Lislea
Lislea is a townland in the civil parish of Carlingford, barony of Dundalk Lower, Co. Louth. Its name in Irish is An Lios Liath.
- Area
- 223.5 ha
- 552 acres
- Land parcels
- 127
- registered freehold, median 3,504 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 18
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
127 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lislea, from 16 m² to 88,647 m² (8.86 ha, 21.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 55 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 Lislea 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
23 Sept 2026N/a
Permission for an extension (part single storey, part storey and half style), alterations to an existing dwelling house, a new attached domestic garage and associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2660652
27 Aug 2026N/a
Permission consists of the demolition of a former boat house / agricultural shed and replacement with a detached single storey dwelling house. The proposal also includes the installation of a proprietary waste-water treatment system, including a percolation area, treatment plant and decommissioning and removal of the existing septic tank, proposed vehicular site entrance to facilitate the proposed development and all associated landscaping site works required to facilitate the development. As part of the Application, a Stage 2 Appropriate Assessment (Natura Impact Statement) has been submitted.
Permission · Louth County Council, 2660580
25 Mar 2025Refused
Outline permission for development to comprise new dwelling house, effluent treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2534
23 Sept 2024Conditional
Retention of sun room extension to side of existing dwelling house and all associated site development works
Retention · Louth County Council, 2460563
10 Feb 2023Refused
Permission for a new dwelling house, domestic garage and effluent treatment plant with percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 2361
27 Jul 2022Refused
Permission for the development of a new dwelling house, domestic garage and effluent treatment plant and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Louth County Council, 22601
9 Jun 2022N/a
Permission for a new dwelling house, domestic garage and effluent treatment plant and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 22467
6 Apr 2022Conditional
Permission for adaptions to existing dwelling house to include, new entrance porch arrangement with skylight, new dormer extension and new external insulation upgrade and timber cladding. Window openings to be adapted and upgraded. Internally small adaptions to accommodate changes to new layout. Existing onsite septic system & landscaping unaffected. **Significant further information received on 14.9.22**
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22273
8 Feb 2022N/a
permission for adaptions to existing dwelling house to include new entrance porch arrangement with skylight, new dormer extension and new external insulation upgrade and timber cladding. Window openings to be adapted and upgraded. Internally small adaptions to accommodate changes to new layout. Existing onsite septic system and landscaping unaffected
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2295
12 Jul 2021Conditional
Permission for a dwelling house, effluent treatment plant and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21859
10 Jun 2021N/a
Outline permission for development that will consist of a dwelling house, wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21724
11 May 2021N/a
Outline permission sought for a dwelling house, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21559
23 Nov 2020Conditional
Permission for the demolition of existing dwelling and erection of new storey and a half replacement dwelling, single storey domestic garage, waste water treatment system and associated site works. *Significant Further Information received on 01/06/2021*
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 20984
8 May 2020Conditional
Retention & Permission: Retention and completion of the conversion/extension of an attached domestic garage to living accommodation and associated site development works
Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 20322
27 Aug 2019Conditional
Permission for proposed alterations to existing dwelling to include replacement windows, external doors & external render, erection of new single storey rear extension single storey front porch extension, erection of single storey domestic garage and associated site works.
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 19689
23 Jul 2019N/a
Permission for proposed alterations to existing dwelling to include replacement windows, external doors & external render, erection of new single storey rear extension, single storey front porch extension, erection of single storey domestic garage and associated site works.
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 19587
12 Oct 2017Conditional
The development consists of one domestic shed/workshop to side of existing dwelling house and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 17769
8 May 2017Conditional
Retention permission for development that consists of roof windows to rear elevations, the conversion of attic space to living accommodation, the construction of a mezzanine floor and all ancillary works.
Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 17334
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
The National Parks and Wildlife Service did not answer.
Recorded monuments
- LH002-005 Ringfort - rath
Description
The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Circular area (int. diam. 32.5m) enclosed by much-degraded earthen bank now reduced to a scarp. No visible trace of fosse or ancient entrance. Site badly mutilated by cultivation ridges.
- LH002-009 Ringfort - rath
Description
The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Roughly circular area (int. diams. 24m N-S, 20m E-W) enclosed by earth and stone bank (Wth 3.5m, H c. 1.2m) with internal stone facing from SSE-S. Bank gapped in several places but with no recognisable ancient entrance. No visible fosse.
Architectural heritage
The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage did not answer.
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
- The EPA radon map did not answer.
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lislea.
- 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
- Lislea, Omeath6 sales
The townland
- Name
- Lislea · An Lios Liath
- Area
- 2,235,120 m² (223.51 ha, 552.31 acres)
- Civil parish
- Carlingford, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dundalk Lower
- Electoral division
- Drummullagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,505 people lived in 527 households in the Drummullagh electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 14% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardaghy, Cornamucklagh, Drummullagh, Ravensdale Park
- Placenames
- Lislea 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.