Lisdonagh

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisdonagh, from 394 m² to 89,671 m² (8.97 ha, 22.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Lisdonagh 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.

• 18 Dec 2025Conditional

  of an existing garden room and all associated site works

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2561879

• 9 Apr 2019Conditional

  to construct new serviced dwelling, garage/shed and effluent treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed works: 213 sqm - House, 60 sqm - Shed

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19526

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Hacket 001294

Recorded monuments

• GA042-174 Moated site
  Description

  In low-lying grassland, c. 100m W of Lough Hacket. Rectangular moated site (E-W 41m, N-S 27m), in fair condition, defined by two banks of earth and stone and an intervening fosse. The outer bank is present only intermittently. In NW corner of the interior is a square platform (L/Wth 8m), probably the remains of an associated building. Possible leat at NE. A similar moated site (GA042-227----) lies c. 100m to NW. 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

• GA042-174001 Building
  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.

• GA042-175 Country house
  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.

• GA042-227 Moated site
  Description

  Some 100m NW of a moated site (GA042-174----). Poorly preserved subrectangular moated site (N-S 36m, E-W 28m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The banks only survive intermittently. At NE, traces of a leat run from the fosse towards nearby Lough Hacket. 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

• Lisdonagh House, house, 1750–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached country house, built c.1760, having five-bay two-storey over basement front elevation and three-bay three-storey rear elevation, former with round entrance bay and latter with flat-roofed canted middle bay. Two-bay side elevations. Two-bay flat-roofed addition to north end, presenting one-storey over basement to front and two storeys to rear. Walls rendered with lime plaster, and have raised limestone quoins and base moulding. Hipped slate roof with pair of chimneystacks in centre of ridge with ramps up to stacks, flues rising above roof level and ramped up to squat square-plan stacks with bands of limestone at offset, and limestone copings. Roof has heavy rectangular block as cornice with cast-iron gutters on top. Square-headed window openings with flat plaster strips as architraves, and tooled limestone sills, with timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to top floor and ground floor, three-over-six pane to first floor front and rear, and replacement to lower floors of rear elevation. Round-headed stairs window to rear projecting bay, with cobweb fanlight. Round-headed doorcase with limestone block-and-start surround, moulded transom and leaded cobweb fanlight, keystone in form of massive scroll bracket, further cornice above and limestone bracket above that in form of heraldic bird's head, beak forming ring for hanging a lantern. Replacement timber panelled door, and approached by flight of five limestone steps with wrought-iron railings. Round-headed doorway to rear entrance bay having double-leaf timber panelled door and fanlight, and flanked by windows, formerly four-over-four bay in sides of bay. Diocletian windows to basement with tooled limestone voussoirs and leaded cobweb fanlights. Quadrant wall projects from north addition and terminates in square-plan pavilion with pyramidal slated roof, niche facing towards house, Venetian window facing out, and basement having two Diocletian windows to basement at north side, with tooled limestone voussoirs and leaded cobweb fanlights. Detached eight-bay two-storey stable block, built c.1760, in yard ancillary to Lisdonagh House. Now in use as domestic accommodation. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and rendered walls. At either end are plain gate piers with wrought-iron gates. Single-storey outbuilding at right angles having pitched slate roof and rendered limestone walls with integral segmental carriage arch. Fountain to yard. On avenue are three field gates wiith limestone posts and wrought-iron gates. Two-bay single-storey gate lodge of c.1830 on opposite side of road to entrance gates with hipped slate roof having rendered chimneystack and wide eaves with simple brackets, lime-rendered walls and wide windows, entrance being through porch in south return wall.

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 Lisdonagh, 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 low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Lisdonagh · Lios Donncha

Area

1,045,268 m² (104.53 ha, 258.29 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghpatrick, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Kilcoona, the unit of the census

Census 2022

662 people lived in 215 households in the Kilcoona electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Abbeytown, Bunnasillagh, Cloonee, Donaghpatrick, Gortarica, Mirehill, Oltore

Placenames

Lisdonagh 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.