Lissavarra

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lissavarra, from 1,757 m² to 164,122 m² (16.41 ha, 40.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Lissavarra 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Lissavarra in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Lissavarra.

Recorded monuments

• LI029-122 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In flat pasture abutting the townland boundary with Lisamota to the SW. Located 165m N of t a Children’s Burial Ground (LI030-031002-). The site is depicted as a circular enclosure on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Not shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. The curving W side of the enclosure survives in a field boundary visible on the OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12 and on the Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. The levelled monument (ext. diam. c. 32m N-S; 27m E-W) is faintly visible on the Google Earth orthoimage taken 29/03/2012 and 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 25 September 2020

• LI030-032 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on SW-facing slope. Monument, depicted on 1841 OS 6-inch map as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m), has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Surrounding field boundaries have been removed. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI030-033 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle NE-facing slope. Circular area (31m N-S; 32m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 0.8m; Wth 7m) WNW->S, with external fosse (D 0.3m; Wth 1.5m) N->NE. Enclosing element partially levelled S->WNW when field boundary, which truncated enclosure, was removed c. 1980. Interior dips down towards centre and is under pasture. 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 Lissavarra.

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 low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lissavarra.

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

Name

Lissavarra · Lios an Bharraigh

Area

617,147 m² (61.71 ha, 152.5 acres)

Civil parish

Ballingarry(Croom Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Connello Upper

Electoral division

Kilfinny, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilfinny electoral division: 314 people in 103 households; 90% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynaguila, Kilbeg West, Lissamota

Placenames

Lissavarra 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.