Lisnaguiveragh
Townland in the civil parish of Magheross, barony of Farney, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Lios na gCuibhreach
- Area
- 72.6 ha
- 179 acres
- Land parcels
- 17
- registered freehold, median 35,342 m² (3.53 ha, 8.73 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisnaguiveragh, from 2,382 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres) to 177,266 m² (17.73 ha, 43.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Lisnaguiveragh 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
3 Oct 2025Conditional
planning Permission to construct a part two storey, part single storey detached dwelling, detached domestic garage, new vehicular entrance onto public roadway, driveway, waste water treatment system, percolation area, landscaping, boundaries and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2560398
30 Mar 2023Refused
permission for a single storey dwelling, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, boundary fencing, new domestic entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2360031
20 Sept 2019Conditional
permission for a development consisting of the construction of a single storey house, waste water treatment system and percolation unit, domestic garage, boundary fencing, a new entrance on to the public road and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19447
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 Lisnaguiveragh.
Recorded monuments
- MO028-106 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located at the E end of a W-E undulating ridge. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 40m NE-SW; 37m NW-SE) that slopes down (H 3.2m) to the NE. It is defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 4.4-6.5m; int. H 0.8-1m; ext. H 1.8-2m), with an outer fosse (at SW: Wth of top 6.6m; Wth of base 2.5m; ext. D 0.6m), which has largely been re-cut as a drain (at NE: Wth of top 2m; D 0.7m). There is an entrance (Wth of base 2m) and causeway (Wth of top 2.2m; H 0.5m) at E. 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: 8 December 2017
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lisnaguiveragh.
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
- About 1 in 10 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2609 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Lisnaguiveragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Lisnaguiveragh · Lios na gCuibhreach
- Area
- 725,549 m² (72.55 ha, 179.29 acres)
- Civil parish
- Magheross, and its townlands
- Barony
- Farney
- Electoral division
- Carrickmacross Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Carrickmacross Rural electoral division: 4,291 people in 1,518 households; 63% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Beagh, Coolfore, Drumbroagh, Drumgowna, Greaghnaroog, Legghimore
- Placenames
- Lisnaguiveragh 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.