Liscormick
Liscormick is a townland in the civil parish of Agharra, barony of Shrule, Co. Longford. Its name in Irish is Lios Cormaic.
- Area
- 76.7 ha
- 189 acres
- Land parcels
- 8
- registered freehold, median 7,949 m² (0.79 ha, 1.96 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Liscormick, from 1,190 m² to 361,981 m² (36.2 ha, 89.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Liscormick 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
1 Jul 2019Conditional
the construction of a new forestry access entrance and all associated site works to existing forestry lands
Permission · Longford County Council, 19172
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 Liscormick.
Recorded monuments
- LF023-028 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a low rise in well-drained pasture. Depicted as the arc of an enclosure, extending from NW-N-E, with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 16 January 2012
- LF023-029 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a low ridge in pasture. A raised oval area (c. 52m NE-SW; c. 40m NW-SE) enclosed from SSW-N-NNE by a partially denuded, low bank of earth and stone (Wth 1.8m; H 0.4m). From NNE-E-SE the defining element is a scarp (H 1.4m). From SE-S-SSW the enclosing element and a portion of the interior have been levelled. At the base of the bank from W-NW-N there is an intervening fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.15m) and an outer bank (Wth 1.7m; H 0.45m). A wide berm (Wth 4m; H 0.4m) is visible at the base of the scarp from NE-E-ESE. A break (Wth 2m) in the bank at N may mark the original entrance. Within the interior at E is an area of exposed outcropping rock. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 16 January 2012
- LF023-138 Enclosure - large enclosure
Description
Outline of possible large oval-shaped enclosure (approx. overall diam. 100m) bisected by a public road (R393) which forms the townland boundary between Liscormick and Deerpark. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Edmond O'Donovan Date of upload: 30 October 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Liscormick.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Liscormick, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Liscormick.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Liscormick with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.
The townland
- Name
- Liscormick · Lios Cormaic
- Area
- 766,772 m² (76.68 ha, 189.47 acres)
- Civil parish
- Agharra, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shrule
- Electoral division
- Kilglass, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 730 people lived in 280 households in the Kilglass electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymacshane, Deerpark, Knockagh, Screeboge, Tennalough
- Placenames
- Liscormick 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.