Lisnagirra

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisnagirra, from 231 m² to 126,342 m² (12.63 ha, 31.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Lisnagirra 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.

• 23 Oct 2020Conditional

  for the construction of a general purpose store / implement shed and for alterations to the existing site entrance onto the public road together with all necessary ancillary siteworks at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 20445

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 Lisnagirra.

Recorded monuments

• RO041-080 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a level landscape. Circular grass-covered but poached area (diam. 43.9m N-S; 42.7m E-W) defined by an earthen bank with some bushes (Wth 3.1-5m; int. H 0.4-0.5m; ext. H 0.75-1.6m) ESE-S-NNW which is incorporated into a field bank (Wth 2.1m; int. H 1.85m; ext. H 1.4m) NE-ESE, although the perimeter is truncated by a WNW-ESE field bank at N. There are traces of a fosse (Wth of top 4.2m; Wth of base 1.2m; D 0.1m) SE-WSW, and there are entrances at WNW (Wth 2m) and S (Wth 2m), the latter probably being original. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO041-082001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Towards the bottom of a gentle W-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 44.5m E-W; c. 44m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.3-5.1m; int. H 0.25-0.7m; ext. H 0.6-0.9m), which has been quarried away NW-N. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. The rath is at the S end of an enclosure (RO041-082002-) (dims c. 150m N-S; c. 130m E-W) defined by a fosse or track feature that is visible on the OSI aerial images (2000), but this is a modern feature. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 13 October 2015

• RO041-135 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  At the crest of a W-facing slope. Described in 1998 as a subcircular area (dims 30-38m) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 4m; H 0.3-0.6m) (SMR file) with no evidence of a fosse or entrance. It is now visible as an uneven grassy, slightly sunken area defined by a low scarp (H 0.2-0.5m) SE-W and a slight scarp down to the interior elsewhere. 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 Lisnagirra.

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 Lisnagirra, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1374 (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 Lisnagirra with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Lisnagirra

Area

1,066,772 m² (106.68 ha, 263.61 acres)

Civil parish

Athleague, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone North

Electoral division

Athleague East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

510 people lived in 184 households in the Athleague East electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowreagh, Glennanammer, Killeenadeema, Kilmore, Liscoffy (Kelly), Lisnasillagh

Placenames

Lisnagirra 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.