Lisfinny

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisfinny, from 1,381 m² to 334,918 m² (33.49 ha, 82.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Lisfinny 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.

• 25 Jul 2024Conditional

  for; (a) construction of a 2 storey dwelling, (b) construction of a domestic garage, (c) wastewater treatment system with polishing filter, (d) new site entrance and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 209.00 sqm (house) & 40.00 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 24218

• 14 Jul 2022Conditional

  for the following development: a) construction of a new dwelling, b) construction of a domestic garage/store, c) wastewater treatment system with percolation area, d) new site entrance and e) all associated external site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 295 sqm (house) & 60 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22873

• 22 Mar 2018Conditional

  of domestic shed/fuel store. Gross floor space of work to be retained 86.16 sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18342

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 Lisfinny.

Recorded monuments

• GA108-161 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pastureland. This subcircular rath (64m E-W; 60m N-S), in fair condition, is defined by a bank (Wth 2.6m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 2.2m) and external fosse (Wth 2.3m); a N-S running road clips the latter at W.There is an entrance gap (Wth 4m) at E. A possible souterrain (GA115-047001-), marked by a hollow, is evident in the N sector of the interior. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 15 January 2018

• GA108-161001 Souterrain
  Description

  In the N sector of the interior of a rath (GA108-161----). A wide shallow depression (L 7.5m) running E-W may mark the site of a souterrain. According to local information there is one in the interior. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 15 January 2018

Architectural heritage

• The Mill, mill (water), 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay two-storey mill, built c.1800. Now in use as farm outbuilding, with external stone staircase and lean-to extension to east elevation. Pitched and lean-to corrugated-metal roof with some cast-iron rainwater goods. Coursed rubble limestone walls. Square-headed window openings with timber lintels, brick reveals and voussoirs, and roughly cut stone sills, with cast-iron bars to north elevation. Square-headed door openings to ground and first floors, with timber battened doors. Camber-headed carriage arch with yellow brick voussoirs. Ruined elements including former mill race on west elevation. East elevation to farmyard. Four-bay two-storey miller's house adjoins, having pitched slate roof, rendered walls with plat bands and round-headed doorway with decorative petal fanlight.

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 Lisfinny, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Lisfinny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Lisfinny · Lios Finne

Area

777,061 m² (77.71 ha, 192.02 acres)

Civil parish

Donanaghta, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Meelick, the unit of the census

Census 2022

296 people lived in 100 households in the Meelick electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Eyrecourt Demesne, Fearmore, Gortnakilla, Lismafadda, Moyower, Prospect Demesne, Townparks

Placenames

Lisfinny 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.