Lisnafana

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisnafana, from 47 m² to 208,475 m² (20.85 ha, 51.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Lisnafana 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.

• 15 Jul 2025Conditional

  for construction of storey & a half detached domestic garage and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560388

• 24 Apr 2024Conditional

  To construct a new two storey dwelling house with detached domestic garage, from new vehicular site entrance onto public roadway, installation of approved proprietary wastewater treatment system & percolation area, together with all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460161

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 Lisnafana.

Recorded monuments

• CV039-062001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 30m) enclosed by two substantial earthen banks with wide, deep, intermediate fosse. An earlier report (OPW 1969) suggested that the original entrance was at E. At the centre of the enclosed area is a small subrectangular area (int. dims. 4m E-W; 2m N-S) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stones which presumably represents a hut site. Extending WNW from the NW corner of the hut site are possible remains of a souterrain (CV039-062002-). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

• CV039-062002 Souterrain
  Description

  Situated within the interior of Lisnafana rath (CV039-062001-). A wide, shallow, rectangular depression (L 11m; Wth 3m; D 0.25m) projecting out from the NW corner of a hut site and running due NW to adjoin a break in the bank of the rath, may mark the site of a souterrain. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

• CV039-063 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Tradition of a 'Fort' at this location. Situated on the N slope of a drumlin hill. Not visible at ground level. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

• CV039-064 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 31m) enclosed by two earthen banks with wide, deep, partly waterlogged intermediate fosse. Outer bank identifiable only from E-S-SW and fosse visible only from N-S-WSW. Original entrance at E. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lisnafana.

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 Lisnafana, about 1 in 20 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 Lisnafana.

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 Lisnafana with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Lisnafana

Area

980,471 m² (98.05 ha, 242.28 acres)

Civil parish

Lurgan, and its townlands

Barony

Castlerahan

Electoral division

Virginia, the unit of the census

Census 2022

5,210 people lived in 1,733 households in the Virginia electoral division. 68% of households owned their home. 56% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cleggan, Correagh Glebe, Curraghmore, Drumgora, Pollamalady

Placenames

Lisnafana 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.