Liss

96 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Liss, from 40 m² to 180,894 m² (18.09 ha, 44.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 44 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.

• 10 Jan 2026Conditional

  to construct a private dwelling house, domestic garage, a proprietary effluent treatment system, and ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660018

• 15 May 2025Conditional

  to construct dwelling house and domestic garage, wastewater treatment system & percolation area along with associated siteworks. Gross floor space of proposed works: 213.00 sqm(H), 50 sqm(G)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2560592

• 25 Apr 2025Conditional

  to construct a roofed manure pit. Gross floor space of proposed works: 65.63 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2589

• 5 Aug 2022Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house and garage with treatment plant and percolation. Gross floor space of proposed works 285.00sq m.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260794

• 29 Mar 2022Conditional

  Permission sought to (1) retain domestic garage & fuel store (2) retain canopy to Front Elevation of existing dwelling house (3) construct extension to dwelling house (4) construct new wastewater treatment system along associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260291

• 29 Nov 2021Conditional

  to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment system and private garage/fuel shed to include all associated site works . Gross floor space of proposed works , house 124.61 sqm and garage 53.94 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212248

• 4 Aug 2020Unconditional

  for an extension and alterations to an existing national school and all associated services (Gross floor space 391sqm) Previous Planning Reference 15/371

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 201084

• 31 Oct 2019Refused

  to demolish existing sub-standard dwelling house and construct new dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment system/percolation and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 226 sqm, Garage - 54 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 68 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191703

• 30 May 2018Conditional

  for the construction of two temporary classrooms and an extension (changing suite)to an existing school together with associated works and an increase in effluent treatment capacity in lieu of Planning Permission 15/371. Gross floor space of proposed works (prefabs) 80.3 sqm. x 2, (extension) 20.4 sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 18717

• 15 Jun 2017N/a

  to refurbish existing dwellinghouse, these works include the substantial demolition of the existing dwellinghouse and shop unit to provide for a new detached dwellinghouse. Permission is also sought for the construction of a new wastewater treatment system and polishing filter (gross floor space proposed 254sqm, demolition 215.84)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17878

• 10 Apr 2017Conditional

  for the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, and treatment plant with associated site works. (Gross floor space of proposed works: House 65.7 sqm; Garage 38 sqm.)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17464

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: Lough Corrib SAC 000297

Recorded monuments

• GA058-068001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a N-facing slope in grassland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 65m), the W sector of which appears to have been partially damaged. Apart from a dense area of nettle growth, and faint traces of a bank at W end of the associated CBG (GA058-068002-), no visible surface trace survives. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA058-068002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Within an earthwork (GA058-068001-). It consists of a slightly raised unenclosed subrectangular area (NE-SW 18m, NW-SE 7.8m) within which at least eight rows of small set stones, aligned NE-SW, indicate graves oriented roughly E-W. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA058-069 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a N-facing slope in grassland. Well-preserved subcircular rath (E-W 67m, N-S 63m) defined by a bank and external fosse which are are best preserved at E and S. Several breaches in the bank appearjiiodern. A CBG (GA058-069001-) is associated. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA058-069001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Within a ringfort (GA058-069----). According to local information, there was a CBG here. No visible surface trace survives The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

• Handball alley, 1940–1960 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached open-air handball alley, built c.1950, now disused. Rectangular plan with two-storey playing wall to rear and sloping side walls. Concrete walls with four concrete buttresses to external face of rear wall and one to side walls, upper section of lower side walls raised. Square-headed entrance opening to west. Remains of iron posts to top of rear and side walls. Set on roadside with gathering space to west and community centre to east.

• Rose Villa, school master's house, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey teacher's house, built c.1870, having dormer floor with gable to front, and having single-storey lean-to extension to rear. Now in use as private house. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks to gables, cast-iron rainwater goods, exposed rafter ends to eaves and timber bargeboards to front gable. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings, front elevation having timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to ground floor and four-over-four pane to first floor, with tooled limestone sills. Replacement timber windows to remaining openings. Square-headed painted sheeted timber door with cast-iron door furniture. Set back from road behind rendered wall with square rendered gate piers and farm gate to east and decorative gate piers with stone pier caps to entrance.

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 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 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, Abbeyknockmoy10 sales

Name

Liss · An Lios

Area

1,811,726 m² (181.17 ha, 447.69 acres)

Civil parish

Abbeyknockmoy, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Abbey East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

655 people lived in 215 households in the Abbey East electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Abbey, Chapelfield, Clashard, Culliagh North, Culliagh South, Farmhill, Glennaveel, Kilgarve North, Lindsay's Farm, Oakwood North

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.