Lisheen
Lisheen is a townland in the civil parish of Eglish, barony of Eglish, Co. Offaly. Its name in Irish is An Lisín.
Parcel 286974
- Area
- 2,248 m² (0.22 ha, 0.56 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 221 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
- Lisheen
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
- 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1646 (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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
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
- 168.8 ha
- 417 acres
- Land parcels
- 27
- registered freehold, median 2,445 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres)
- Zoning
- C3
- Enterprise and Employment
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisheen, from 401 m² to 801,245 m² (80.12 ha, 197.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 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
- C3Enterprise and Employment (Office, business/technology park and related)
Birr Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Offaly · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Birr Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Offaly · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
7 May 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21288
26 Apr 2021Conditional
MOBILE HOME / TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION. PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A PROPOSED TWO-STOREY DWELLING AND DOMESTIC GARAGE, A PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA, ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS, INCLUDING A PROPOSED SITE ENTRANCE
Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21258
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 Lisheen.
Recorded monuments
- OF035-015 Enclosure
Description
This site was bulldozed in the 1960s, according to local information the site consisted of a small enclosure 20-30ft. in diameter with no signs of an enclosing bank, with whitethorn bushes growing around it. Hachured as circular enclosure on the 1912 edition of the OS 6-inch map. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lisheen.
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
- 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 moderately low, low, low (inferred).
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1646 (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 Lisheen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Lisheen · An Lisín
- Area
- 1,688,230 m² (168.82 ha, 417.17 acres)
- Civil parish
- Eglish, and its townlands
- Barony
- Eglish
- Electoral division
- Birr Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,300 people lived in 478 households in the Birr Rural electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballywilliam, Bogderries, Clonoghil Lower, Clonoghil Upper, Killaun, Townparks, Woodfield or Tullynisk
- Placenames
- Lisheen 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.