Lismore Demesne

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lismore Demesne, from 2,022 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres) to 249,698 m² (24.97 ha, 61.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Lismore Demesne 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.

• 11 Jul 2024Conditional

  for the construction of bungalow dwelling house, new site entrance with effluent treatment system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 128.65 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460867

• 18 Feb 2019N/a

  to construct of a four bay double slatted cattle shed and holding pen. Gross floor space of proposed works: 507.36 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 19219

• 9 Jul 2018Conditional

  for (a) construction of a new dwelling, (b) Construction of a domestic garage/store, (c) Treatment system with percolation area, (d) new site entrance and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works Dwelling 263sqm, Garage 60sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18953

• 22 Nov 2017Conditional

  for demolition of derelict dwelling house, construction of new dwelling house, proprietary waste water treatment system, domestic garage and solid fuel store and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 272.5sqm, Gross floor space of any demolition 13.320sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171676

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 Lismore Demesne.

Recorded monuments

• GA108-164 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a SE-facing slope in grassland. Well-preserved oval rath (67m N-S; 55m E-W) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is visible from N through E to SW; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. The fosse and outer bank only survive from NW through N to NE. There is a causewayed entrance gap (Wth 4.5m) at N. A L-shaped depression in the interior may be the site of a possible souterrain (GA108-064001-). Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 January 2018

• GA108-164001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within the interior of a rath (GA108-164----). A roughly L-shaped depression (L >28.5m; Wth 3.4m; D c. 0.2m) may mark the site of a souterrain. It runs N-S for 16m before turning E at its S end, running E-W for 12.5m. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 January 2018

• GA108-165 Castle - tower 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.

• GA108-166 Fish-pond
  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 Lismore Demesne.

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 Lismore Demesne, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Lismore Demesne · An Lios Mór

Area

1,874,298 m² (187.43 ha, 463.15 acres)

Civil parish

Clonfert, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Clonfert, the unit of the census

Census 2022

454 people lived in 157 households in the Clonfert electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Abbeyland Great, Ballynakill, Fearmore, Goatland, Keenaghan, Kilhonerush or Woodlands, Kilmachugh, Millpark, Rooaun

Placenames

Lismore Demesne 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.