Lisduff (Montgomery)
Townland in the civil parish of Ardagh, barony of Moydow, Co. Longford; in Irish An Lios Dubh
- Area
- 143.1 ha
- 354 acres
- Land parcels
- 48
- registered freehold, median 16,312 m² (1.63 ha, 4.03 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisduff (Montgomery), from 771 m² to 144,096 m² (14.41 ha, 35.61 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Lisduff (Montgomery) 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
11 Jun 2020Conditional
proposed construction of a single storey extension to the rear of existing dwelling house. Proposed installation of a wastewater treatment system with suitable polishing filter to service existing dwelling house. Proposed construction of a new entrance and driveway to service existing dwelling house. Proposed demolition of existing storage shed/agricultural shed together with the proposed construction of a domestic garage to service existing dwelling house and all ancillary works
Permission · Longford County Council, 20124
17 Feb 2017Conditional
the alterations and extension to existing house, to include change of design from single storey bungalow to two-storey style dwelling, formation of new front boundary wall and site entrance with new wing walls and gates. New site access driveway, domestic garage and large storage shed to rear of site. Decommissioning of existing septic tank and associated soak-away. The installation of a new wastewater treatment plant with new soil polishing filter (percolation area) to EPA standards. New landscaping and all ancillary site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 1745
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 Lisduff (Montgomery).
Recorded monuments
- LF019-039 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a steep N-facing slope in pasture. Not indicated on the 1837 or 1883 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. A slightly raised circular area (diam. c. 25m) enclosed by a much-denuded, low bank of earth and stone (Wth 3m; H 0.4m). An external field drain from W-N-SE probably incorporates a pre-existing fosse. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded that the original entrance may have been at either NE or SE. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 16 January 2012
- LF019-123 Fulacht fia
Description
On a N-facing slope in rough pasture. A well-defined, low, horseshoe-shaped mound (10m N-S; 7m E-W; H 0.4-0.5m) of earth and stone opening to the SW. Some burnt stone is visible. The bed of a stream may be traced a short distance to the E. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 2 March 2012
Architectural heritage
- House, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey over raised basement house/farmhouse, built c. 1865. Hipped natural slate roof with cut stone eaves course and a central pair of rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered finish over rubble stone construction with projecting chamfered string course above basement level. Roughly dressed flush quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings with flush brick reveals, stone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Central square-headed doorway to the front elevation (southwest) having timber panelled door with plain overlight, and with dressed limestone plinth blocks to base and cut limestone threshold. Modern flight of concrete steps to entrance. Set back from road in own grounds to the west/northwest of Ardagh. Laneway to the south of house. Single-storey outbuildings, including probable former dwelling, to the rear (east), having pitched corrugated-metal roof and mud walls over rubble stone base/footings. Rubble stone chimneybreast to the west gable end of outbuilding to the east.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Lisduff (Montgomery).
- 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 Lisduff (Montgomery) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.
The townland
- Name
- Lisduff (Montgomery) · An Lios Dubh
- Area
- 1,431,169 m² (143.12 ha, 353.65 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ardagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moydow
- Electoral division
- Ardagh West, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ardagh West electoral division: 509 people in 173 households; 89% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bawn, Bawn Mountain, Cartrongarrow, Garrycam, Graffoge, Grillagh, Keel
- Placenames
- Lisduff (Montgomery) 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.