Liskenna

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Liskenna, from 2,645 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres) to 94,112 m² (9.41 ha, 23.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Liskenna 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Liskenna in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Liskenna.

Recorded monuments

• MO003-028 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a prominent rise. This is a subcircular grass-covered area (dims 34.8m N-S; 28.4m E-W) that is level and used as a garden, which is defined by an earthen bank that is largely reduced to t a scarp (H 1.2-1.8m) E-W. A farm lane skirts the perimeter S-W-N where the scarp is highest (H 2.3-3.8m). There is a farmhouse c. 20m to the N and steps lead up to the interior from a modern entrance at N. The original entrance may have been at ESE where the perimeter is lowest, and the monument is surrounded now by farm buildings N-E-S. 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: 25 July 2017

• MO003-029 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located just off the E edge of a shelf towards the bottom of the E-facing slope of N-S drumlin ridge. This is a circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 33m) that slopes down to the E, which is planted with coniferous trees and defined by an earthen bank (at NNW: Wth of base 5m; Wth of top 1.7m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.5m). There are traces of an external fosse (Wth of top 4m; Wth of base 2.4m; ext. D 0.45m) NW-N, which is re-cut as a drain E-S-NW. There are several gaps in the bank; that at SSE with a causeway may be modern but the entrance (Wth of base 2.3m), now blocked, at NE may be original. 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: 25 July 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Liskenna.

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

Name

Liskenna · Lios Geanach

Area

306,984 m² (30.7 ha, 75.86 acres)

Civil parish

Errigal Trough, and its townlands

Barony

Trough

Electoral division

Anketell Grove, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Anketell Grove electoral division: 1,278 people in 400 households; 86% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Dernalosset, Dundian, Glasmullagh, Killylaragh, Killyleck (Anketell)

Placenames

Liskenna 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.