Lisnabo

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisnabo, from 771 m² to 227,989 m² (22.8 ha, 56.34 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Lisnabo 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.

• 16 May 2025Conditional

  proposed construction of a two storey type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable onsite treatment system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2560099

• 21 Dec 2022Conditional

  A) Proposed renovation & extension of existing two storey type dwelling house to include proposed alterations to existing facades. B) Proposed change of use of existing dwelling house into a bed and breakfast accommodation. C) Proposed construction of a storage shed to service same and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 22295

• 17 Sept 2021Refused

  for proposed construction of a detached storage shed & all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 21268

• 23 Oct 2020Conditional

  demolition of existing single storey type dwelling house and the proposed decommissioning of existing septic tank & soak pit servicing same together with the proposed construction of a bungalow type dwelling house with attached sun lounge, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable onsite wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 20242

• 23 Jan 2020Conditional

  proposed construction of a two storey type dwelling house with detached garage, entrance, boundary wall/fence, septic tank with percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2012

• 16 Oct 2019Conditional

  proposed construction of a bungalow type dwelling house, with detached garage, entrance, boundary wall/fence, suitable on site sewerage system with percolation area and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 19264

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 Lisnabo.

Recorded monuments

• LF008-028 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On an E-facing slope in pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A raised roughly circular area ( 31.5m N-S; c. 30m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.9-1.4m) with a wide, shallow, external fosse (Wth 6m; D 0.6-0.9m) which is identifiable from S-N-NE. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Lisnabo School, school, 1800–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay two-storey former Church of Ireland school on U-shaped plan, built c. 1815, having six-bay two-storey front elevation (southeast), three-bay two-storey return to the southwest and a single-storey range to the northeast. Single-bay single-storey gabled porch to the front elevation (southeast) and storey lean-to return to the rear of the main block (southeast). Formerly also contained accommodation for teaching staff and school master. Now a private house. Hipped natural slate roof to main block having two rendered chimneystacks to the rear pitch; hipped and pitched roofs to returns. Painted smooth rendered walls over painted plinth. Square-headed window openings with replacement timber casement windows and painted stone sills. Round-headed door opening to the southwest side of porch with replacement timber panelled door and overlight. Set within extensive grounds to the south of Newtown-Forbes. Entrance gates to the south.

• Water pump, 1870–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron water pump, erected c. 1885. Comprising banded shaft with fluting to spout, decorative fluted cap and finial, and with curved pumping arm. Set on concrete base with drain to front (north) and with rendered wall to the south. Located to the south of Newtown-Forbes, and across the road to the south of the former Church of Ireland school at Lisnabo (13400817).

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 Lisnabo, 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.

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

Name

Lisnabo · Lios na Bó

Area

501,245 m² (50.12 ha, 123.86 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.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballykenny, Caldragh, Cleggill, Lismore, Tully

Placenames

Lisnabo 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.