24
- registered freehold, median 2,558 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lissaleen, from 495 m² to 251,517 m² (25.15 ha, 62.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 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 Lissaleen 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
14 Apr 2022Conditional
demolition of the existing extension to side & rear of existing dwellinghouse, construction of a porch to front and for the construction of a new extension to side & rear of house, installation of a replacement domestic wastewater treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22420
14 Mar 2022Conditional
the construction of a dwelling house, detached domestic garage, mechanical aeration unit and soil polishing filter, new vehicular entrance and carry out all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22289
20 Aug 2020Conditional
construction of a new slatted cubicle shed, calving pens, calf pens, manure pit and concrete aprons
Permission · Limerick County Council, 20815
3 Mar 2017Conditional
to construct a two storey house with domestic garage, front entrance gate, wall with packaged waste water treatment system and polishing filter, and connection to all existing services
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17197
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 Lissaleen.
Recorded monuments
- LI012-077 Enclosure
Description
In pasture 160m W of townland boundary with Lurraga. Depicted on the 1840 0S 6-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped area enclosed by a bank. It is not depicted on the 1897 OS 25-inch map. No surface remains visible today on Google Earth orthoimage taken 2020. Possible faint cropmark of enclosure visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 06/02/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date upload 19 June 2020
- LI021-012 Ritual site - holy well
Description
Ó Danachair (1955, 213) recorded the following details about Sunday Well; ' "Sunday's Well" on 1840 map. This well was filled in about 1880. A large elm tree grows at the site of the well, which is in a farmyard. Embedded in the roots of the tree is an upright slab inscribed "IHS 1760 THOMAS BANKS" said to have been erected by a man who was cured of blindness here. There are stations performed here by the peasantry on Sundays' (OSNB). See attached photos taken in 1954 by Caoimhín Ó Danachair, courtesy of and © National Folklore Collection, UCD. The Photographic Collection, F025.21.00210 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/17002 and F025.21.00211 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/31114. Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 3 October 2020
- LI021-013 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
In gentle undulating pasture with moderate view in all directions, 170m NE of the townland boundary with Kilgobbin. Sunday Well (LI021-012----) located 264m to NW. Depicted on the 1840 OS 6-inch map as a circular shaped area enclosed by a bank. Shown as a raised circular-shaped platform (approx. diam. 26m) defined by a scarp on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map. No surface remains visible. Levelled monument not visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 14/02/2020 See attached Google earth orthoimages Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 16 July 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lissaleen.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_850 (ZIP).
- 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 Lissaleen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Lissaleen · Lios an Lín
- Area
- 810,617 m² (81.06 ha, 200.31 acres)
- Civil parish
- Croom, and its townlands
- Barony
- Pubblebrien
- Electoral division
- Clarina, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Clarina electoral division: 1,993 people in 697 households; 86% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyloughnaan, Cloonaduff, Cloonanna, Kilgobbin, Lurraga
- Placenames
- Lissaleen 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.