Lisheen
Townland in the civil parish of Eglish, barony of Eglish, Co. Offaly; in Irish An Lisín
Parcel 299207
- Area
- 112,817 m² (11.28 ha, 27.88 acres)
- Buildings
- 4 buildings touch it, 297 m² on the ground
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Lisheen
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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_1645 (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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 168.8 ha
- 417 acres
- Land parcels
- 27
- registered freehold, median 2,445 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
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). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 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
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Birr Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Offaly · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C3Enterprise and Employment (Office, business/technology park and related)
Birr Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Offaly · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
7 May 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21288
26 Apr 2021Conditional
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
Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21258
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 Lisheen.
Recorded monuments
- OF035-015 Enclosure
Description
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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lisheen.
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 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 (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 Lisheen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Lisheen · An Lisín
- Area
- 1,688,230 m² (168.82 ha, 417.17 acres)
- Civil parish
- Eglish, and its townlands
- Barony
- Eglish
- Electoral division
- Birr Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 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.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballywilliam, Bogderries, Clonoghil Lower, Clonoghil Upper, Killaun, Townparks, Woodfield or Tullynisk
- Placenames
- Lisheen 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.