Liscahill
Liscahill is a townland in the civil parish of Mostrim, barony of Ardagh, Co. Longford. Its name in Irish is Lios Cathail.
Parcel 56441
- Area
- 95,551 m² (9.56 ha, 23.61 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 437 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Liscahill
Planning applications on this parcel
23 Apr 2024Refused
to construct a 5-bay slatted shed with creep area and all ancillary site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 2460076
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.
- LF020-008 Ringfort - rath
Description
Close to the base of the NE-facing slope of a ridge. A report in 1976 (SMR file) indicates that this raised circular area (diam. c. 28m) was enclosed by a bank of earth and stone and an external fosse. It is defined by a steep scarp (H 1-1.2m). A depression (Wth 2m) in scarp at SSE may mark the original entrance. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1874 (ZIP).
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 98.5 ha
- 243 acres
- Land parcels
- 24
- registered freehold, median 3,770 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Liscahill, from 106 m² to 226,232 m² (22.62 ha, 55.9 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Liscahill 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
23 Apr 2024Refused
to construct a 5-bay slatted shed with creep area and all ancillary site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 2460076
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Liscahill.
Recorded monuments
- LF020-008 Ringfort - rath
Description
Close to the base of the NE-facing slope of a ridge. A report in 1976 (SMR file) indicates that this raised circular area (diam. c. 28m) was enclosed by a bank of earth and stone and an external fosse. It is defined by a steep scarp (H 1-1.2m). A depression (Wth 2m) in scarp at SSE may mark the original entrance. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
- Bridge, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Double-arched road bridge over small unnamed stream (tributary of the Black River), built c. 1800. Rubble limestone construction spandrel walls and to parapets. Dressed limestone voussoirs to arches. Squared rubble limestone construction to arch barrels and to abutments. Rubble stone wing walls to either side (north and south). Located to the southeast of Edgeworthstown.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Liscahill, 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1844 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Liscahill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.
The townland
- Name
- Liscahill · Lios Cathail
- Area
- 985,392 m² (98.54 ha, 243.5 acres)
- Civil parish
- Mostrim, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ardagh
- Electoral division
- Ballymuigh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 237 people lived in 101 households in the Ballymuigh electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Barne, Bohernacross, Garryandrew, Garryconnell, Glen, Gneeve, Shantum, Tinnynarr
- Placenames
- Liscahill 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.