Lismore
Lismore is a townland in the civil parish of Clongesh, barony of Longford, Co. Longford. Its name in Irish is An Lios Mór.
- Area
- 61.3 ha
- 151 acres
- Land parcels
- 31
- registered freehold, median 4,021 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lismore, from 973 m² to 114,584 m² (11.46 ha, 28.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Lismore 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
17 Dec 2025Refused
additional works and design changes carried out during the refurbishment and extension of Lismore House (Planning Ref. No. 23-60243). These works relate to a protected structure (RPS 375)
Retention · Longford County Council, 2560301
2 Oct 2025Conditional
of existing entrance that is servicing existing dwelling house that was granted full planning permission under planning reference number PL 23/60045 together with seeking full planning permission for the completion of same and all ancillary works
Retention · Longford County Council, 2560219
22 Dec 2023Conditional
to carry out refurbishment works to an existing two-storey farmhouse, to remove previous extensions and construct a two-storey extension to the rear (north-west) of same, to upgrade/replace the existing sewerage treatment system and to carry out necessary ancillary site works. The proposed works relate to a protected structure (RPS 375)
Permission · Longford County Council, 2360243
9 Jun 2023Conditional
construction of a two storey dwelling house, onsite wastewater treatment system with percolation area, boundary fence/wall, new entrance and ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2360045
9 Dec 2021Conditional
to demolish an existing cottage (40sq.m) and to replace it with a similar style, single storey dwelling (120sq.m), to connect to existing services, to construct roadside boundary walls and entrance gate, and to carry out necessary ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 21340
21 May 2021Conditional
proposed renovation and extension to existing two storey type dwelling house and all ancillary works
Permission · Longford County Council, 21150
12 Aug 2020Conditional
proposed construction of a two storey dwelling with single storey annex, roadside entrance, boundary fence, installation of a wastewater treatment system with percolation area, connection to existing services and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 20179
4 Jul 2018Conditional
the proposed renovation and extension to existing two storey type dwelling house and all ancillary works
Permission · Longford County Council, 18149
16 Jun 2017Conditional
proposed construction of a two storey type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, septic tank and percolation area and all ancillary site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 17168
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 Lismore.
Recorded monuments
- LF013-007001 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a low but prominent drumlin ridge in pasture. A raised oval area (49.3m N-S; 40.2m E-W) enclosed by a much-denuded, low bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.4m; H 0.7m max.). Traces of the outline of a wide infilled external fosse (Wth 2.3m) are evident. The original entrance is not recognisable. The SW quadrant of the interior is largely occupied by an irregularly shaped enclosure (LF013-007002-). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF013-007002 Enclosure
Description
Within the SW quadrant of a rath (LF013-007001-). An irregular enclosure (22.1m NNE–SSW; 20.9m NNW–SSE) defined by the remains of a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 1.9m; max. H 0.2m). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 28 January 2012
- LF013-008 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a steep SW-facing slope in pasture overlooking an extensive area of low-lying ground. A raised subcircular area (38.7m NE-SW; 34.9m NW-SE) enclosed by a much-denuded, low bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.9m; H 1.3m max.) with an infilled external fosse (Wth 2.9m). There are modern entrances at NNW and SE. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
- House, 1920–1940 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1930, having flat-roofed single-bay single-storey entrance porch to the centre of the front elevation (southwest). Pitched natural slate roof with painted rendered chimneystacks with moulded heads to either gable end and cast-iron rainwater goods. Raised rendered verges to either end having rendered coping over. Painted lined-and-ruled rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, paired one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to ground floor, all having stone sills. Square-headed door opening to southeast side of porch with replacement door. Set back from road in own grounds to the northwest of Longford Town. Wrought-iron double-leaf flat bar gates to site boundary (west).
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 Lismore, 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1694 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Lismore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.
The townland
- Name
- Lismore · An Lios Mór
- Area
- 612,899 m² (61.29 ha, 151.45 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clongesh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Longford
- Electoral division
- Caldragh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,690 people lived in 937 households in the Caldragh electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 55% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Lismore 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.