Liscallyroan

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Liscallyroan, from 594 m² to 120,946 m² (12.09 ha, 29.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Liscallyroan 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.

• 5 Jun 2024Conditional

  (a) demolish existing dwelling house, (b) construct replacement dwelling house and domestic garage, and (c) carry out upgrade works to the existing onsite wastewater treatment system with all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2460109

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 Liscallyroan.

Recorded monuments

• LE031-026 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a shelf towards the bottom of the SW-facing slope of a drumlin, and it is overlooking a col with a low drumlin c. 300m to the W. This is a grass and rush-covered D-shaped platform (dims 26m NW-SE; 26m NE-SW) defined by a scarp (H 0.5m at NE to 1m at SW) and a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of base 2-3m; ext. D 0.3-0.5m) NNE-S-NW, with slight traces of an external earthen bank (Wth of base 5.5m; H 0.3-0.5m) SSE-WNW. The original entrance is not identified, and the platform is truncated by a NE-SW field drain and bank at NW (L 17m). A N-S field bank that had slightly clipped the fosse at E had been removed by 1999. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 15 October 2019

• LE031-027 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located towards the top of the N-facing slope of a drumlin. This is a grass and rush-covered circular earthen platform (diam. 26m E-W; 24m N-S; H 0.4m at S to 0.75m at N) defined by an intermittently visible fosse (Wth 4m; D 0.25m). The original entrance is not identified. Rath (LE031-028----) is c. 80m to the SSE. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 15 October 2019

• LE031-028 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  : Located towards the top of the S-facing slope of a drumlin. This is a grass and scrub-covered circular area (int. diam. 26m E-W; 24m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (at W: Wth of base 2.5m; max. H 0.35m) and a slight external fosse (Wth 2m) suggested by lush vegetation. The original entrance is not identified and the monument is truncated slightly by a NW-SE field bank at SW. Rath (LE031-027----) is c. 80m to the NNW The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 15 October 2019

• LE031-029 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on the W-facing slope of the NNW-SSE spine of a drumlin. This is a grass and rush-covered circular area (int. diam. 28m N-S; 27.5m E-W) that slopes down to the SW. It is defined by an earthen bank (Wth of base 3.4m; int. H 0.1m generally to 0.3m at NE; ext. H 0.3m at NW to 0.95m at SW) with some bushes and an external fosse (Wth of base 1.9m; ext. D 0.2m). The original entrance is not identified. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 15 October 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 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, low (inferred).

Terrain model

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

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.

• Liscallyroan, Drumsna7 sales

Name

Liscallyroan · Lios Choillidh Ruáin

Area

639,898 m² (63.99 ha, 158.12 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltoghert, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Drumsna, the unit of the census

Census 2022

740 people lived in 284 households in the Drumsna electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aughriman South, Coolcreeve, Drumnadober, Killasanowl, Lisdauky, Lismoyle

Placenames

Liscallyroan 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.