Lissaphuca

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lissaphuca, from 8,604 m² (0.86 ha, 2.13 acres) to 165,472 m² (16.55 ha, 40.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Lissaphuca 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 Lissaphuca 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 the townland of Lissaphuca.

Recorded monuments

• RO047-005 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as an oval embanked enclosure (ext. dims. c. 40m N-S; c. 30m E-W) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as 'Lissaphuca' - the demon's fort. It is situated on a rise on a W-facing slope. Subcircular slightly domed grass-covered area (dims 31m N-S; 25.5m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.8m at E to 1.3m at S and W to 1.65m at N) with traces of stone facing or overlain by the remnants of a stone wall, especially S-SW. There is no evidence of a fosse, original entrance or internal features. The perimeter is slightly truncated at E by a field bank, now removed. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO047-006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a slight S-facing slope of a broad plateau. Subcircular domed and grass-covered platform (dims 22.5m NNE-SSW; 20m WNW-ESE) defined by a scarp (Wth 4.75-7.8m; H 1.45-1.7m) which has a berm towards its base probably caused by poaching. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance, but some boulders at the edge of the scarp N-SE may be the remains of a wall. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO047-008 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a slight NW-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 29m N-S; 27.5m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.5-3m; int. H 0.1-0.3m; ext. H 0.5-01.1m) truncated slightly by a field wall at S and overlain by a field wall SW-N. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance but lazy-beds occupy the interior. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 Lissaphuca, 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

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

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 Lissaphuca with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Lissaphuca

Area

602,104 m² (60.21 ha, 148.78 acres)

Civil parish

Taghboy, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone North

Electoral division

Taghboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

535 people lived in 177 households in the Taghboy electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowkeel, Coolatober, Cronin, Mullaghardagh, Torpan Beg, Torpan More

Placenames

Lissaphuca 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.