Lisnagon
Lisnagon is a townland in the civil parish of Kilskeer, barony of Kells Upper, Co. Meath.
- Area
- 112.3 ha
- 278 acres
- Land parcels
- 17
- registered freehold, median 34,469 m² (3.45 ha, 8.52 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisnagon, from 2,983 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres) to 220,241 m² (22.02 ha, 54.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 35 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
6 Jun 2025Conditional
permission to construct a storey and a half extension to rear of existing derelict dwelling house, construct a domestic garage, install new sewage treatment system with percolation area and construct new entrance to site
Permission · Meath County Council, 2560568
25 Oct 2024Conditional
the development will consist of the following: (1) Renovation works to existing single storey semi-derelict dwelling to include a new roof as well as internal and elevational alterations (2) the construction of a storey and a half extension to the side of existing dwelling (3) to install a new proprietary waste water treatment unit and percolation area (4) to close up existing agricultural field entrance and construct a new entrance onto the road ( 5) and all ancillary site works
Permission · Meath County Council, 2460892
22 Feb 2019Conditional
(1) Conversion of existing single storey habitable dwelling to domestic storage building. (2) Construction of a replacement 2 storey dwelling in lieu of existing single storey habitable dwelling (3) detached single storey domestic garage, (4) proprietary treatment system and percolation area, (5) All ancillary site works.
Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, KA190188
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 Lisnagon.
Recorded monuments
- ME010-018 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a rise in an undulating landscape. This is a raised, subcircular, grass and scrub-covered area (dims 45m NW-SE; 40.5m NE-SW) defined by a broad earthen bank or more generally by an overgrown fosse (Wth of top 7-8m; Wth of base 1.5-2m; int. D 2.3-2.4m; ext. D 1.3-1.4m), which is filled in with field stones NW-N. There is an outer counterscarp bank (Wth of base 7m; ext. H 0.9m) N-SE. A WNW-ESE filed bank bisects the monument. The entrance (Wth of base 1.8m) and causeway (Wth of top 4m; H 0.4-1m) are at SE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 22 February 2019 Amended: 15 December 2022
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lisnagon.
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 Lisnagon, about 1 in 10 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lisnagon.
- 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 Lisnagon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Lisnagon
- Area
- 1,123,110 m² (112.31 ha, 277.53 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilskeer, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kells Upper
- Electoral division
- Castlekeeran, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 513 people lived in 169 households in the Castlekeeran electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballaghdorragh (Co. Cavan), Clonasillagh, Kingsmountain, Rahard, Ryefield (Co. Cavan), Stonefield
- Placenames
- Lisnagon 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.