Lisdoonan

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisdoonan, from 113 m² to 116,709 m² (11.67 ha, 28.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Lisdoonan 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.

• 27 Aug 2020Refused

  permission to retain existing mobile home (on a temporary basis), hardstanding gravel area and access to the site via the existing agricultural laneway from LT41013 and temporary planning permission for proposed onsite package wastewater treatment system & polishing unit, associated storm and foul drainage works, agricultural fence to site boundary and all other ancillary site works. Significant further information relates to the submission of a Traffic Survey Report.

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 20343

• 22 Mar 2017Conditional

  permission for a change of layout, design and increased ridge height from previously granted storey & a half style dwelling planning permission ref: 13/343 and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17130

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 Lisdoonan.

Recorded monuments

• MO028-059 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on top of a drumlin. This rath is depicted on McCrea’s map of County Monaghan (1793). It is an oval grass-covered area (dims 62m NE-SW; 52m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (at S: Wth 5.2m; int. H 1m; ext. H 2.6m) E-SW, which is incorporated into an overgrown earthen field bank (at N: Wth 4.6m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.7m) with an outer stone-facing elsewhere and forms the townland boundary with with Drumberagh SW-N. There is an outer fosse (Wth of top 5m; ext. D 0.8m) SE-WNW, with a slight outer bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.55m; ext. H 1.1m) SW-W. The entrance (Wth of base 3.2m) and causeway (Wth of top 3.3m; H 0.7m) are at SSE. 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: 6 December 2017

• MO028-061 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located towards the SE tip though not the top of a NW-SE spur. This is a circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 38.4m WNW-ESE; 36.6m NNE-SSW) defined by two earth and stone banks with some bushes separated by a rounded fosse. The entrance through the inner (Wth of base 1.1m) and outer (Wth of base 2m) banks and a causeway (Wth of top 3.2m; H 0.9m) are at SE. An oval sunken area (dims c. 10m E-W) runs through the inner bank at WNW and may be the remains of a souterrain. The monument has become overgrown since 1967 (Bing 2013). 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: 6 December 2017

• MO028-144 Linear earthwork
  Description

  Situated on a rise in a low-lying area between drumlins. A substantial grass-covered earthen bank (L 35m; Wth 1m at W to 6m; at E; max. H c. 1.5m) with some bushes runs E-W. Date of revised upload: 12 December 2017

• MO028-148 Mass-rock (present location)
  Description

  Situated on a steep NE-facing slope and just SE of the Roman Catholic church of Lisdoonan. A fragment of a mill-wheel that was never completed is a D-shaped stone (max. dims 2.25m x 1.3m; T 0.2-0.25m) with an unfinished central perforation (diam. 0.4m) and an unfinished edge. It is set up on two boulders with a level upper surface (H 0.7-0.85m) that is inscribed with ‘Leac an Aifrinn’ and an expanding cross (H 0.26m; span 0.16m). This was done c. 1913 when it was set up here but its original location, thought to be the top of Dunaree (Ó Gallachair 1957, 115), is unlikely, although it may have been in that townland. See the attached view _1 from N Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 20 June, 2016

Architectural heritage

• Saint Mary's Catholic Church, bell tower/stand, 1910–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron bell stand, erected c.1920, to south of church, comprising four fluted round-plan cast-iron columns with relief acanthus ornamentation. Cast-iron bell. Elaborate bracket system with decorative crosses. Fabricated by M. Byrne, Dublin, with maker's marks. Column bases are set in a recent raised plinth with chamfered edges and stone cladding, dated 2000.

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 Lisdoonan, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

• Lisdoonan, Carrickmacross6 sales

Name

Lisdoonan · Lios Dúnáin

Area

641,986 m² (64.2 ha, 158.64 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmoyne, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Bocks, the unit of the census

Census 2022

779 people lived in 246 households in the Bocks electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghacloghan, Cashlan East, Cashlan West, Drumberagh, Drumlurg

Placenames

Lisdoonan 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.