Lissygreaghan

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lissygreaghan, from 1,664 m² to 101,781 m² (10.18 ha, 25.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Lissygreaghan 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 Nov 2020Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, proprietary treatment system, percolation area and associated works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 20460

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 Lissygreaghan.

Recorded monuments

• RO048-088001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a slight rise in an undulating landscape. Subcircular grass-covered platform with some deciduous trees (dims 36m NNE-SSW; 30.2m WNW-ESE) defined by a scarp (H 1.2-1.8m) E-S-W merging into the slope elsewhere, with traces of a silted fosse (Wth of top 4.4m; Wth of base 1m; D 0.25m) SE-SW. The interior is overlain by a WNW-ESE field wall, and the church (RO048-088002-) is S of this feature. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-088002 Church
  Description

  In the S interior of rath (RO048-088001-). This is a rectangular masonry structure (ext. dims 18.6m WNW-ESE; 6.3m NNE-SSW), of which the N and S walls survive (Wth 0.6m; H 1.4m) with two slit windows on each wall and an entrance towards W end of the N wall. The E and W walls are reduced to the foundations. It is locally regarded as a penal church. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-093 Barrow - mound barrow
  Description

  Marked only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a small feature (diam. c. 10m), and situated on a slight N-S esker ridge. Subcircular earthen mound with deciduous trees (diam. of base 16.7m WNW-ESE; 15m NNE-SSW; H 1m N-E to 1.5m at S) with a gently rounded summit (dims 9.3m WNW-ESE; 8m NNE-SSW). Cashels (RO048-094----; RO048-095----) are c. 160m to the ENE and c. 70m to the S respectively. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-095 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On the crest of a N-S esker ridge. Circular grass-covered platform with some trees (diam. 34.5m NE-SW; 33m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (at SSW: Wth 4.15m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1m) with inner and outer stone facing-stones (original Wth 1.5-1.6m) visible SSE-WSW, but the perimeter is overlain by field walls elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. Cashel (RO048-094----) is c. 180m to the ENE and barrow (RO048-093----) is c. 70m to the N. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 Lissygreaghan, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1489 (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 Lissygreaghan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Lissygreaghan

Area

418,526 m² (41.85 ha, 103.42 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltoom, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone South

Electoral division

Ballynamona, the unit of the census

Census 2022

547 people lived in 178 households in the Ballynamona electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycreggan, Carrowncloghan, Corramore, Gortacoosan, Keadagh, Lisbaun

Placenames

Lissygreaghan 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.