Lisglassock

3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisglassock, from 9,465 m² (0.95 ha, 2.34 acres) to 262,533 m² (26.25 ha, 64.87 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Lisglassock 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.

• 14 Nov 2025Conditional

  a RED III Application for a 10 year planning permission with an operational lifespan of 40 years. The development applied for consisted of a solar farm and energy storage compound with a total area of circa 111.1ha. The proposed solar farm development spans a total site area measuring circa 94.18ha. The export capacity to the grid is estimated to be up to 80 MW. The development will consist of a solar farm comprising of: · Installation of approximately 700,000 sqm solar PV panel arrays, to include approximately 355,000 sqm of ground mounted panels supported by steel frame structures, and the remaining area as solar array row spacing. · Installation of approximately 18 MV stations. · An energy storage compound consisting of 56 no. containerised energy storage modules and associated plant and equipment. · Installation of underground cabling and ducting, comprising approximately 1.8 km along the R397 and L5527 public roads. · Provision of temporary site compounds, welfare facilities, and secure materials storage areas. · Construction of circa 3,800m internal access tracks throughout the site. · Erection of approximately 550 m of security fencing around the BESS compound and pole-mounted CCTV cameras for site monitoring. · Construction and operational access via two existing entrances on the R397 and L5527 roads. · Landscaping and biodiversity enhancement measures. The proposed development will also include drainage and all ancillary development works and apparatus necessary to facilitate the proposed development. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been submitted to the Planning Authority with the application. The application may also be viewed/downloaded on the following website; https://www.bnrgballymahon.com/

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2560265

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 Lisglassock.

Recorded monuments

• LF023-116 Wall monument (present location)
  Description

  Incorporated into a wall at the entrance to the farmyard adjacent to Lisglassock House. This rectangular plaque (H 0.63m; Wth 0.51m; T 0.12m) bears a Latin inscription, in Roman letters carved in relief, which reads: 'Faemina virque torus vivos quos / iunxerat unus uno hoc in tumulo / faemina virque jacent'. This has been translated as 'a wife and husband whom one bed had joined when alive lie in this one tomb a wife and husband' (English 1975, 158). On stylistic grounds it has been dated c. 1550-1600 (ibid.). Its original provenance is unknown. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 5 June 2013

Architectural heritage

• Lisglassock House, country house, house, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c. 1810 and possibly incorporating earlier fabric, with return and extension to rear (northwest). Now disused. Hipped natural slate roof with pair of ashlar limestone chimneystacks having terracotta chimney pots and cast-iron rainwater goods. Brick chimneystack and rendered chimneystack to rear return. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings with central Wyatt/tripartite window to central bay at first floor level, three-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows to remaining first floor window openings and timber casement windows to ground floor, all having tooled limestone sills. Paired two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to rear elevation (northwest) at Central round-headed door opening to main elevation (southeast) with timber panelled door flanked by sidelights and having wide timber spoked fanlight above. Square-headed door opening to northeast elevation with glazed timber door. Set back from road in mature grounds with lawned garden to front (southeast). Located to the southeast of Keenagh and to the northwest of Barry. Complex of single-storey outbuildings to the rear having pitched natural slate and corrugated-metal roofs, rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings with remains of two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and timber battened doors. Rubble limestone bellcote attached to the gable end of one outbuilding having cut stone coping over and remains of metal bell fittings. Rubble stone boundary walls to site; partially roughcast rendered rubble stone boundary wall to the northwest of house having integral square-headed pedestrian gateway. Main entrance gateway to the east, at start of long approach avenue to house, having remains of cast-iron gates and a modern mild steel farm gate.

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 Lisglassock, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1736 (ZIP).

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 Lisglassock with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Lisglassock · Lios Glasóg

Area

455,683 m² (45.57 ha, 112.6 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcommock, and its townlands

Barony

Shrule

Electoral division

Kilcommock, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,161 people lived in 410 households in the Kilcommock electoral division. 62% of households owned their home. 56% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barry, Cartronbrack, Lislea

Placenames

Lisglassock 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.