Lissatunny
Lissatunny is a townland in the civil parish of Kiltartan, barony of Kiltartan, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Lios an tSonnaigh.
Parcel 2113004
- Area
- 166,462 m² (16.65 ha, 41.13 acres)
- Buildings
- 7 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 1,295 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Lissatunny
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 Area of Conservation: Ballinduff Turlough SAC 002295
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_802 (ZIP).
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 61.8 ha
- 153 acres
- Land parcels
- 29
- registered freehold, median 3,016 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lissatunny, from 35 m² to 166,462 m² (16.65 ha, 41.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Lissatunny 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
26 Aug 2020Refused
for a storage shed constructed to the rear of dwelling house approved under pl. ref. no. 04/4045 on revised site boundaries and all associated site development works. Gross floor space of works to be retained: 204.7 msq. Gross floor space of any existing buildings: 511.5 msq.
Retention · Galway County Council, 201190
27 Apr 2018N/a
consisting of (i) demolition of substandard dwelling/store (50.7m2), machinery store (23.7m2) and walling, (ii)alterations to existing site entrance and widening of entrance roadway, (iii) regarding of site level (iv) construction of cattle shed including slurry storage tank with slatted livestock housing over, calf creep/calving area, cattle handling facilities and covered feed area (172.7m2) (v) construction of silage storage yard and effluent retention tank, (vi) all access roads, associated and ancillary works to the above.
Permission · Galway County Council, 18529
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Ballinduff Turlough SAC 002295
Recorded monuments
- GA114-121 Ringfort - rath
Description
On the SE-facing slope of a hill. This circular rath (diam. 41m), in fair condition, is defined by a well-preserved tree-lined bank with traces of an external fosse at NE. There is a rectangular depression in the NW sector of the interior. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 9 February 2018
- GA114-122 Ringfort - cashel
Description
In level pastureland overlooking a turlough to the NW. This poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 26.5m) is defined by a ruinous drystone wall. Traces of inner and outer wall-facing are visible in the SW quadrant. A field wall cuts through the N sector of the interior. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 9 February 2018
- GA114-123 Ringfort - rath
Description
On the summit of a hillock. Very poorly preserved circular enclosure (diam. 26.6m) defined by a bank of earth and stone. A NE-SW running field wall cuts across the monument at WNW and SSE. The cartographic evidence suggest that this was a rath. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 15 April 2019
- GA114-124 Ringfort - rath
Description
On the W-facing slope of a hill. This roughly circular rath (diam. c. 53m), in fair condition, is defined by a bank and external fosse. The bank is overgrown with hawthorn trees and a number of gaps in it appear to be modern. A field wall cuts across the monument at W and SSE. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 9 February 2018
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lissatunny.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Lissatunny, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_802 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Lissatunny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Lissatunny · Lios an tSonnaigh
- Area
- 617,909 m² (61.79 ha, 152.69 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kiltartan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kiltartan
- Electoral division
- Kiltartan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 859 people lived in 290 households in the Kiltartan electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinduff, Baunragh, Carrowbaun West, Carrownamona, Corker, Reaskgarriff, Srah
- Placenames
- Lissatunny 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.