Lissard

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lissard, from 4,916 m² (0.49 ha, 1.21 acres) to 264,413 m² (26.44 ha, 65.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Lissard 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.

• 20 Mar 2025Refused

  proposed new two storey dwelling house, augmentation of access road to existing entrance, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2560046

• 4 Jul 2019Conditional

  proposed new two storey dwelling house, augmentation of access road to existing entrance, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter area and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 19176

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 Lissard.

Recorded monuments

• LF015-031 Castle - motte and bailey
  Description

  On a low rise in pasture. Named 'Moat & Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Described in 1975 (SMR file) as the remains of a motte with a bailey to its E. The motte was encircled by a fosse with an external bank. The bailey was enclosed by a low earthen bank with a shallow external fosse. There was an entrance to the bailey at E. The monument has since been levelled and is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 March 2012

• LF015-032 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  On a prominent rise in pasture, within the demesne of 'Lissard House'. Not indicated on the OS 6-inch map (1837). Represented as a sub-circular raised area on the OS 25-inch plan (1911). This has been levelled and there are no remains visible at ground level. It is very likely that this was a designed landscape feature. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF015-033 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  On a low rise c. 40m to the NNE of 'Lissard House'. Described by Coad (1832, 288) as the ‘ivy covered ruin of an old castle, which was the ancient residence’. Depicted on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a square building with the designation 'Ruins' in the typeface used by the OS to indicate antiquities. There are no remains now visible at ground level and the precise nature and date of this structure are unknown. 'Lissard House' was levelled in the 1950s. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 5 November 2012

• LF015-034 Designed landscape feature
  Description

  Indicated as a square tree-covered enclosure on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is not recorded on the OS 25-inch plan (1911) though its four corners are marked by individual trees. It consists of a raised rectangular area (dims. c.26m N-S; c.19m E-W) enclosed by two low earthen banks with shallow intermediate fosse. Original entrance not recognisable. The internal ground level rises from the perimeter to form a low mound at the centre. It is similar to another square enclosure (LF015-039----) c. 100m to the SE and the remains probably are a landscape feautre within the demesne of Lissard House. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF015-035 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  Indicated as a subcircular tree-covered enclosure on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, it is represented as an embanked enclosure on the OS 25-inch plan (1911). It was levelled in the late 1960s (SMR file) and the visible remains comprise a subcircular enclosure (40m NNW-SSE; 30m WSW-ENE) defined by a very low bank and fosse. This is likely to be a landscape feature associated with Lissard House. Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF015-039 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  Raised subrectangular area (c. 23m NNW-SSE; c. 19m ENE-WSW) enclosed by two low earthen banks with shallow intermediate fosse. The fosse and outer bank are much denuded due to cattle trampling. No entrance is recognisable. It is similar to another square enclosure (LF015-034----) - now levelled - c. 100m to the NW and the remains probably are a landscape feautre within the demesne of Lissard House. Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF015-040 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In a forestry plantation on a low natural elevation. Marked as a roughly circular enclosure, planted with trees, with the designation ‘Fort’ on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This possible rath has been partly levelled. It is visible as a roughly oval raised area (c. 20-25m N–S; c. 17-20m E–W) defined by a low broadly sloping scarp (H c. 1.2m) that is easiest to trace from E–SE–S where it merges with a natural fall of ground, giving an overall drop in height at E of c. 2m. From SW–W–NW it (H c. 0.5m) is lower and less well defined. At N it is difficult to determine the exact limits of the monument as it and its immediate surroundings are planted with beech and Scots pine, representing an older phase of planting, and these trees are surrounded by a more recent, densely planted coniferous plantation with birch trees on the margins. There is no clearly defined break of slope between the flat interior and the scarp. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 9 January 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 Lissard, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1842 (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.

No address of the register names Lissard with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Lissard · An Lios Ard

Area

1,082,524 m² (108.25 ha, 267.5 acres)

Civil parish

Clonbroney, and its townlands

Barony

Granard

Electoral division

Knockanbaun, the unit of the census

Census 2022

188 people lived in 61 households in the Knockanbaun electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bracklon, Cartronreagh, Cranalagh More, Firmount, Kiltykeary, Knockanbaun or Whitehill, Lismagoneen, Lisnageeragh, Rinvanny, Sheeroe

Placenames

Lissard 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.