Lisfinny

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisfinny, from 356 m² to 111,846 m² (11.18 ha, 27.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Lisfinny 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.

• 3 Feb 2022Conditional

  RETENTION PERMISSION for conversion of existing first floor attic space to home office, playroom, toilet, and storeroom. Also, window to the eastern side gable elevation and velux roof light to the front northern roof elevation and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2268

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170

Recorded monuments

• WA028-013 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Located towards the bottom of a S-facing slope overlooking the W-E Bride River, c. 160m to the S. This is a Fitzgerald castle with references dating with certainty from the Desmond Rebellion of 1579, after which it was granted to Sir Walter Raleigh (O'Connell Redmond 1918, 148-50). It was described as a ruined castle at Knocknamuch and the property of the Earl of Cork in 1641 (Simington 1942, 5). This is a rectangular tower house (ext. dims. 12.6m N-S; 9.25m E-W) of four floors with a base-batter, cut-stone quoins, a barrel-vaulted loft over the ground floor and a vault over the second-floor chamber. The entrance, now modified, towards the W end of the S wall, is beneath an external doorway at the loft level (Sherlock 2006, 88). The ground floor doorway leads directly under a murder-hole to the ground floor (int. dims. 8.2m N-S; 5m E-W), which has embrasures in the N, E and W walls. The loft overhead must have been accessed through a trap-door. Mural stairs rise from the S side of the W embrasure to the SW angle where a mural passage leads down through the S wall past the destroyed external doorway to a chamber commanding the murder-hole. From the head of the mural stairs, newel stairs in the SW angle rise to the upper floors. The first floor has tall rectangular lights in the E, W and S walls, a destroyed fireplace and oven in the E wall, and a garderobe at the SE angle. There are what might be two smoke-holes at the NE angle, and all the embrasures are segmented with wicker-centering. The second floor is entered through a pointed doorway and has tall rectangular windows in each wall, those on the S and W walls being ogee-headed. There is a destroyed fireplace in the E wall, while a garderobe at the SE angle is entered from the E side of the embrasure in the S wall. The third floor is over the upper vault and has tall limestone windows with stepped-heads and dressed ingoings in each wall, where they survive. There is a wall-walk overhead with a look-out over the stairs housing at the SW angle, but the crenelations do not survive. A retaining wall (Wth 0.5m; int. H 1.3m; max. ext. H 4.2m at S) c. 2-4m from the base of the tower on the S and E sides may be part of an original bawn. There are curved bastion-like features at the NE and SE angles. O'Connell-Redmond, G. (1918) The castles of north-east Cork and near its borders. JCHAS 24, 1-6, 62-6, 93-103, 145-51. O'Flanagan, M. (Compiler) (1929) Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Waterford collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1841. Typescript. Bray. Sherlock, R. (2006) Cross-cultural occurrences of mutations in tower house architecture: evidence for cultural homogeneity in late medieval Irealnd? JIA, vol. 15, 73-91. Simington, R. C. (ed.) (1942) The Civil Survey AD 1654-1656, vi, the County of Waterford. Irish Manuscripts Commission. Dublin. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 26 July 2011

• WA028-013001 Bawn
  Description

  Located towards the bottom of a S-facing slope overlooking the W-E Bride River, c. 160m to the S. A retaining wall (Wth 0.5m; int. H 1.3m; max. ext. H 4.2m at S) c. 2-4m from the base of the tower (WA028-013----) on the S and E sides may be part of an original bawn. There are curved bastion-like features at the NE and SE angles. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 26 July 2011

Architectural heritage

• Lisfinny House, house, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey over basement house, c.1790, on an L-shaped plan possibly incorporating fabric of earlier building, 1676 – 1677, with two-bay two-storey side elevations, and two-bay two-storey return to west. Renovated and refenestrated, c.1990. Hipped slate roof on an L-shaped plan with rolled lead ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods, c.1990, on rendered eaves having iron brackets retaining original cast-iron downpipes. Painted rendered walls over random rubble stone construction. Camber-headed window openings (square-headed window openings to basement) with stone sills, and replacement uPVC casement windows, c.1990. Round-headed door opening with doorcase removed, c.1990, timber panelled door, and spoked fanlight. Set back from road in own grounds with forecourt, and landscaped grounds to site.(ii) Detached three-bay single-storey rubble stone outbuilding with attic, c.1790, to north. Extended, c.1940, comprising single-bay single-storey lean-to end bay to right (east). Refenestrated, c.1990. Pitched slate roof (lean-to to end bay) with red clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack, rendered coping, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Random rubble stone walls with unpainted rendered walls to end bay. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, and rubble stone voussoirs to original block. Replacement uPVC casement windows, c.1990. Square-headed door opening with rubble stone voussoirs, and replacement glazed uPVC panelled door, c.1990.(iii) Detached two-bay single-storey rubble stone coach house, c.1790, to north-west with pair of elliptical-headed carriageways, two-bay single-storey lower end bay to left (west), and single-bay single-storey lean-to lower end bay to right (east). Pitched slate roofs (lean-to to end bay) with red clay ridge tiles, rendered coping, and no rainwater goods on squared rubble stone eaves. Random rubble stone walls. Square-headed slit-style window openings with no fittings. Pair of elliptical-headed carriageways with squared rubble stone voussoirs, and timber boarded double doors. Square-headed door openings to end bay to right (east) with timber boarded half-doors.(iv) Detached single-bay four-stage tower house, pre-1579, to west on a rectangular plan. Now in ruins. Roof now gone. Random rubble stone walls with base batter. Square-headed slit-style window openings with cut-stone surrounds having chamfered reveals, and no fittings. One pointed-arch slit-style window opening with cut-stone surround having chamfered reveals, and no fittings. Profile-headed window opening to top stage with cut-stone surround having chamfered reveals, and no fittings.

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 Lisfinny, about 1 in 5 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1530 (ZIP).

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 Lisfinny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.

Name

Lisfinny · Lios Fhinín

Area

627,593 m² (62.76 ha, 155.08 acres)

Civil parish

Lismore and Mocollop, and its townlands

Barony

Coshmore and Coshbride

Electoral division

Castlerichard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

494 people lived in 178 households in the Castlerichard electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolowen, Knocknamuck South, Limekilnclose, Sion, Tallowbridge Lands, Townparks East, Townparks West

Placenames

Lisfinny 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.