Lismerraun

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lismerraun, from 1,347 m² to 139,105 m² (13.91 ha, 34.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Lismerraun 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Lismerraun in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Lismerraun.

Recorded monuments

• SL047-028 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a gently sloping ridge. This possible rath is not visible at ground level. An arc of possible bank (C c. 40m) SE-NW on the W side of N-S field boundary is visible in an aerial photograph (ACAP, V227/35-6). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL047-029 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on the gentle S-facing slope of a ridge. A raised circular area (diam. 25m) enclosed by two earthen banks (inner bank: Wth 3m; int. H 0.75m; ext. H 1m; outer bank: Wth 4.5m) with an intervening fosse (Wth 2m) and an external (Wth 2.3m; D 0.75m) fosse. The perimeter is densely overgrown though the interior is clear of overgrowth. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL047-046 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on top of a ridge and immediately N of a lane. A raised circular area (int. diam. 23m) enclosed by an inner weathered earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.75m; ext. H 1.45m), an outer bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.75m; ext. H 1m) and an intervening fosse (Wth 3.5m). There is a possible entrance through the inner (Wth 2m) and outer banks (Wth 3.5m) in the W arc. Another rath (SL047-047----) lies c. 70m to E. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL047-047 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. A raised circular area (int. diam. 34m) enclosed by two earthen banks with an intervening fosse (Wth 4.7m) and an external fosse (Wth 4.7m; D 0.5m). The inner bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 1.1m) drops 2.1m to the base of the intervening fosse. The outer bank (Wth 5m; int. H 0.8m) drops 0.5m to the external ground level. An E-W trackway, indicated on the 1914 OS 6-inch map, crossed the interior leaving opposing gaps in the banks. Another trackway now curves around the perimeter. The level interior is divided by a recently built stone wall. Another rath (SL047-046----) lies c. 70m to W. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 Lismerraun, 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 high, moderately low, low.

Terrain model

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

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 Lismerraun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Lismerraun · Lios Uí Mhearáin

Area

804,754 m² (80.48 ha, 198.86 acres)

Civil parish

Killaraght, and its townlands

Barony

Coolavin

Electoral division

Killaraght, the unit of the census

Census 2022

456 people lived in 175 households in the Killaraght electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardlona, Ardmoyle, Lisgullaun, Rathtermon, Reask

Placenames

Lismerraun 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.