Lisheenaclara

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisheenaclara, from 1,359 m² to 47,518 m² (4.75 ha, 11.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 Lisheenaclara 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.

• 2 Jun 2026Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660880

• 17 Nov 2020Conditional

  for the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage and on-site treatment system, along with all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 213 msq [h] & 60 msq [g].

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201725

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA 004168

Recorded monuments

• GA115-047 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Within the S sector of the interior of a cashel (GA115-052----). This children's burial ground consists of an unenclosed rectangular area (16m x 3m) within which a number of small plain set but haphazardly arranged headstones are visible running on a N-S alignment. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 26 March 2020

• GA115-052 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On the S-facing slope of a prominent hillock. Very poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 34m) defined by a low grassed-over drystone wall from SE to SW; a gentle scarp forms the enclosing element from SW to NE while a steeper natural scarp defines the E limits. Quarrying has occurred at NE. A children's burial ground (GA115-047----) lies in the S half of the interior. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 15 January 2018

Architectural heritage

• Lisheenaclara Bridge, bridge, 1740–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch limestone road bridge over tributary of Duniry River, built c.1760. Elliptical arch having cut-stone voussoirs. Snecked cut-stone walls and parapets with tooled copings. Tooled string course. Walls terminating in square-profile pier abutments. Recent render repairs to east approach wall. Rubble revetment wall to river bank, to either side of bridge.

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 Lisheenaclara, 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 Lisheenaclara.

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

Name

Lisheenaclara · Lisín an Chláraigh

Area

334,505 m² (33.45 ha, 82.66 acres)

Civil parish

Kilteskill, and its townlands

Barony

Loughrea

Electoral division

Kilteskill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

393 people lived in 131 households in the Kilteskill electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyknock, Boleycurheen, Commons, Srahaunananta

Placenames

Lisheenaclara 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.