Liscarney

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Liscarney, from 511 m² to 3,406 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Liscarney 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.

• 4 Dec 2018Conditional

  permission for the construction of a 38kv electricity substation, switchroom and equipment compound with palisade fence; the construction of approximately 400m of site access track and the upgrading of approximately 150m of existing agricultural track and an existing agricultural site entrance; approximately 200m of underground cabling and all associated site development and reinstatement works in the townland of Luppan, County Monaghan; and (ii) the installation of approximately 22km of 38kV electricity cables from the proposed substation to the existing electricity substation in the townland of Lisdrumdoagh, County Monaghan. The electricity cables will comprise approximately 17km of overhead line and approximately 5 km of underground line. Overhead lines will consist of 3 no. cables suspended from wooden poles with a maximum height of 16 metres, and all associated site development and reinstatement works. Underground cables will be located within private lands and within the public roads numbered L5171, L1400 and L1171; will be installed in excavated trenches of approximately 1.2m in depth and will include associated underground ducting, joint bays, communication chamber bays, sheath link boxes and inspection chambers; directional drilling beneath the N12 and Ulster Canal and all associated site development and reinstatement works. A vehicle access track of up to 4m in width will be provided immediately adjacent to underground cables with private lands. This planning application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Report which includes an assessment of the likely impacts of the proposed development, as a whole and in combination with the relevant off-site or secondary developments which will occur as a direct result of the proposed development, including the wind farm development permitted pursuant to Monaghan County Council Planning Register Reference 10/110 & An Bord Pleanála Reference PL18.240760 and proposed to be amended by planning reference 17/258 & An Bord Pleanála Reference PL18.300998 (currently under construction). A Natura Impact Statement will also be submitted to the planning authority with the planning application. This application is accompanied by an EIAR. Significant Further information has been submitted.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 18562

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 Liscarney.

Recorded monuments

• MO009-031 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located just S of the summit of a drumlin. This is a circular grass-covered orchard (diam. 41.6m NE-SW; 40m NW-SE) defined by a scarp (at SSW: Wth 2m; H 2m) and an outer fosse (at SSW: Wth of top 8m; Wth of base 5m; ext. D 0.2m) NE-S-NW, but the perimeter is reduced to a shallow fosse (Wth of top 8.5m; int. D 0.5m; ext. D 0.2m) NW-NE and occupied by a lane NE-SE. The original entrance is not identified. Liscarney House is c. 80m to the NE and its farm buildings are just to the NE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 13 December 2017

Architectural heritage

• Liscarney House, house, 1780–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached irregular-plan two-storey four-bay house, built c.1800 and remodelled c.1880, with attic, having projecting end-bay to north-west elevation, and central return and single-storey extension to rear (south-west) elevation. Slate roof, hipped to return and south-east elevation, pitched to north-west. Overhanging eaves with timber eaves brackets, red brick chimneystacks, and mixed cast-iron and replacement rainwater goods. Decorative timber bargeboards to pitched roof. Coursed rubble sandstone and limestone to front, rear and south-east elevations, random rubble cladding to north-west elevation and rear of return, roughly squared block-and-start quoins. Gauged brick square-headed window openings throughout, having red brick block-and-start surrounds, replacement uPVC windows imitating six-over-six pane timber sliding sash. Tooled stone sills to front, masonry sills to sides and rear. Gauged-brick round-headed window opening to rear return, masonry sill, brick surround and replacement uPVC window. Gauged-brick square-headed door opening to north-west elevation of main block to front, single-leaf timber panelled door having overlight and red brick block-and-start surrounds, opening onto render platform. Gauged-brick square-headed door and window openings to rear of extension and to south-east of return with red-brick surrounds, replacement uPVC doors and windows. Six-bay two-storey outbuilding, adjoining north-west elevation of house, to rear, with pitched corrugated-iron roof and coursed rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings having render sills, red brick surrounds, gauged-brick segmental-headed openings, all openings blocked. Coursed rubble wall enclosing yard to rear with double-leaf steel gate. Coursed rubble stone wall and hedge enclosing garden to front of house, single-leaf wrought-iron gate flanked by fluted cast-iron columns to wall to south-east of house. Three-bay single-storey gate lodge to road entrance, with pitched tiled roof having red-clay ridge tile ridge cresting and finials, rendered walls, gabled porch with red-clay tile cresting, polychrome walls with limestone plinth blocks and replacement timber door and uPVC windows. Gateway comprises square-plan polychrome brick piers with ovolo moulding to corners, chamfered plinths and caps, and decorative double-leaf wrought-iron gate, flanked by polychrome brick walling.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2373 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Liscarney with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Liscarney · Lios Carnaí

Area

256,488 m² (25.65 ha, 63.38 acres)

Civil parish

Tehallan, and its townlands

Barony

Monaghan

Electoral division

Tehallan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tehallan electoral division: 905 people in 307 households; 84% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghnasedagh, Carn, Cavanreagh, Drumrutagh, Lisnanore

Placenames

Liscarney 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.