Liscumasky

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Liscumasky, from 295 m² to 77,259 m² (7.73 ha, 19.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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 Liscumasky 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.

• 2 Jan 2026Conditional

  planning permission for the retention of the existing domestic office building, pigeon loft and pigeon lookout cabin, all as built

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 2660001

• 28 Oct 2020Conditional

  Permission to construct a replacement dwelling, works include demolition of existing cottage and construction of a new two storey dwelling & single storey detached domestic garage with improvements to existing access lane way together with proposed new wastewater treatment system and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 20446

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 Liscumasky.

Recorded monuments

• MO013-034 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located at the E end of an E-W drumlin ridge. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 30m WNW-ESE; 27nm NNE-SSW) defined by an earthen bank (at N: Wth of base 3.5m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.5m) with some bushes, an outer fosse (at N: Wth of top 3.7m; Wth of base 1.8m; D 0.35m) WSW-N-SE and traces of an external bank (at N: Wth of base 3.5m; ext. H 0.5m) WSW-N-E. The original entrance (Wth 3.3m) is at E. A depression (dims 9m N-S; 2.5m E-W; D 0.5m) is inside the bank at W and breaches it at NNW. The monument has become overgrown since 1968 (OSAP 2000). 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 23 February 2018

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Liscumasky.

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Liscumasky.

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 Liscumasky with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Liscumasky · Lios Cumascaigh

Area

1,301,292 m² (130.13 ha, 321.56 acres)

Civil parish

Aghabog, and its townlands

Barony

Dartree

Electoral division

Drumhillagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drumhillagh electoral division: 716 people in 234 households; 92% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghaclay, Calliagh, Corleck, Drumlinny, Tattintlieve, Tonagh

Placenames

Liscumasky 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.