# Lisheen, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Eglish, barony of Eglish, Co. Offaly; in Irish An Lisín. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,688,230 m² (168.82 ha, 417.17 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,445 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): R2 Existing Residential, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Eglish, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/eglish.md - Barony: Eglish - Electoral division: Birr Rural, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Birr Rural electoral division: 1,300 people in 478 households; 75% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41188 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180907 - Centre: latitude 53.104453, longitude -7.881497 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisheen, from 401 m² to 801,245 m² (80.12 ha, 197.99 acres); 34 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 303377: 801,245 m² (80.12 ha, 197.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/303377.md - Parcel 4816493: 325,791 m² (32.58 ha, 80.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4816493.md - Parcel 295458: 122,984 m² (12.3 ha, 30.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/295458.md - Parcel 5528810: 65,815 m² (6.58 ha, 16.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5528810.md - Parcel 296831: 63,660 m² (6.37 ha, 15.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/296831.md - Parcel 277791: 46,976 m² (4.7 ha, 11.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277791.md - Parcel 5528808: 44,014 m² (4.4 ha, 10.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5528808.md - Parcel 293837: 7,842 m² (0.78 ha, 1.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/293837.md - Parcel 5184522: 4,780 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5184522.md - Parcel 278363: 3,199 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/278363.md - Parcel 5739766: 3,185 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5739766.md - Parcel 275059: 3,142 m² (0.31 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/275059.md - Parcel 307671: 3,097 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307671.md - Parcel 277867: 2,445 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277867.md - Parcel 286974: 2,248 m² (0.22 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/286974.md - Parcel 297182: 2,223 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/297182.md - Parcel 294115: 2,058 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/294115.md - Parcel 290686: 1,933 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/290686.md - Parcel 296572: 1,919 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/296572.md - Parcel 276619: 1,823 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/276619.md - Parcel 281916: 1,823 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/281916.md - Parcel 297154: 1,420 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/297154.md - Parcel 298211: 1,325 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/298211.md - Parcel 276699: 1,306 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/276699.md - Parcel 277418: 793 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/277418.md - Parcel 298411: 752 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/298411.md - Parcel 294954: 401 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/294954.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - R2 Existing Residential (Existing residential): Birr Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Offaly; 1 parcel. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.offaly.ie/app/uploads/Council/Council_Services_A-Z/Planning_Building/The-Birr-Local-Area-Plan-2023-2029.pdf#page=158 - C3 Enterprise and Employment (Office, business/technology park and related): Birr Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Offaly; 1 parcel. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.offaly.ie/app/uploads/Council/Council_Services_A-Z/Planning_Building/The-Birr-Local-Area-Plan-2023-2029.pdf#page=160 ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 7 May 2021, Offaly County Council 21288: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/21288/0 - 26 Apr 2021, Offaly County Council 21258: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. MOBILE HOME / TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION. PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A PROPOSED TWO-STOREY DWELLING AND DOMESTIC GARAGE, A PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA, ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS, INCLUDING A PROPOSED SITE ENTRANCE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/21258/0 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 Lisheen. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - OF035-015: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF035-015----. This site was bulldozed in the 1960s, according to local information the site consisted of a small enclosure 20-30ft. in diameter with no signs of an enclosing bank, with whitethorn bushes growing around it. Hachured as circular enclosure on the 1912 edition of the OS 6-inch map. 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. Date of upload: 23 May 2011 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lisheen. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: Susceptibility 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_1646, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1646.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/offaly/lisheen.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/lisheen.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/lisheen.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Lisheen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly: https://everytownland.com/offaly.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballywilliam: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballywilliam-180221.md - Bogderries: https://everytownland.com/offaly/bogderries.md - Clonoghil Lower: https://everytownland.com/offaly/clonoghil-lower.md - Clonoghil Upper: https://everytownland.com/offaly/clonoghil-upper.md - Killaun: https://everytownland.com/offaly/killaun.md - Townparks: https://everytownland.com/offaly/townparks-181132.md - Woodfield or Tullynisk: https://everytownland.com/offaly/woodfield-or-tullynisk.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/offaly/lisheen - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/lisheen