Lislea

43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lislea, from 21 m² to 92,596 m² (9.26 ha, 22.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Lislea 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.

• 9 Oct 2025Conditional

  - RED III - for 10-year planning permission for the provision of a Battery Energy Storage System and compound on a site of c. 1.27ha to support the adjacent permitted solar farm (CCC Reg. Ref.: 21/510). The Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) compound will accommodate self-contained Lithium Ion Phosphate batteries, within 14 no. BESS units, and 3 no. twin skid units and a single skid unit. A control room (c. 27.6m2) is proposed to the west of the compound. The proposed development includes for all associated development, boundary treatments, security fencing, site access works, ducting and cabling and all associated ancillary works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560603

• 29 Sept 2025N/a

  - RED III - for a 10-year planning permission for the provision of a Battery Energy Storage System and compound on a site of c. 1.27ha to support the adjacent permitted solar farm (CCC Reg. Ref.: 21/510). The Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) compound will accommodate self-contained Lithium Ion Phosphate batteries, within 14 no. BESS units, and 3 no. twin skid units and a single skid unit. A control room (c. 27.6m2) is proposed to the west of the compound. The proposed development includes for all associated development, boundary treatments, security fencing, site access works, ducting and cabling and all associated ancillary works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560580

• 17 Nov 2023Conditional

  to alter the location fo previously approved slatted shed with underground storage tank and all ancillary site works (Planning Ref. No. 23/277)

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 23314

• 16 Aug 2023Conditional

  to construct a slatted shed with underground storage tank and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 23277

• 16 Aug 2021Conditional

  to amend the approved development (Planning Reference: 16/507) of a temporary (25 years) solar farm to include photovoltaic panels with mounting frames on screw pile foundations, inverters, transformers, substation, DNO building, communications building, security fencing, pole mounted security cameras, minor upgrades to existing site entrance and all other ancillary works. It is expected that the proposed development will have an output of up to 5 megawatts (MW). Amendment proposed is as follows: increase the output from 5 Megawatts (MW) to 7 Megawatts (MW)

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 21510

• 30 Apr 2021Conditional

  to demolish existing store & construct a domestic garage and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21248

• 7 Nov 2018Conditional

  to construct a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, form new site entrance onto private laneway and install proprietary mechanical wastewater treatment system

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 18468

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 Lislea.

Recorded monuments

• CV017-049 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Not marked on any OS 6-inch map, and a castle at Lislea (430) is not marked on the Down Survey barony map (1656-8). See this web-page accessed on 8 April, 2016: http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/down-survey-maps.php#bm=Tulloghgarvey&c=Cavan Situated near the summit of a high drumlin hill. Known as 'Castle Saunders' and thereby believed to be the site of a Saunderson stronghold (local information). There are no visible remains at ground level apart from a pile of stones. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 11 April, 2016

• CV017-050 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked 'Fort' on OS 1836 ed. and 'Site of' on 1876 ed. Raised oval area (int. dims. c. 43m NE-SW; c. 35m NW-SE) enclosed by an earthen bank which has been much modified and incorporated into the field boundary from ENE-S-WNW and survives elsewhere as a low scarp. From SSW-WNW a laneway runs outside it, possibly on the site of an external fosse. Original entrance not recognisable. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Lislea with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Lislea

Area

750,846 m² (75.08 ha, 185.54 acres)

Civil parish

Kildrumsherdan, and its townlands

Barony

Tullygarvey

Electoral division

Cootehill Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cootehill Rural electoral division: 1,138 people in 412 households; 80% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annaghlee, Campstown, Drumhose, Drumman, Drumsivney, Magheranure, Pottleboy

Placenames

Lislea 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.