Clonlisk

57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clonlisk, from 72 m² to 208,329 m² (20.83 ha, 51.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Clonlisk 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.

• 13 Jun 2025Conditional

  a single storey dwelling house, garage, site entrance, septic tank with percolation area and all ancillary associated site works.

  Permission, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 2560235

• 29 May 2025N/a

  a single storey dwelling house, garage, site entrance, septic tank with percolation area and all ancillary associated site works

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560207

• 20 May 2025N/a

  a single storey dwelling house, garage, site entrance, septic tank with percolation area and all ancillary associated site works

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560180

• 3 Feb 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF (I) CUBICLES SHED WITH UNDERGROUND EFFLUENT TANKS (II) SILAGE SLAB WITH EFFLUENT TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SILAGE SLAB IS ALSO REQUIRED

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2339

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 Clonlisk.

Recorded monuments

• OF045-002 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  No surface remains visible of the O'Carrroll castle, located in the ancient territory of Éile. In the year 1541 the Annals of the Four Masters record that 'O'Carroll (Ferganainm, the son of Mulrony) was treacherously slain (he being blind) by Teige, the son of Donough, son of John O'Carroll, and his kinsmen, and by the son of O'Molloy (John, the son of Donnell Caech), in the castle of Cluain-lisg [Clonlisk]; but though O'Carroll was an old man, he, nevertheless, displayed great prowess and strength in defending himself against his slayers, which gained him a name and renown. Twelve of his people were killed along with him'. According to Cooke there was a room in the castle known as the 'Chamber Arrigett' that may have been a secret chamber where money and valuables were storey acting as a treasury room for the O'Carroll's (Cooke 1875, 222-3). In 1639 Sir William Parsons of Birr and Captain William Paisley attacked Clonlisk Castle and found a quantity of muskets and pikes and a secret chamber, which had been used in former times for coining money (Hitchcock 1908, 187). Clonlisk Castle is depicted as a tall rectangular-shaped house standing beside as smaller house (OF045-043----) on the 17th century Down Survey map of Kilcomin Parish (NLI, MS 716). On this map a watermill (OF045-043----) is depicted standing on the S bank of a stream a short distance to the S of Clonlisk Castle The terrier of the Down Survey parish map of Kilcomin recorded that, 'there are two small Rivoletts passing though it on which stands two Mills one at Clonlisk and one at Kilcomin [OF041-005----] where likewise there are the walls of a Church [OF041-004----] and a Castle at Clonelisk with an Irishtowne' (ibid.). In 1641 the castle and watermill of Clonlisk stood on lands belonging to the Irish Papist, John Carroll of Clonlisk Castle. See attached Down Survey parish map showing Clonlisk Castle standing beside a house (OF045-042----) with watermill to S at Clonlisk, courtesy of the National Library of Ireland. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 6 October 2022

• OF045-046 Bullaun stone
  Description

  Situated on top of a low hillock in undulating countryside. Embedded in the bank of a field boundary hedgerow. A large roughly square-shaped red sandstone boulder (H 1.1m x Wth 1.2m) with two deep depressions (diam. 0.35m x D 0.25m; diam. 0.45m ; D 0.25m) on the surface between which there is a third shallow depression (diam. 0.2m; D 0.05m). The latter depression may be the result of water erosion, while the two deep depressions have been formed as the result of the grinding process. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Architectural heritage

• Clonlisk Bridge, bridge, 1855–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch masonry railway bridge, built c.1863, carrying a minor road over the Ballybrophy Limerick railway line. Erected by the Great Southern and Western Railway. Roughly dressed sandstone blocks randomly laid with rusticated quoins to abutments. Segmental profile arch with rusticated voussoirs. Finely dressed string courses and parapets with dressed coping stones.

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

At the centre of the townland of Clonlisk, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Clonlisk with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Clonlisk · Cluain Leisc

Area

1,892,431 m² (189.24 ha, 467.63 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcomin, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlisk

Electoral division

Mountheaton, the unit of the census

Census 2022

665 people lived in 179 households in the Mountheaton electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyclery, Ballyrihy, Ballywilliam, Boultry, Corraclevin, Franckfort, Glasshouse, Newtown

Placenames

Clonlisk 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.