Lisbrine

61 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisbrine, from 872 m² to 403,043 m² (40.3 ha, 99.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 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 Lisbrine 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 Lisbrine 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

• Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA 004168

Recorded monuments

• GA123-069 Burial ground
  Description

  On a SE-facing slope in pastureland. This rectilinear burial ground (20.5m NE-SW; 15.3m NW-SE) is unenclosed. A mixture of modern upright and recumbent graveslabs are visible. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 26 March 2020

• GA123-070 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Some 80m ESE of a burial ground (GA123-069----), on a SE-facing slope. This spring well, dedicated to St Couran, is delimited by a circular drystone-lined well shaft (1.12m N-S; 1.16m E-W; D 1.45-1.7m). Six steps (Wth 0.38m; D 0.26m) at WSW lead down to the water. From the top of the lowest step there is a drop of 0.5m to the base of the well. A kerb of small upright stones (H 0.16; L 0.35m; Wth 0.03m) extends around its perimeter. An uninscribed upright slab was visible few metres N of the well. Six broken and inscribed stone fragments were found in and around it, five of them fitted together to form a pillar-like slab (approx. L 0.78m; Wth 0.15m; T 0.07m) bearing the following dedication, beneath an IHS monogram, SAINT COURNA. Further lettering beneath this was difficult to decipher. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 April 2023

• GA123-071 House - 18th/19th century
  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

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

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 Lisbrine, about 1 in 20 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 Lisbrine.

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

Name

Lisbrine · Lios Braoin

Area

3,014,512 m² (301.45 ha, 744.9 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbeacanty, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Ballycahalan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

213 people lived in 82 households in the Ballycahalan electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballardiggan, Ballyconnell, Ballyeighter, Bunnaglass, Cloonmorris, Doonally East, Gardenblake Commons, Knockouran, Lurgabaun, Reyrawer

Placenames

Lisbrine 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.