Lissagurraun

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lissagurraun, from 89 m² to 132,120 m² (13.21 ha, 32.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 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 Lissagurraun 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.

• 10 Sept 2025Conditional

  for (a) construction of an agricultural store & (b) retention for site clearance works onsite and all associated site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561290

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 Lissagurraun.

Recorded monuments

• GA081-019 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On NE end of a ridge. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 25m). No visible surface trace survives. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA081-020 House - vernacular house
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA081-033 Field boundary
  Description

  In an area of outcropping rock in flat pastureland. A report of a possible archaeological monument proved on inspection to an old field boundary (L c. 7m; H 0.6m) consisting of nine granite boulders running in a N-S direction (Connolly 1995). Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 23 October 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 Lissagurraun, 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 Lissagurraun.

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

Name

Lissagurraun · Lios an Gharráin

Area

636,884 m² (63.69 ha, 157.38 acres)

Civil parish

Moycullen, and its townlands

Barony

Moycullen

Electoral division

Moycullen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,459 people lived in 837 households in the Moycullen electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 52% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corboley (Lynch), Corcullen, Corcullen, Pollnaclogha

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Lissagurraun 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.