# Lisdoonan, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Donaghmoyne, barony of Farney, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Lios Dúnáin.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 641,986 m² (64.2 ha, 158.64 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,459 m² (0.35 ha, 0.85 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Donaghmoyne, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/donaghmoyne.md
- Barony: Farney
- Electoral division: Bocks, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 779 people lived in 246 households in the Bocks electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/39310
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 171341
- Centre: latitude 54.026794, longitude -6.755426 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisdoonan, from 113 m² to 116,709 m² (11.67 ha, 28.84 acres); 23 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 356596: 116,709 m² (11.67 ha, 28.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/356596.md
- Parcel 318300: 71,608 m² (7.16 ha, 17.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/318300.md
- Parcel 347163: 66,297 m² (6.63 ha, 16.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/347163.md
- Parcel 350898: 56,684 m² (5.67 ha, 14.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/350898.md
- Parcel 356685: 52,731 m² (5.27 ha, 13.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/356685.md
- Parcel 5822731: 41,434 m² (4.14 ha, 10.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5822731.md
- Parcel 330093: 40,930 m² (4.09 ha, 10.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/330093.md
- Parcel 357105: 36,473 m² (3.65 ha, 9.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/357105.md
- Parcel 4839379: 34,645 m² (3.46 ha, 8.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4839379.md
- Parcel 339254: 32,057 m² (3.21 ha, 7.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/339254.md
- Parcel 4839366: 21,278 m² (2.13 ha, 5.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4839366.md
- Parcel 336924: 12,830 m² (1.28 ha, 3.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/336924.md
- Parcel 351228: 8,767 m² (0.88 ha, 2.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/351228.md
- Parcel 323047: 6,919 m² (0.69 ha, 1.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/323047.md
- Parcel 318844: 5,153 m² (0.52 ha, 1.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/318844.md
- Parcel 2390583: 5,145 m² (0.51 ha, 1.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2390583.md
- Parcel 340712: 4,916 m² (0.49 ha, 1.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/340712.md
- Parcel 320349: 3,794 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/320349.md
- Parcel 324070: 3,540 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/324070.md
- Parcel 314714: 3,377 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/314714.md
- Parcel 320396: 2,513 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/320396.md
- Parcel 334136: 909 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/334136.md
- Parcel 344875: 887 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/344875.md
- Parcel 3351907: 827 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3351907.md
- Parcel 2390573: 795 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2390573.md
- Parcel 320063: 776 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/320063.md
- Parcel 337104: 734 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/337104.md
- Parcel 3354741: 650 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3354741.md
- Parcel 3358061: 539 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3358061.md
- Parcel 3351867: 470 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3351867.md
- Parcel 3352248: 449 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3352248.md
- Parcel 3354588: 446 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3354588.md
- Parcel 3354592: 428 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3354592.md
- Parcel 322341: 297 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/322341.md
- Parcel 3358041: 170 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3358041.md
- Parcel 5225066: 160 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5225066.md
- Parcel 323578: 122 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/323578.md
- Parcel 337319: 113 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/337319.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Lisdoonan 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)

2 applications, newest first.

- 27 Aug 2020, Monaghan County Council 20343: Refused. Retention. permission to retain existing mobile home (on a temporary basis), hardstanding gravel area and access to the site via the existing agricultural laneway from LT41013 and temporary planning permission for proposed onsite package wastewater treatment system & polishing unit, associated storm and foul drainage works, agricultural fence to site boundary and all other ancillary site works. Significant further information relates to the submission of a Traffic Survey Report.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/20343/0
- 22 Mar 2017, Monaghan County Council 17130: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission for a change of layout, design and increased ridge height from previously granted storey & a half style dwelling planning permission ref: 13/343 and all associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/17130/0

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## 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 Lisdoonan.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- MO028-059: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO028-059----. Located on top of a drumlin. This rath is depicted on McCrea’s map of County Monaghan (1793). It is an oval grass-covered area (dims 62m NE-SW; 52m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (at S: Wth 5.2m; int. H 1m; ext. H 2.6m) E-SW, which is incorporated into an overgrown earthen field bank (at N: Wth 4.6m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.7m) with an outer stone-facing elsewhere and forms the townland boundary with with Drumberagh SW-N. There is an outer fosse (Wth of top 5m; ext. D 0.8m) SE-WNW, with a slight outer bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.55m; ext. H 1.1m) SW-W. The entrance (Wth of base 3.2m) and causeway (Wth of top 3.3m; H 0.7m) are at SSE. 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: 6 December 2017
- MO028-061: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO028-061----. Located towards the SE tip though not the top of a NW-SE spur. This is a circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 38.4m WNW-ESE; 36.6m NNE-SSW) defined by two earth and stone banks with some bushes separated by a rounded fosse. The entrance through the inner (Wth of base 1.1m) and outer (Wth of base 2m) banks and a causeway (Wth of top 3.2m; H 0.9m) are at SE. An oval sunken area (dims c. 10m E-W) runs through the inner bank at WNW and may be the remains of a souterrain. The monument has become overgrown since 1967 (Bing 2013). 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: 6 December 2017
- MO028-144: Linear earthwork, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO028-144----. Situated on a rise in a low-lying area between drumlins. A substantial grass-covered earthen bank (L 35m; Wth 1m at W to 6m; at E; max. H c. 1.5m) with some bushes runs E-W. Date of revised upload: 12 December 2017
- MO028-148: Mass-rock (present location), https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO028-148----. Situated on a steep NE-facing slope and just SE of the Roman Catholic church of Lisdoonan. A fragment of a mill-wheel that was never completed is a D-shaped stone (max. dims 2.25m x 1.3m; T 0.2-0.25m) with an unfinished central perforation (diam. 0.4m) and an unfinished edge. It is set up on two boulders with a level upper surface (H 0.7-0.85m) that is inscribed with ‘Leac an Aifrinn’ and an expanding cross (H 0.26m; span 0.16m). This was done c. 1913 when it was set up here but its original location, thought to be the top of Dunaree (Ó Gallachair 1957, 115), is unlikely, although it may have been in that townland. See the attached view _1 from N Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 20 June, 2016

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)

- Saint Mary's Catholic Church, bell tower/stand, 1910–1930, Regional interest, registry number 41402822, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO&regno=41402822. Freestanding cast-iron bell stand, erected c.1920, to south of church, comprising four fluted round-plan cast-iron columns with relief acanthus ornamentation. Cast-iron bell. Elaborate bracket system with decorative crosses. Fabricated by M. Byrne, Dublin, with maker's marks. Column bases are set in a recent raised plinth with chamfered edges and stone cladding, dated 2000.

## 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 Lisdoonan, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lisdoonan.
- 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/lisdoonan.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/lisdoonan.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/lisdoonan.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

- Lisdoonan, Carrickmacross: 6 sales, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/lisdoonan-carrickmacross.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Aghacloghan: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/aghacloghan.md
- Cashlan East: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/cashlan-east.md
- Cashlan West: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/cashlan-west.md
- Drumberagh: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumberagh.md
- Drumlurg: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumlurg.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.

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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.

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