# Liscarney, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Tehallan, barony of Monaghan, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Lios Carnaí. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 256,488 m² (25.65 ha, 63.38 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,828 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Tehallan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/tehallan.md - Barony: Monaghan - Electoral division: Tehallan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 905 people lived in 307 households in the Tehallan electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41085 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 171334 - Centre: latitude 54.262728, longitude -6.928351 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Liscarney, from 511 m² to 3,406 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres); 9 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5419965: 3,406 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5419965.md - Parcel 341410: 2,292 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/341410.md - Parcel 315574: 2,201 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/315574.md - Parcel 317765: 1,946 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/317765.md - Parcel 329705: 1,902 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/329705.md - Parcel 335378: 1,755 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/335378.md - Parcel 331330: 855 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/331330.md - Parcel 316814: 852 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/316814.md - Parcel 340370: 848 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/340370.md - Parcel 345589: 511 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/345589.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Liscarney in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 4 Dec 2018, Monaghan County Council 18562: Conditional. Permission. permission for the construction of a 38kv electricity substation, switchroom and equipment compound with palisade fence; the construction of approximately 400m of site access track and the upgrading of approximately 150m of existing agricultural track and an existing agricultural site entrance; approximately 200m of underground cabling and all associated site development and reinstatement works in the townland of Luppan, County Monaghan; and (ii) the installation of approximately 22km of 38kV electricity cables from the proposed substation to the existing electricity substation in the townland of Lisdrumdoagh, County Monaghan. The electricity cables will comprise approximately 17km of overhead line and approximately 5 km of underground line. Overhead lines will consist of 3 no. cables suspended from wooden poles with a maximum height of 16 metres, and all associated site development and reinstatement works. Underground cables will be located within private lands and within the public roads numbered L5171, L1400 and L1171; will be installed in excavated trenches of approximately 1.2m in depth and will include associated underground ducting, joint bays, communication chamber bays, sheath link boxes and inspection chambers; directional drilling beneath the N12 and Ulster Canal and all associated site development and reinstatement works. A vehicle access track of up to 4m in width will be provided immediately adjacent to underground cables with private lands. This planning application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Report which includes an assessment of the likely impacts of the proposed development, as a whole and in combination with the relevant off-site or secondary developments which will occur as a direct result of the proposed development, including the wind farm development permitted pursuant to Monaghan County Council Planning Register Reference 10/110 & An Bord Pleanála Reference PL18.240760 and proposed to be amended by planning reference 17/258 & An Bord Pleanála Reference PL18.300998 (currently under construction). A Natura Impact Statement will also be submitted to the planning authority with the planning application. This application is accompanied by an EIAR. Significant Further information has been submitted.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/18562/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Liscarney. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MO009-031: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO009-031----. Located just S of the summit of a drumlin. This is a circular grass-covered orchard (diam. 41.6m NE-SW; 40m NW-SE) defined by a scarp (at SSW: Wth 2m; H 2m) and an outer fosse (at SSW: Wth of top 8m; Wth of base 5m; ext. D 0.2m) NE-S-NW, but the perimeter is reduced to a shallow fosse (Wth of top 8.5m; int. D 0.5m; ext. D 0.2m) NW-NE and occupied by a lane NE-SE. The original entrance is not identified. Liscarney House is c. 80m to the NE and its farm buildings are just to the NE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 13 December 2017 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Liscarney House, house, 1780–1900, Regional interest, registry number 41400933, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41400933. Detached irregular-plan two-storey four-bay house, built c.1800 and remodelled c.1880, with attic, having projecting end-bay to north-west elevation, and central return and single-storey extension to rear (south-west) elevation. Slate roof, hipped to return and south-east elevation, pitched to north-west. Overhanging eaves with timber eaves brackets, red brick chimneystacks, and mixed cast-iron and replacement rainwater goods. Decorative timber bargeboards to pitched roof. Coursed rubble sandstone and limestone to front, rear and south-east elevations, random rubble cladding to north-west elevation and rear of return, roughly squared block-and-start quoins. Gauged brick square-headed window openings throughout, having red brick block-and-start surrounds, replacement uPVC windows imitating six-over-six pane timber sliding sash. Tooled stone sills to front, masonry sills to sides and rear. Gauged-brick round-headed window opening to rear return, masonry sill, brick surround and replacement uPVC window. Gauged-brick square-headed door opening to north-west elevation of main block to front, single-leaf timber panelled door having overlight and red brick block-and-start surrounds, opening onto render platform. Gauged-brick square-headed door and window openings to rear of extension and to south-east of return with red-brick surrounds, replacement uPVC doors and windows. Six-bay two-storey outbuilding, adjoining north-west elevation of house, to rear, with pitched corrugated-iron roof and coursed rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings having render sills, red brick surrounds, gauged-brick segmental-headed openings, all openings blocked. Coursed rubble wall enclosing yard to rear with double-leaf steel gate. Coursed rubble stone wall and hedge enclosing garden to front of house, single-leaf wrought-iron gate flanked by fluted cast-iron columns to wall to south-east of house. Three-bay single-storey gate lodge to road entrance, with pitched tiled roof having red-clay ridge tile ridge cresting and finials, rendered walls, gabled porch with red-clay tile cresting, polychrome walls with limestone plinth blocks and replacement timber door and uPVC windows. Gateway comprises square-plan polychrome brick piers with ovolo moulding to corners, chamfered plinths and caps, and decorative double-leaf wrought-iron gate, flanked by polychrome brick walling. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Liscarney, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2373, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2373.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/liscarney.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/liscarney.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/liscarney.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Liscarney with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan: https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Aghnasedagh: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/aghnasedagh.md - Carn: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/carn-170228.md - Cavanreagh: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/cavanreagh-170279.md - Drumrutagh: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumrutagh.md - Lisnanore: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/lisnanore.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/liscarney - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/liscarney