Liscoyle

45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Liscoyle, from 554 m² to 303,284 m² (30.33 ha, 74.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Liscoyle 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.

• 10 Jul 2025Conditional

  for: (a) demolition of an existing outbuilding/domestic store, (b) retention permission of an existing retaining wall and foundation with permission to complete a new domestic garage/store, (c) new 2 storey extension to the rear of an existing 2 storey detached dwelling, (d) decommission the existing site entrance and permission sought for a new vehicular entrance and (e) all associated site works at the above address. Gross floor space of proposed works: (ext) 63.44 sqm, (G) 76.80 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 76.8 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 27.3 sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 25168

• 19 Jun 2025Conditional

  for the construction of a serviced dwelling with an effluent treatment system and a garage/shed together with all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 192 sqm(H), 103.00 sqm(G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560790

• 10 Apr 2025Conditional

  for the construction of a part single storey/part two storey dwelling and domestic garage/store, wastewater treatment system with polishing filter, new site entrance and all associated site works. Gross floor area of proposed works: 236.00 sqm(H), 30.00 sqm(G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2570

• 10 Oct 2022Conditional

  for the construction of a livestock underpass, effluent holding tank and all associated siteworks.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261011

• 21 Apr 2022Conditional

  for the following development: (a) construction of a new dwelling (b) construction of a domestic garage/store (c) wastewater treatment system with percolation area (d) new site entrance and (e) all associated external site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 317sqm, Garage: 94.24sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22527

• 20 Dec 2021N/a

  for the following development: a) Construction of a new dwelling, b) Construction of a domestic garage/ store, c) Wastewater treatment system with percolation area, d) New site entrance and e) All associated external site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 317 sqm (house) & 75.64 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212433

• 28 Oct 2021Conditional

  for proposed domestic dwelling, domestic garage, treatment plant, percolation area with all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 308 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212009

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 Liscoyle.

Recorded monuments

• GA106-113001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Within a field system (GA106-113002-). Very poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 28m) defined by a intermittent traces of a bank. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 15 January 2018

• GA106-113002 Field system
  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.

• GA106-114 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In low-lying pastureland. This subcircular rath (c. 40m NW-SE; c. 35m NE-SW) is defined by a fairly substantial bank which is extant throughout and is best preserved at S (max. Wth 5.85m; int. H 0.52m; ext. H c. 2m). Similar opposing gaps occur in the bank at E (Wth 5.3m) and W (Wth 5.2m). A natural ridge runs N-S through the monument and field-clearance material has been piled in the NE sector of the interior. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 15 January 2018

• GA106-115 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low hill in pastureland. Circular rath (diam. c. 45m), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank and fosse are visible all round. The outer bank survives from SSE through W to NW; it is overlain by a field boundary from NNW to NNE. A gap (Wth 5m) at SSE may be original. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 15 January 2018

• GA106-116 Mill - corn
  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.

• GA106-117 Chapel
  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.

• GA106-167 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a prominent rise in undulating pastureland. Aerial reconnaissance in November 1987 (ASGAP 376: 53A) revealed this subcircular rath (38.5m N-S; 36m E-W) which is defined by a bank of earth and stone; it is best preserved from E to S (Wth 6m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 0.55m). Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 15 January 2018

• GA107-125 Quarry
  Description

  In grassland. A hachured feature marked on the 1945 revision of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a disused quarry that was overgrown with trees. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 11 August 2014

Architectural heritage

• Castletown Bridge, bridge, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Three-arch bridge, built c.1780, carrying road over river. Round arches and V-cutwaters to west elevation. Rubble stone walls, dressed stone voussoirs and soffits, and rubble coping stones. Partly rendered to east elevation. Now bypassed by recent bridge.

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 Liscoyle, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Liscoyle · Lios Cuaill

Area

2,182,337 m² (218.23 ha, 539.27 acres)

Civil parish

Abbeygormacan, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Abbeygormacan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

464 people lived in 162 households in the Abbeygormacan electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyfintan, Castletown, Drumatober, Drumeyre, Foxhall, Foxhall Little, Gortymadden, Kilbride

Placenames

Liscoyle 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.