Lismore

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lismore, from 30 m² to 522,479 m² (52.25 ha, 129.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 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.

• 21 Aug 2026N/a

  a) retention permission of existing calf rearing shed, dungstead and underground effluent tank b) retention permission of existing cubicle and feeding shed with underground slatted slurry storage tanks c) construction of an agricultural shed to include a new milking parlour, dairy & ancillary rooms, meal bin & water storage tank, drafting & handling facilities, waiting yard & underground slatted soiled water & slurry storage tanks and all associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2660567

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

• LA022-018001 Church
  Description

  Dedicated to St Canice and known as Kilkennybeg, the Little Church of St Canice. (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 131-132). Situated in undulating countryside. A church (L c. 19m, Wth c. 14m, wall T c. 0.9m) with evidence of a narrow ope in E gable, and remains of a broken-out doorway in W gable with narrow flat-headed ope overhead. Only the foundations of N wall survive. Headstones in the surrounding subrectangular graveyard (LA022-018002-) posdate 1700. No other features visible; remains appear to be that of an early church (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 131-2). Described by Carrigan as 'The Church of Lismore is 46 ft. 9 in. long, internally by 22 ft. 4 in. wide, and had no division into nave and chancel. Part of the east gable has fallen, bringing with it most of the east window, whichh, judging from what remains, was a few feet high and very narrow. The north side-wall is very much damaged; the western half stands to its original height, about 9 ft., is 34 in. thick and is excellently preserved. The west gable is 27 and a half ft. wide and 32 in. thick. The entrance door is in this gable, but, strange to say, not in the centre of the wall, being 4 and a half ft. nearer to the north than to the south end. It is round headed, inside and outside, the arch being turned with thin, small flags laid on end; it is 5 and a half ft. high; one of the sides is broken away, but the remaining side shows a decided incline after the usual fashion of Celtic doors. As far as it is now possible to form an estimate, the original width of the door, at the ground, must have been 3ft. 3 in. and at the turninb of the arch 3 ft. 1 in. In the centre of the same west gable, high up, there is a small, very narrow window, flat at top, and splaying internally; its sides are broken and its dimensions, consequently, cannot be taken. The east gable and the adjoining half of the south side-wall, batter to a height of three feet, are built of stones of ordinary size, and present no appearance of very high antiquity. The remaining half of the south side-wall and the west gable, rise perpendicularly from their foundations, are built of very small, thin flags and hardest grouting, and, taken in connection with the inclined entrance door, must be assigned to a date anterior, perhaps by some centuries, to the Norman Invasion' (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 131). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA022-018002 Graveyard
  Description

  In undulating countryside. Visible inscribed headstones post date 1700 AD. Square shaped graveyard (int. dims. 21m N-S; 26m E-W) enclosed by a stone wall as indicated on current ed OS 6-inch map. Church forms N boundary wall of graveyard. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

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

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

Terrain model

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

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 Lismore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Lismore · An Lios Mór

Area

733,429 m² (73.34 ha, 181.23 acres)

Civil parish

Aghaboe, and its townlands

Barony

Clandonagh

Electoral division

Kilcoke, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilcoke electoral division: 141 people in 53 households; 88% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardvarney, Barnasallagh, Bushfield or Maghernaskeagh, Grange More, Knockaroe

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.