Lissanard West

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lissanard West, from 179 m² to 71,009 m² (7.1 ha, 17.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Lissanard West 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 Lissanard West 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 Lissanard West.

Recorded monuments

• GA117-071 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Adjacent to the S bank of a stream in undulating pastureland. Named ‘Tobernaglora’ in Gothic script on the 1838 and 1947 editions of the 6-inch OS maps. On inspection all that was visible was a well lined with a cement pipe, which was covered over with a sheet of metal and weighed down with a large boulder. Nothing was evident to indicate that was venerated. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 April 2023

• GA117-072 Church
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Tynagh Parochial Hall, school, 1840–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached T-plan three-bay two-storey national school, dated 1845, with pedimented entrance projection to front (west) elevation. Later used as parish hall, currently disused. Hipped slate roof with cut limestone eaves course, and having cut-limestone chimneystack over middle of rear elevation. Snecked dressed limestone walls with squared quoins. Plaque to pediment reads: 'Erected by Lord Riverston AD 1845'. Further plaques over doorways to sides of entrance projection, reading: 'Girls' School' and 'Boys' School'. Round-headed window openings to front of entrance projection and to gable ends, and square-headed elsewhere, with dressed limestone surrounds and slightly raised keystones. Square-headed doorways to porch and to each end of rear elevation, with timber battened doors. All openings currently boarded up. Wrought-iron pedestrian gate set to recent rubble limestone piers and boundary wall.

• Saint Lawrence's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted cruciform-plan Roman Catholic church, built c.1830, facing west, with long single-bay nave and transepts, and single-bay chancel, with sacristy to west side of north transept, and with recent lower bay added to north transept. Now in use as farm building. Pitched slate roofs with cast-iron rainwater goods, and with carved limestone crosses to gables. Stepped bellcote to gable-front, having round-headed bell opening with plinths, imposts and cornice. Roughcast rendered walls. Pointed arch double-light window openings to upper part of gable-front and of transept gables, with sloping limestone sills, cut limestone surrounds, timber Y-tracery and margined stained glass timber sliding sash windows. Chancel east gable has pair of lancet windows with remains of glazing, with oculus between at high level containing square timber window. Double windows to upper front walls of transepts, having Tudor-arch lights set in chamfered limestone surround, with timber windows. Bipartite windows to lower parts of same walls, flush with upper windows and having chamfered limestone surrounds and remains of timber windows. Triangular-headed doorway to gable-front, having tooled limestone surround, now partly blocked up. Several new square-headed openings to facilitate current use of building. Interior partially intact, with rendered walls having remains of decorative painted stencil work, square-plan pilasters to junction of nave, chancel and transepts, with moulded dentillated cornices and plasterwork Stations of the Cross, each having moulded surround, cast image within moulded medallion, and with cartouche below. Windows to chancel have hood-mouldings with decorative stops and roll mouldings to openings and oculus has moulded render surround. Timber common rafter roof.

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 Lissanard West, 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 low.

Terrain model

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

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 Lissanard West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Lissanard West · Lios an Aird Thiar

Area

273,655 m² (27.37 ha, 67.62 acres)

Civil parish

Tynagh, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Pallas, the unit of the census

Census 2022

406 people lived in 140 households in the Pallas electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cappacur, Garraun, Pallas, Quarryhill

Placenames

Lissanard West 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.