Lisheen

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisheen, from 924 m² to 201,795 m² (20.18 ha, 49.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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 Lisheen 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Lisheen 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 the townland of Lisheen.

Recorded monuments

• LI024-016 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a NW-facing slope with views to SE-NE. Circular area (19m N-S; 18m E-W) defined by scarped edge (Wth 6.7m; H 1.2m) with barely perceptible external fosse (Wth 10.2m; D 0.05m) and possible outer bank (Wth 6.8m; int. H 0.05m; ext. H 0.35m) NW-SE and WSW-W. Outer bank possibly levelled into fosse around E-arc. Monument raised slightly on NW-side to compensate for hill-slope. Field boundary depicted on current edition OS 6-inch map truncating SE-sector of monument has been removed. Monument has been incorporated into pasture field. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 6 December 2013

• LI024-017 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on a broad ridge. Oval area (18m NW-SE; 24m NE-SW) defined by scarped edge (Wth 1.2-1.45m; H 0.2-0.3m) with external fosse (Wth 3.65m; D 0.05m) evident W-NW, NNW-N and SSE. Monument bisected by field boundary (long axis NW-SE). Interior is level and under grass. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 6 December 2013

• LI024-117001 Enclosure
  Description

  In rough, poorly drained pasture, with forestry and townland boundary with Nicker 30m to NE. Enclosure (LI024-117002-) lies 42m to SW. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Monument identified as a circular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 131). Monument is not visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 22 July 2020

• LI024-117002 Enclosure
  Description

  In rough, poorly drained pasture, with forestry and townland boundary with Nicker 30m to NE. Enclosure (LI024-117001-) lies 42m to NE. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Monument identified as a circular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 129: AP 4/3721). Monument is not visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 22 July 2020

• LI024-298 Enclosure
  Description

  On a NE-facing slope, in improved pasture, 110m to W of a stream which also marks a townland boundary with Nicker. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. A ring-barrow (LI024-127----) lies 190m to NE. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as an oval-shaped area (21m NW-SE; 24m NE-SW) defined by a scarp (Wth 4.0m; H 0.6m) which is best preserved from SW-W-N-ENE. Monument is raised on the N side to compensate for hillslope. An ESB pole is situated within the N quadrant and a modern pump house and a second ESB pole are 10m to W. Monument is visible as an oval-shaped cropmark on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 15 October 2020

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Lisheen, about 1 in 20 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1217 (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 Lisheen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Lisheen · An Lisín

Area

341,757 m² (34.18 ha, 84.45 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynaclogh, and its townlands

Barony

Coonagh

Electoral division

Grean, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,548 people lived in 533 households in the Grean electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyvoneen, Bunavie, Nicker

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.