Lisryan
Townland in the civil parish of Street, barony of Ardagh, Co. Longford; in Irish Lios Riain
- Area
- 179 ha
- 442 acres
- Land parcels
- 78
- registered freehold, median 2,305 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
78 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisryan, from 5 m² to 290,716 m² (29.07 ha, 71.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Lisryan 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
10 Mar 2026Unconditional
of PL 21/126 - (A) proposed construction of a warehouse unit to be used in conjunction with existing onsite transport, logistics & warehousing company: (B) proposed alterations to the ground floor level of existing office/warehouse unit previously granted full planning permission under Pl04/1206 to include for the provision of additional office space together with alterations to the front façade of the building to facilitate same: (C) proposed removal of existing hedgerow along the site frontage & the proposed continuation of the existing front boundary wall along same and all ancillary site works
Extension of duration · Longford County Council, 2616
18 Mar 2021Conditional
proposed two storey dwelling, detached garage, formation of new entrance, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter area and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2178
4 Feb 2021Conditional
of PL16/187 - for the proposed construction of a two storey type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, proprietary wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary works
Extension of duration · Longford County Council, 2126
13 Aug 2020Conditional
1) proposed new slatted shed with creep area to the rear 2) proposed manure pit 3) general storage shed 4) retention permission of existing slatted shed and creep within farmyard and all ancillary drainage and site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 20182
18 Dec 2017Conditional
of an existing domestic garage, along with connections to all services and all other ancillary site works
Retention · Longford County Council, 17307
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 Lisryan.
Recorded monuments
- LF015-095 Enclosure
Description
Situated on reclaimed grassland. Outline of circular-shaped earthwork (diam. c. 43m) with drainage channels radiating outwards visible on Digital Globe aerial imagery taken 2011-13. Uncertain about antiquity of earthwork may be related to land reclamation channels which are visible radiating out from earthwork. Two buildings with associated garden plots depicted on this area on the first ed. OS 6-inch map. Circular-shaped earthwork may be related to these buildings and their attached boundary plots. See attached image from Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 7 April 2021
Architectural heritage
- Post box, 1935–1945 · Regional interest
Description
Segmental-headed cast-iron lamp box-type post box, erected c. 1940, having 'P&T' cipher/insignia in Gaelic script the front. Still in use. Mounted to a timber pole, adjacent at Lisryan Crossroad junction, and to the south of Granard. Sited outside shop and garage.
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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Lisryan.
- 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 Lisryan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.
The townland
- Name
- Lisryan · Lios Riain
- Area
- 1,790,409 m² (179.04 ha, 442.42 acres)
- Civil parish
- Street, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ardagh
- Electoral division
- Coolamber, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Coolamber electoral division: 397 people in 131 households; 88% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghareagh, Ballaghgowla and Froghan, Balloo, Castlenugent, Drumman, Kilfintan, Kilfintan Lower or Crancam, Lechurragh, Moneyhoolaghan
- Placenames
- Lisryan 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.