# Lisnanore, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Tehallan, barony of Monaghan, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Lios na nDeoraí. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 201,104 m² (20.11 ha, 49.69 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,596 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications 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/41086 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 171390 - Centre: latitude 54.267672, longitude -6.928848 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisnanore, from 55 m² to 78,516 m² (7.85 ha, 19.4 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 357257: 78,516 m² (7.85 ha, 19.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/357257.md - Parcel 350129: 24,058 m² (2.41 ha, 5.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/350129.md - Parcel 328288: 11,816 m² (1.18 ha, 2.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/328288.md - Parcel 345588: 7,398 m² (0.74 ha, 1.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/345588.md - Parcel 4783492: 6,004 m² (0.6 ha, 1.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4783492.md - Parcel 329706: 2,596 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/329706.md - Parcel 5628404: 2,085 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5628404.md - Parcel 4783488: 197 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4783488.md - Parcel 4910638: 152 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4910638.md - Parcel 5099972: 115 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5099972.md - Parcel 5099973: 55 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5099973.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Lisnanore 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. - 18 Sept 2026, Monaghan County Council 2660403: N/a. Permission, 1 home. permission to construct a two storey dwellinghouse, single storey detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, use of existing entrance onto public road and all ancillary site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660403/0 - 1 Apr 2021, Monaghan County Council 218005: Conditional. Permission. permission to develop a greenway from Monaghan Town’s Coolshannagh roundabout (N2 junction with N12) to Ardgonnell Bridge, located on the border with Northern Ireland near the N12. The proposed greenway measures 7.3 kms in length and affects mainly rural land in both public and private ownership. It follows the route of the Ulster Canal as it proceeds alongside the N12 national primary road to Middletown, County Armagh. The proposed stretch of Greenway within Monaghan Town connects to the existing greenway near Coolshannagh roundabout and passes along the rear of Monaghan Institute on the N12 Armagh Road.The proposed greenway from Monaghan Town to the border passes through the following Townlands: An Tulaigh Thirim (Tullyhirm); Cnoc an Chonnaidh (Knockaconny); Droim Ruatach Drumrutagh); Droim Achaidh Chruitin (Drumacruttan); An Chorr Bheag (Corbeg); Cruail (Crowey); Sceith na gCeann (Skinnagin); Táite an Teampaill (Templetate); Tulaigh Loiscthe (Tullylish); Táite Mhuileann an Ūcaire (Tuckmilltate); Coill Uí Néill (Killyneill); Coillidh Liaf (Killeef) and Tamlacht (Tamlat). The proposed Greenway will consist of the following 5m corridor incorporating a pathway up to 3m wide with a drainage/buffer verge up to 1m on each side. The pathway will consist of an unbound, granular surface course of gravel and dust, with asphalt in certain locations such as road crossing points, stock proof timber fencing (1.2m tall) at each side of the greenway where appropriate, as well as chicane railings at road crossing points, four pedestrian timber footbridges for connectivity across the canal and watercourses, underpass guardrails at the following bridges: Drumratagh Bridge; Crowey Bridge; Glebe Bridge and Pipers Bridge, information boards at the termination point in Monaghan Town, together with way-marking and advanced warning signage for users along the route where appropriate, and all necessary associated site works such as route clearance, tree felling where unavoidable, drainage improvements, road junction improvements for pedestrians (dropped kerbs, tactile paving), site levelling/re-grading works and cut and fill earthworks.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/218005/0 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 Lisnanore. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MO009-029: Designed landscape - tree-ring, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO009-029----. Situated on top of a drumlin. A large wooded enclosure is depicted on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map, and it is described as ‘Lisnanore Fort’ in gothic lettering on the 1907 edition. This is circular grass-covered area (diam. 73m E-W; 68.5m N-S) that slopes down slightly to the S. It is defined by a scarp (at WSW: Wth 1.4m; H 1.6m) with a stone-facing (at WSW: H 1m) at the base of the scarp that creates a berm (at WSW: Wth 1.5m) above it W-N-SE. There is an outer fosse or trench (Wth of top 3.7m; Wth of base 1.9m; ext. D 1.2m) functioning as a track N-SE, and there is a wide entrance (Wth 9.8m) at SE. Beech trees are planted at the top of the scarp and there are oak trees inside them. There is a tower windmill at the centre. This is on the demesne of Bessmount House, which is c. 800m to the SW, and is matched by the large enclosure at Eden Island (MO009-006----) c. 700m to the W. 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) - Mill (wind), 1770–1810, Regional interest, registry number 41400924, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41400924. Freestanding round-plan three-stage windmill, built c.1790. Now ruinous and roofless. Rubble limestone walls. Gauged stone square-headed door openings to south-west and north-east elevations. Square-headed loop window openings above doors to first floor. Socket holes for stairs and position of floors visible to interior. Sited within ringfort. ## 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 Lisnanore, about 1 in 5 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 low. - 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/lisnanore.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/lisnanore.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/lisnanore.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Lisnanore 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) - Cavanreagh: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/cavanreagh-170279.md - Corbeg: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/corbeg.md - Crowey: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/crowey.md - Drumacruttan: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumacruttan-170743.md - Drumrutagh: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumrutagh.md - Liscarney: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/liscarney.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/lisnanore - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/lisnanore