Liss

58 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Liss, from 42 m² to 182,195 m² (18.22 ha, 45.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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 Liss 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.

• 21 Oct 2025Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561543

• 19 Jul 2024Conditional

  to construct a silage base. Gross floor space of proposed works 444 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 24207

• 31 May 2024N/a

  to construct a silage base. Gross floor space of proposed works: 444 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 24147

• 11 Aug 2022Conditional

  to construct an extension to their dwelling.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22961

• 9 Apr 2020Conditional

  for the Construction of a new Slatted Shed with Calf Creep Area, Manure Pit and associated Ancillary Concrete. Gross floor space of proposed works: 182.44 sqm, Gross floor space of work to be retained: 135.27 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 20461

• 19 Mar 2020Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, garage and waste water treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed works; 259.70sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20362

• 27 Jan 2020Conditional

  to construct a three bay single slatted shed with creep area. Gross floor space of proposed works: 249 sq.m

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2086

• 29 May 2017Conditional

  to construct a dwelling, domestic garage & proprietary treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed works: House 205sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17762

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 Liss.

Recorded monuments

• GA116-103 Quarry
  Description

  In hilly pastureland. A hachured feature marked on the 1920 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1983 to be a quarry pit. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 14 August 2014

• GA125-103 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in hilly pastureland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 47m) defined by a scarp which was heavily overgrown with bramble and bushes from N to SW. From SW to N the enclosing bank had been dug into in a number of places and was irregular in outline. Field walls cut the monument at N and E. The interior rose towards the centre. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 15 April 2019

• GA125-104 Quarry
  Description

  In undulating pastureland. Shown as a hachured feature on the 1920 edition of the OS 6-inch map and named 'Gravel Pit (Disused)' on the OS 25-inch plan. No visible surface trace survived when inspected in 1983. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 14 August 2014

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Liss.

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 Liss, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

• Liss, Kylebrack5 sales

Name

Liss · Lios an Choirthe

Area

1,182,292 m² (118.23 ha, 292.15 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynakill (Loughrea Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Drumkeary, the unit of the census

Census 2022

625 people lived in 217 households in the Drumkeary electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Allygola, Ballynakill, Burroge, Curragh, Knockroe, Lissaniska, Parkagarraun, Tomany Beg, Toorsmuttaun

Placenames

Liss 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.