Lisdonnish
Lisdonnish is a townland in the civil parish of Crosserlough, barony of Castlerahan, Co. Cavan.
Parcel 2434772
- Area
- 33,663 m² (3.37 ha, 8.32 acres)
- Buildings
- 5 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 1,284 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
- Lisdonnish
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.
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 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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
- 54.5 ha
- 135 acres
- Land parcels
- 17
- registered freehold, median 24,879 m² (2.49 ha, 6.15 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisdonnish, from 7 m² to 105,278 m² (10.53 ha, 26.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Lisdonnish 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
24 Jul 2026Conditional
to RETAIN ring beam and block walls built on existing structure to stabilise existing two storey building structure and retain the proposed driveway position into the dwelling . PERMISSION is sought for the redesign of the existing two storey dwelling house, raising the wall-plate of the existing two storey structure with new roof and floors, likewise with the existing single storey side extension with rooflights over front and back and the demolition and replacement of the existing roof porch, changing fenestration on all gables to accommodate the new design allowing a fully serviced two storey house. PERMISSION to upgrade the existing septic tank to a new biocycle & percolation area, permission for a new private well & all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660409
12 Jun 2026N/a
to RETAIN ring beam and block walls built on existing structure to stabilise existing two storey building structure and RETAIN the proposed driveway position into the dwelling . PERMISSION is sought for the redesign of the existing two storey dwelling house, raising the wall-plate of the existing two storey structure with new roof and floors, likewise with the existing single storey side extension with rooflights over front and back and the demolition and replacement of the existing roof porch, changing fenestration on all gables to accommodate the new design allowing a fully serviced two storey house. PERMISSION to upgrade the existing septic tank to a new biocycle & percolation area, permission for a new private well & all ancillary site works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2660334
23 Jun 2025N/a
to retain ring beam and block walls built on existing house to stabilise existing two storey building structure and retain the proposed driveway position into the dwelling. Permission is sought for the redesign of the existing two storey dwelling house, raising the wallplate of the existing two storey structure with new roof and floors, likewise with the existing single storey side extension with rooflights over front and back and the demolition and replacement of the existing roof porch, changing fenestration on all gables to accommodate the new design allowing a fully serviced two storey house. Permission for a fully serviced detached two storey domestic garage/storeroom home office and gym. Permission to upgrade the existing septic tank to a new biocycle & percolation area, permission for a new private well & all ancillary site works - SIGNIFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION HAS BEEN RECEIVED.
Retention, 2 homes · Cavan County Council, 2560325
16 Mar 2021Conditional
to erect new dwelling house, entrance, boundary walls, piers with sewerage treatment system & percolation area and demolish existing dwelling
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21154
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Lisdonnish.
Recorded monuments
- CV032-033 Ringfort - rath
Description
Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 27m) enclosed by three earthen banks with wide, deep, partly waterlogged intermediate fosses. While the middle bank is very substantial, the outer one has been replaced by a modern field boundary. Original entrance represented by corresponding breaks in the middle and inner banks with accompanying causeways. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lisdonnish.
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 Lisdonnish, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lisdonnish.
- 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 Lisdonnish with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Lisdonnish
- Area
- 545,209 m² (54.52 ha, 134.72 acres)
- Civil parish
- Crosserlough, and its townlands
- Barony
- Castlerahan
- Electoral division
- Graddum, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 589 people lived in 206 households in the Graddum electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Derrylahan, Derrylurgan, Killytogher, Rassan
- Placenames
- Lisdonnish 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.