Lismanus
Townland in the civil parish of Mosstown, barony of Ardee, Co. Louth; in Irish Lios Mhánais
- Area
- 56.3 ha
- 139 acres
- Land parcels
- 40
- registered freehold, median 4,089 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lismanus, from 198 m² to 72,116 m² (7.21 ha, 17.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 Lismanus 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
11 Jun 2025Conditional
Permission consequent on the grant of outline permission Ref. No. 236/0266 for dwelling house, detached domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area, roadside vehicular entrance and all associated works
Permission consequent, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560360
3 Aug 2023Conditional
Outline permission for a proposed dwelling house, detached domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area, roadside vehicular entrance and all associated works *SFI received on 19.6.24 includes change of site boundaries*
Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2360266
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 Lismanus.
Recorded monuments
- LH018-038 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 Situated on top of slight natural rise. Sub-circular raised area (int. diam. 40m) defined by much degraded scarp (H c. 1m) with traces of fosse at the base of the platform on SE. Ditch at NW, referred to by Keenan (CLAJ 1942, 112), at foot of scarp is modern.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lismanus.
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, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lismanus.
- 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 Lismanus with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.
The townland
- Name
- Lismanus · Lios Mhánais
- Area
- 562,761 m² (56.28 ha, 139.06 acres)
- Civil parish
- Mosstown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ardee
- Electoral division
- Dunleer, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dunleer electoral division: 3,270 people in 1,088 households; 74% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cliven, Mosstown North, Puckstown, Rathescar Middle, Rathescar North, Woodhouse
- Placenames
- Lismanus 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.