Lissowen

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lissowen, from 101 m² to 166,403 m² (16.64 ha, 41.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Lissowen 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 Lissowen 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 Lissowen.

Recorded monuments

• LI016-014 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On high ground on NE-facing slope of elevated land, in rough pasture with forestry abutting to the immediate N. Annotated 'Lisselim' and bisected by townland boundary running E-W on 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map. Depicted on the 1897 OS 25-inch map as an oval-shaped area (25m E-W; 21m N-S) with townland boundary of Doon North forming N enclosing element of monument. Monument is visible as a roughly oval-shaped, scrub-covered enclosure on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 18/11/2018. The Google Earth orthoimage shows new forestry planted to E, S and W. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 12 July 2020

• LI016-021 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pasture, townland boundary with Toomaline Upper lies immediately to S. Enclosure (LI016-022----) lies approx. 85m to NW and Tobergal lies 80m to W. Not depicted on OS maps. Identified by the ASI in 2003 as a circular-shaped feature visible on aerial photography (ASIAP 354, 20). Monument visible as a circular-shaped cropmark (approx. dims. 40m E-W; 38m N-S) on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 18/11/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 13 July 2020

• LI016-022 Enclosure
  Description

  In undulating pasture, possible ringfort site (LI016-021----) lies 85m to SE. Not depicted on OS historic maps. Identified by the ASI in 2003 as a circular-shaped feature visible on aerial photography (ASIAP 354, 20). Monument visible as a circular-shaped cropmark (40m E-W; 38m N-S) abutting a field boundary to SE on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 18/11/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 13 July 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Lissowen.

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

Name

Lissowen · Lios Eoghain

Area

764,228 m² (76.42 ha, 188.84 acres)

Civil parish

Doon, and its townlands

Barony

Coonagh

Electoral division

Doon South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Doon South electoral division: 1,352 people in 507 households; 75% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Doon North, Doon South, Glengar (Co. Tipperary), Toomaline Upper

Placenames

Lissowen 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.