Lismore

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lismore, from 973 m² to 114,584 m² (11.46 ha, 28.31 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 Lismore 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.

• 17 Dec 2025Refused

  additional works and design changes carried out during the refurbishment and extension of Lismore House (Planning Ref. No. 23-60243). These works relate to a protected structure (RPS 375)

  Retention · Longford County Council, 2560301

• 2 Oct 2025Conditional

  of existing entrance that is servicing existing dwelling house that was granted full planning permission under planning reference number PL 23/60045 together with seeking full planning permission for the completion of same and all ancillary works

  Retention · Longford County Council, 2560219

• 22 Dec 2023Conditional

  to carry out refurbishment works to an existing two-storey farmhouse, to remove previous extensions and construct a two-storey extension to the rear (north-west) of same, to upgrade/replace the existing sewerage treatment system and to carry out necessary ancillary site works. The proposed works relate to a protected structure (RPS 375)

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2360243

• 9 Jun 2023Conditional

  construction of a two storey dwelling house, onsite wastewater treatment system with percolation area, boundary fence/wall, new entrance and ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2360045

• 9 Dec 2021Conditional

  to demolish an existing cottage (40sq.m) and to replace it with a similar style, single storey dwelling (120sq.m), to connect to existing services, to construct roadside boundary walls and entrance gate, and to carry out necessary ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 21340

• 21 May 2021Conditional

  proposed renovation and extension to existing two storey type dwelling house and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 21150

• 12 Aug 2020Conditional

  proposed construction of a two storey dwelling with single storey annex, roadside entrance, boundary fence, installation of a wastewater treatment system with percolation area, connection to existing services and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 20179

• 4 Jul 2018Conditional

  the proposed renovation and extension to existing two storey type dwelling house and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 18149

• 16 Jun 2017Conditional

  proposed construction of a two storey type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, septic tank and percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 17168

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 Lismore.

Recorded monuments

• LF013-007001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low but prominent drumlin ridge in pasture. A raised oval area (49.3m N-S; 40.2m E-W) enclosed by a much-denuded, low bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.4m; H 0.7m max.). Traces of the outline of a wide infilled external fosse (Wth 2.3m) are evident. The original entrance is not recognisable. The SW quadrant of the interior is largely occupied by an irregularly shaped enclosure (LF013-007002-). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF013-007002 Enclosure
  Description

  Within the SW quadrant of a rath (LF013-007001-). An irregular enclosure (22.1m NNE–SSW; 20.9m NNW–SSE) defined by the remains of a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 1.9m; max. H 0.2m). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 28 January 2012

• LF013-008 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a steep SW-facing slope in pasture overlooking an extensive area of low-lying ground. A raised subcircular area (38.7m NE-SW; 34.9m NW-SE) enclosed by a much-denuded, low bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.9m; H 1.3m max.) with an infilled external fosse (Wth 2.9m). There are modern entrances at NNW and SE. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• House, 1920–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1930, having flat-roofed single-bay single-storey entrance porch to the centre of the front elevation (southwest). Pitched natural slate roof with painted rendered chimneystacks with moulded heads to either gable end and cast-iron rainwater goods. Raised rendered verges to either end having rendered coping over. Painted lined-and-ruled rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, paired one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to ground floor, all having stone sills. Square-headed door opening to southeast side of porch with replacement door. Set back from road in own grounds to the northwest of Longford Town. Wrought-iron double-leaf flat bar gates to site boundary (west).

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 Lismore, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1694 (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.

No address of the register names Lismore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Lismore · An Lios Mór

Area

612,899 m² (61.29 ha, 151.45 acres)

Civil parish

Clongesh, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Caldragh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,690 people lived in 937 households in the Caldragh electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 55% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caldragh, Cartrons, Cleggill, Lamagh, Lisnabo, Minard, Moneylagan

Placenames

Lismore 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.