Lisgormin

51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisgormin, from 178 m² to 67,823 m² (6.78 ha, 16.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Lisgormin 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.

• 20 Jun 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA ALONG WITH ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22509

• 23 Dec 2021Conditional

  RETENTION PERMISSION FOR A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, AND STORAGE SHED AS CONSTRUCTED ALONG WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS, PREVIOUS PLANNING P04/1841

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 211387

• 31 Mar 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DOMESTIC GARAGE AND STONE CLADDING TO THE EXISTING DWELLING TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 20220

• 24 Apr 2019Conditional

  Construction of a single storey detached dwelling house, proprietary wastewater treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19292

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 Lisgormin.

Recorded monuments

• MA071-065 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, located on top of a NNW−SSE ridge in sharply undulating, hilly landscape. There is a short, steep fall of ground into a wettish hollow to NE, beyond which ground rises again, and a similar fall of ground on the SW side towards a stream which is 125m to W. Views are good but not extensive. A farmstead/farmyard lies immediately to SW. Broadly oval platform (36m N−S; 30.3m E−W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.8m at NNW, 1.6m at S) at SE−SSW and at NNW−N, reduced elsewhere to a scarp (2.7m at NE, 2.9m at W). The bank/scarp was modified to serve as a field boundary in the relatively recent past, and is cut quite vertically on the external slope around most of the circuit, with remnants of stone facing, now largely tumbled, evident in parts. Field fences radiate out from the rath at NW, NE and SW. There are several narrow eroded gaps in the scarp (Wth c. 1m) at NE and S, and a larger break (Wth 2m) at NNW. According to local information, the interior was tilled and used as a garden plot in the past; traces of cultivation ridges oriented NW−SE axis can be seen. The perimeter is thickly ringed with hawthorn and blackthorn trees. Part of the ridge slope immediately to SW of the rath has been cut away. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 6 August 2021

• MA071-068 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, located on a rise. There is an abandoned vernacular farmstead immediately to E of the rath, access by a farm road which skirts the N−NE side of the rath. Raised circular area (26.7m N−S; 25.7m E−W) defined by a scarp (1.6m at E, 1.7m at W). The scarp retains a low internal lip (int. H 0.2m) for a short length at E, suggesting that the rath originally had an enclosing bank with a width of c. 3.5m. An outer ring of field fences box in the rath on all sides: A field fence, with a stone-faced external scarp, curves around the rath at S−NE at a fairly consistent distance (4-4.5m) outside the rath scarp, and a straight NNE−SSW field wall closes the gap on the E side. The curving field fence and the flat, intervening terrace-like gap between it and the rath scarp may preserve the curve of an original fosse and external bank. The entrance may be at SE where a low section of the scarp (H 0.5m) faces a natural rise or causeway-like feature leading away from the rath. The interior is level, and is traversed by remnants of cultivation ridges oriented NNE−SSW. A shallow depression (L 10.5m; Wth 3.6m; D 0.2m) in the SW quadrant may indicate the presence of a souterrain (MA071-038001-). The rath interior is grassy. There is a light growth of blackthorn bushes on the rath scarp, and the outer fence is thickly ringed with blackthorn and ash trees and brambles. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 6 August 2021

• MA071-068001 Souterrain
  Description

  In the SW quadrant of the rath (MA071-068----). A very shallow, grassed-over linear depression (Wth 3.6m; D 0.2m) extends from the rath scarp into the interior for 10.5m to the NE. Stones protrude from the sod at its SW end. Its significance is unclear, but it may be the remains of a souterrain. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 6 August 2021

Architectural heritage

• Tom's Cottage, farm house, 1700–1838 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey direct entry thatched farmhouse, extant 1838. Extensively renovated, 1998, to accommodate occasional use. Replacement pitched reed thatch roof with exposed lattice stretchers to raised ridge having exposed scallops, cement rendered chimney stack having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, and concrete coping to gables. Replacement cement rendered battered walls. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed opposing door openings with rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing replacement timber panelled doors. Set in landscaped grounds on a slightly elevated site.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, 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 Lisgormin.

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.

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

Name

Lisgormin · Lios Goirmín

Area

741,742 m² (74.17 ha, 183.29 acres)

Civil parish

Bohola, and its townlands

Barony

Gallen

Electoral division

Bohola, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Bohola electoral division: 325 people in 127 households; 81% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 24% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowcastle, Carrowgowan, Grallagh, Knockatemple, Rathrowan

Placenames

Lisgormin 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.