Lisbrack

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisbrack, from 33 m² to 6,390 m² (0.64 ha, 1.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 2 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.

• R2Residential (Existing residential)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 14 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Recreation/Amenity/Green Space (Open space, park)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 30 Nov 2017Conditional

  for the proposed construction of 4 No. Four Bedroom Two Storey Semi-Detached Type Dwelling Houses On Site No's 09-12 Inclusive of the same Design that were Previously Granted Full Planning Permission Under Planning Reference Number PL04/714, Proposed Connections Into the Existing Foul Sewer, Surface Water & watermain Networks Serving the existing Housing Estate which was Previously Granted Full Planning Permission under Planning Reference Number PL04/714 and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 17297

• 23 Nov 2017Conditional

  proposed single storey extensions to the side and rear of existing dwelling together with amendment to fenestration at first floor level to northern elevation of dwelling house

  Permission · Longford County Council, 17292

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 Lisbrack.

Recorded monuments

• LF008-014001 Church
  Description

  In flat pasture, within a disused graveyard (LF008-014002-). This late-medieval parish church (ext. dims. 17.6m E-W; 8m N-S) is built of uncoursed rubble and limestone. The doorway is in the S wall. Apart from a simple single-light window in the W gable and splayed opes in the E gable and S wall, no other architectural features survive. It is densely overgrown with vegetation. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 5 June 2013

• LF008-014002 Graveyard
  Description

  Associated with a late-medieval parish church (LF008-014001-), which occupies most of its NW end. This disused subrectangular graveyard (22m NW-SE; 21m NE-SW) was densely overgrown when visited rendering inspection of the memorials impossible. (Lennon 2005) Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 5 June 2012

• LF008-015 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pastureland. Depicted as a large oval enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. The monument has been levelled. All that survives is a low scarp (H 0.3-0.7m) curving from WSW-N-NNE. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 16 January 2012

Architectural heritage

• Bishop's House, presbytery/parochial/curate's house, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay two-storey former bishop's house on irregular-plan with various gable-fronted breakfronts/bays, built c. 1870. Subsequently used as a convent, later as a boarding school, and now in use as nursing home. Full-height three-bay canted projection to the northeast gable end. Various extensions to rear (north and northeast). Possibly incorporating fabric of earlier building. Pitched and hipped natural slate roofs with cut stone and rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods and decorative timber bargeboards to gable-fronted sections. Painted pebbledashed walls over smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings, some paired, with mixed one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and replacement timber windows. Paired one-over-one timber sash windows to centre of principal elevation (southeast) with moulded render detailing over having quatrefoil motifs (giving impression of pointed arch window opening) with three-over-three pane timber sash window above at first floor level, set in pointed arch recess with inset quatrefoil motif. Continuous stepped label moulding over window opening at first floor level to gable-fronted section at the northeast end of principal elevation (southeast). Tripartite timber casement window to the southwest gable end at ground floor level. Square-headed door opening to the southwest end of principal elevation having replacement glazed timber door with plain overlight above. Projecting open lean-to porch to doorway supported on moulded cast-iron column. Single-storey outbuildings to rear with pitched and hipped natural slate roofs, rubble limestone walls (one now cement rendered), segmental-headed carriage arches and square-headed window and door openings. Located in own grounds to the north end of Newtown-Forbes. Rubble stone boundary wall to road-frontage.

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

At the centre of the townland of Lisbrack, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Lisbrack with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Lisbrack · An Lios Breac

Area

189,078 m² (18.91 ha, 46.72 acres)

Civil parish

Clongesh, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Newtown Forbes, the unit of the census

Census 2022

985 people lived in 411 households in the Newtown Forbes electoral division. 65% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrickmoyragh, Castleforbes Demesne, Deerpark, St. Anne's Glebe, Townparks

Placenames

Lisbrack 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.