Lislea

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lislea, from 218 m² to 285,729 m² (28.57 ha, 70.61 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 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.

• 25 Jun 2026N/a

  construction of a livestock handling facility and underground slatted slurry storage tanks and all associated site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2660197

• 27 Jun 2025N/a

  the proposed new entrance and access road to existing dwelling and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2560135

• 5 Apr 2024Refused

  the proposed construction of a detached single storey dwelling inclusive of access entrance, boundary fence as per the enclosed site layout plan, proprietary treatment system and percolation area as per manufacturer, EPA and local authority requirements outlined as per submitted drawings and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2460063

• 22 Jun 2021Conditional

  to retain machinery storage shed, and all associated works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 21193

• 4 Dec 2020Conditional

  to renovate and construct an extension to existing dwelling, a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area. Permission is also sought to alter existing entrance and boundary to the east, construct a new garage and decommission existing septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 20297

• 20 Mar 2019Conditional

  and continuation of alterations to plans and site plan of previously approved planning application Ref. No. 17/282 and all associated site works

  Retention · Longford County Council, 1976

• 31 Jan 2019N/a

  and continuation of alterations to plans and site plan of previously approved planning application Ref. No. 17/282 and all associated site works

  Retention · Longford County Council, 1921

• 31 Oct 2017Conditional

  for the proposed construction of a Two Storey Dwelling House, Detached Garage, Entrance, Boundary Fence/Wall, Proprietary Wastewater Treatment System with Percolation area and all site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 17282

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

• LF023-043 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low rise in well-drained pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. The monument is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF023-044 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a very gentle S-facing slope in pasture. Depicted as an oval-shaped enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded a raised oval area (c. 47m NW-SE; c. 36m NE-SW) enclosed by a substantial bank of earth and stone with fragmentary traces of an external fosse. Both the bank and fosse had been extensively modified and incorporated into a field boundary from W-N-NE. The original entrance may have been at E. The rath has since been levelled. Its location is marked by a low, irregular rise (H 0.2m). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 16 January 2012

• LF023-045 Enclosure
  Description

  On a very gentle S-facing slope in pasture. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded a raised subrectangular area (c. 43m NE-SW; c. 36m NW-SE) enclosed by a bank of earth and stone with a wide, deep, external fosse. The original entrance was not recognisable. The monument is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF023-050 Burial ground
  Description

  In wet, low-lying pasture. Described in 1976 (SMR file) as a small subcircular rise (c. 25m N-S; c. 23m E-W) that was surrounded by a low irregular bank. It was believed locally to be the last remnants of an old churchyard where burials took place up to the late 1800s. The monument has since been levelled and is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 10 June 2013

• LF023-051 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle SW-facing slope. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded a raised circular area (diam. c. 40m) enclosed by a bank of earth and stone with an external fosse. The original entrance was not recognisable. The monument is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF023-052 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle S-facing slope in pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A raised circular area (diam. c. 39m) enclosed from NNW-N-ESE by a much-denuded, low bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.2m; H 0.2m) and defined elsewhere by a scarp (H 0.3-0.5m). A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded a shallow external fosse; it has since been infilled. A break (Wth 2m) in the bank at E may mark the original entrance. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 16 January 2012

• LF023-053001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle SSE-facing slope in low-lying pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the OS Fair Plan and on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded a raised subcircular area (c. 27m E-W; c. 25m N-S) enclosed by fragmentary remains of a low bank of earth and stone. There was no trace of a fosse and the original entrance was not recognisable. Immediately to the E of the centre of the interior were the remains of a possible house site (LF023-053002-). The rath is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF023-053002 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Within the interior of a rath (LF023-053001-), immediately to the E of the centre. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded the remains of a possible square house site (c. 5m N-S; c. 5m E-W). Not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 20 June 2012

• LF023-115 Standing stone
  Description

  On the summit of a high, windswept hill affording panoramic views over the surrounding countryside. This much-weathered, irregularly shaped, limestone boulder (H 1.9m; Wth 0.9m; T 0.75m) tapers to a point and is aligned ENE-WSW. (ITA Survey 1944) Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 1 March 2012

Architectural heritage

• Lislea House, outbuilding, 1820–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Complex of two-storey outbuildings arranged around a yard to the rear (northwest) of Lislea House (13402305), built c. 1823 and c. 1865 (date stones). Comprising a six-bay two-storey range to the northeast side of yard, a five-bay two-storey outbuilding to the northwest, a two-bay two-storey outbuilding to the west, and a three-bay two-storey outbuilding to the southwest. Pitched natural slate roofs with cut stone eaves courses to a number of ranges. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered chimneystack to gable ends to the range to the west side of yard. Rubble stone walls with roughly dressed stone quoins to the corners of a number of ranges. Roughcast rendered finish over rubble stone construction to outbuildings to the west and the northwest. Date stone inscribe ‘1865’ to northeast range. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills and having two-over-two timber sliding sash windows or timber louvered fittings. Square-headed doorways and loading bays (first floor level) having timber battened fittings, roughly dressed limestone lintels to some window and door openings. Brick block-and-start surrounds to some of the window and door openings to the northwest range, and to window openings of building to the southwest. Five segmental-headed carriage arches having dressed limestone voussoirs; carriage arch to the southeast end of outbuilding now infilled with timber battened fittings and fixed pane window. Two square-headed carriage arches to outbuilding to the west having dressed stone voussoirs. Modern or altered square-headed carriage arch to the centre of the outbuilding to the northwest having sliding metal door. Main entrance gateway to yard to the west side of yard comprising a pair of rendered rubble stone gate piers (on square-plan) with a pair of wrought-iron flat bar gates. Section of rubble stone wall to the northwest end of outbuilding to the northeast having integral square-headed pedestrian doorway with dressed stone lintel and timber battened door; date stone over inscribed ‘1823’. Set back from road in shared grounds with Lislea House. Single-bay summer house on hexagonal-plan to site having thatched roof, timber battened walls and multiple-pane windows to all faces. Located to the northwest of Barry and the east of Keenagh. Rendered and rubble stone boundary walls to site.

• Lislea House, gate lodge, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey (with attic level) gate lodge associated with Lislea House (13402305), built c. 1860. Now in use as a private house. Pitched natural slate roof with overhanging bracketed eaves and having central brick chimneystack. Rubble stone walls, partially rendered, with flush roughly dressed limestone quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings with brick reveals, six-over-six pane timber sash windows and stone sills. Central square-headed doorway to front elevation (southwest) having timber battened door with overlight, brick reveals and having dressed limestone plinth blocks. Moulded cut stone lintel over doorway. Located to the southwest of Lislea House (13402305), adjacent to northeast of associated gateway (not in survey). Set back from road in shared grounds to the northwest of Barry and the east of Keenagh.

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 Lislea, 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.

Terrain model

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

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 Lislea with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Lislea · An Lios Liath

Area

2,000,611 m² (200.06 ha, 494.36 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcommock, and its townlands

Barony

Moydow

Electoral division

Doory, the unit of the census

Census 2022

416 people lived in 156 households in the Doory electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barry, Cartronbrack, Corrabaun, Currycreaghan, Glenmore, Lisglassock, Loughan

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.