Lisheen
Lisheen is a townland in the civil parish of Uskane, barony of Ormond Lower, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is An Lisín.
Parcel 582055
- Area
- 9,616 m² (0.96 ha, 2.38 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 275 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
- Lisheen
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
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 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 this parcel.
- 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
- 227 ha
- 561 acres
- Land parcels
- 43
- registered freehold, median 9,658 m² (0.97 ha, 2.39 acres)
- Zoning
- S5
- Social and Public
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisheen, from 82 m² to 458,360 m² (45.84 ha, 113.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 46 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
- S5Social and Public (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Amenity (Open space, park)
Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
26 Feb 2026Conditional
dwelling house, entrance, domestic garage, on site waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2627
29 Aug 2025Conditional
the construction of an extension to the rear of the existing dwelling house, carry out alterations to the existing house, to demolish existing domestic garage and to construct a proposed new domestic garage, to include connection to the existing services on site and all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560853
18 Oct 2021Conditional
to construct a dwelling house and domestic garage, to include a treatment system and percolation area, new site entrance and connection to the existing water mains services and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 211533
23 Jul 2020Conditional
design change to dwelling of previously granted planning permission (reference number 18601263)
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 20804
29 Mar 2019Conditional
to construct and install 1) new public footpaths 2) public lighting columns with lights 3) surface water drainage including roadside gully traps and soakpits 4) electrical ducting works 5) new boundary fencing and hedging and 6) removal of existing roadside ditch, all completed with associated siteworks
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19600298
21 Mar 2019N/a
to construct and install 1) new public footpaths 2) public lighting columns with lights 3) surface water drainage including roadside gully traps and soakpits 4) electrical ducting works 5) new boundary fencing and hedging and 6) removal of existing roadside ditch, all completed with associated siteworks
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19600257
19 Oct 2018Conditional
new dwelling house, entrance, domestic garage, onsite waste water treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 18601263
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Fiagh Bog 000932
Recorded monuments
- TN007-026 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a low rise of ground in undulating countryside. Depicted as an almost square enclosure on the 1st ed. (1840) OS 6-inch map. Not visible at ground level. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
- TN007-027 Moated site
Description
Situated on level pasture in undulating countryside. A poorly preserved roughly rectangular-shaped area ( dims. 45m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank (Wth 1m; ext. H 0.5m; int. H 0.3m) reduced to a scarp in most places, with an external fosse (Wth 3m) which has been altered at SE. The bank and outer fosse are visible from SW through W to NW only. A possible collapsed souterrain or well (L. 4.5m; Wth 1.9m; D 2m) with a waterlogged interior is located in the NW sector of the enclosure with a drystone wall surviving five courses high. There is no evidence of a roof over the open passage. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
Architectural heritage
- Catholic Church of Saint Michael the Archangel, church/chapel, 1890–1895 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding cruciform-plan gable-fronted Catholic church, built 1893, having three-stage bell tower with short spire to north end of front, sacristy to southeast corner and porch to west door. Pitched artificial slate roof with leaded fish-scale roof to spire. Rusticated limestone walls with ashlar limestone porch and upper stages of tower. Buttresses to corners of building and between windows of nave. Pinnacles to tower and octagonal pinnacled turret to opposite end of façade and stone cross finials to gables with metal cross finials to tower. Moulded and decorative string courses to tower and cut-stone banding elsewhere. Cut-stone surrounds to openings with hood-mouldings to pointed doorways. Lancet windows to nave with replacement small-pane windows. Triple lancet windows to west front and to chancel, the latter with stained glass. One-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to ground stage of bell tower, oculus windows and pointed louvres to upper. Replacement timber battened doors throughout. Detached single-storey service building to southeast corner having pitched slate roof and coursed rubble walls with squared stone quoins and cut stone to doorways. Limestone boundary walls with rusticated ashlar piers with decorative pyramidal caps and wrought-iron gates to site.
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 Lisheen, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lisheen.
- 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 Lisheen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Lisheen · An Lisín
- Area
- 2,270,307 m² (227.03 ha, 561.01 acres)
- Civil parish
- Uskane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ormond Lower
- Electoral division
- Aglishcloghane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 267 people lived in 107 households in the Aglishcloghane electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballycormuck, Cloonawillin, Coorevin, Derrinvohil, Feigh, Feigh East, Feigh West, Fortmoy, Gortnahulla, Kylebeg, Loughaun, Uskane
- Placenames
- Lisheen 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.