Liss

65 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Liss, from 133 m² to 134,461 m² (13.45 ha, 33.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Liss 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.

• 24 Mar 2023Conditional

  to: a) demolish existing derelict dwellinghouse & b) construct a private dwellinghouse, proprietary effluent treatment system, percolation area & domestic garage along with all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 212.8 sqm + 33.75 sqm = 246.55 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23121

• 28 Sept 2020Conditional

  for the construction of an extension to an existing dwelling. Gross floor space of proposed works: 20 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201397

• 15 Jan 2020Conditional

  for the construction of an agricultural entrance to lands

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2027

• 29 Jan 2019Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, along with on-site sewage treatment system, domestic garage and all ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works: Dwelling - 228sqm, Garage - 42.60sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19114

• 7 Sept 2017Conditional

  to construct an access road along with a house, garage and a treatment plant. Gross floor space of proposed works 202sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171337

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 Liss.

Recorded monuments

• GA042-177 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In low-lying grassland. Very poorly preserved circular cashel (D c. 30m) defined by a low drystone wall from NE through S to W; no visible surface trace survives elsewhere. A field boundary cuts the monument at S and W. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA042-178 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On a rise in gently undulating grassland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1920) as an oval enclosure (c. 60m by c. 50m) defined by a curving field boundary from SSE through W to NNW and elsewhere by hachures. No visible surface trace survives of it or the 'Cave' (probable souterrain) (GA042-178001-) marked on OS 6-inch maps within it limits. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA042-178001 Souterrain
  Description

  In E half of an enclosure (GA042-178----). Named 'Cave' on OS 6-inch maps and marked thereon by a small dot. No visible surface trace surives. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA042-179 Enclosure
  Description

  On a S-facing slope in grassland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 40m). No visible surface trace survives. Another earthwork (GA042-180----) lay c. 150m to SW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA042-180 Enclosure
  Description

  On a S-facing slope in undulating pastureland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 20m), the W edge of which straddled the td. boundary. No visible surface trace survives. Two other earthworks (GA042-179----, GA042-181----) lay c. 150m NE and c. 20m to S respectively. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA042-181 Enclosure
  Description

  Close to td. boundary, c. 20m S of similar monument (GA042-180----). Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 30m). No visible surface trace survives. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA042-182 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In gently undulating grassland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1920) as a circular enclosure (D c. 30m) cu by a field boundary at E and SSW. No visible surface trace survives to N of this boundary. To S, the monument is defined by a collapsed grassed-over wall with traces of external revetment at S The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

• Barn, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay three-storey barn, built c.1860, similar to storage buildings associated with corn mills. Pitched slate roof. Coursed rubble limestone walls. Slightly camber-headed openings, those to top floor being slit vents, those to lower floors being square and some having bars. Doors to front elevation have camber arches with roughly dressed voussoirs and timber battened doors, and south-east gable has square-headed pitching doors to upper floors and round-headed vehicular entrance to ground floor. Rear elevation lacks doorways.

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 Liss, 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

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

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

Name

Liss · An Lios

Area

1,682,197 m² (168.22 ha, 415.68 acres)

Civil parish

Killeany, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Headford, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,864 people lived in 695 households in the Headford electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycolgan, Bunanraun, Cahernaheeny, Clooneen, Crossursa, Deerpark, Gortrory or Rogersfield, Rafwee, Skeaghbeg

Placenames

Liss 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.