Lissycoyne

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lissycoyne, from 2,277 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres) to 152,302 m² (15.23 ha, 37.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Lissycoyne 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 Lissycoyne 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

• Special Area of Conservation: Unshin River SAC 001898
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Unshin River 001898

Recorded monuments

• SL034-118 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pasture, on the S side of a ridge top. An arc of earthen bank (L c. 15m; Wth 3m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 1.4m) with traces of an external fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.4m) are the remains of the S arc of a rath (diam. c. 25m) indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. At the W end of the surviving bank a linear earthen bank (L c. 10m; Wth 1.8m; H 0.6m) projects sharply northwards and may be of a more recent date. There is a quarry hollow (10m x 6m) c. 6m 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

• SL034-119001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, at the N end of a low ridge and in the N corner of a field. The slightly raised remains of a circular area (diam. c. 20m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 6.5m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 1.4m) E-SW. Elsewhere the bank has been replaced by linear field boundaries which form the N corner of the field. There is a souterrain (SL034-119002-) in the N half of the interior, just inside the field boundaries. There are mature beech trees in interior and the perimeter is overgrown with hawthorn bushes. 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

• SL034-119002 Souterrain
  Description

  In the N half of a rath (SL034-119001-). A stone-lined passage with a lintelled roof is visible through a small opening. 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

• SL034-120 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pasture, on a low ridge. A raised roughly circular area (21m N-S; 24m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.5m) with an internal revetment wall. An external fosse (Wth 4m; D 0.9m) is evident all round. A possible entrance (Wth 2m) is at SE. Mature trees and overgrowth along the perimeter. 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

• SL034-122 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on the SW side of a road and on a slight rise. A slightly raised circular area (23m N-S; 21m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 3.2m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.2m), the E arc of which forms part of the road boundary. The bank has a number of eroded gaps and mature trees grow on it. Remnants of internal stone facing were noted. 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 Lissycoyne.

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 Lissycoyne, 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_1184 (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 Lissycoyne with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Lissycoyne · Lios Uí Chomháin

Area

559,999 m² (56 ha, 138.38 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacallan, and its townlands

Barony

Tirerrill

Electoral division

Lakeview, the unit of the census

Census 2022

511 people lived in 185 households in the Lakeview electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagh, Bellarush, Drumraine, Sheerevagh, Whitehill

Placenames

Lissycoyne 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.