Lissagernal
Lissagernal is a townland in the civil parish of Clongesh, barony of Longford, Co. Longford. Its name in Irish is Lios na gCoirnéal.
- Area
- 91.2 ha
- 225 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 41,973 m² (4.2 ha, 10.37 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lissagernal, from 1,160 m² to 109,460 m² (10.95 ha, 27.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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 Lissagernal 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
No planning application touches the townland of Lissagernal in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Forbes Complex SAC 001818
- Special Protection Area: Ballykenny-Fisherstown Bog SPA 004101
- Natural Heritage Area: Rinn River NHA 000691
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Forbes Complex 001818
Recorded monuments
- LF008-005 Ringfort - rath
Description
Immediately to the SE of the highest point of a prominent rise. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. The monument was levelled in 1976 (SMR file) and is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lissagernal.
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 Lissagernal, about 1 in 20 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. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lissagernal.
- 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 Lissagernal with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.
The townland
- Name
- Lissagernal · Lios na gCoirnéal
- Area
- 911,785 m² (91.18 ha, 225.31 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clongesh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Longford
- Electoral division
- Newtown Forbes, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 985 people lived in 411 households in the Newtown Forbes electoral division. 65% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Castleforbes Demesne, Clooniher, Deerpark, Kilmacannon
- Placenames
- Lissagernal 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.