Lissanure

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lissanure, from 958 m² to 286,041 m² (28.6 ha, 70.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Lissanure 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.

• 30 Jul 2025Conditional

  a new 80 (eighty) cow cubicle shed, with slatted tank under, mandling area, and 14 unit milking parlour - All under one roof. Upgrading of existing farm gate (access), new gates, timber piers & wing fencing, a new internal access farm pass and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2528

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 Lissanure.

Recorded monuments

• LF020-026 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In wet, low-lying pasture. Depicted as an oval enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A raised subrectangular area (c. 42m NE-SW; c. 30m NW-SE) enclosed from S-W-N by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 2.6m; H 0.4-0.5m) with an external fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.6m) that may have been recut in modern times. Elsewhere the defining element is a scarp (H 0.5m). From E-SE-SSE the circuit of the scarp has been straightened and there is a modern field drain at its base. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 17 January 2011

Architectural heritage

• Lissanure House, house, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1850, having porch with pitched natural slate roof to rear of the northeast elevation. Now out of use. Hipped natural slate roof with two rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Cement rendered walls over cement rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings with stone sills. And having mainly two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows; some six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to rear (northwest) and northeast elevation. Central square-headed door opening to front elevation (southeast) with overlight, sidelights and having timber panelled door Set back from road in own grounds to the southeast of Edgeworthstown. Detached three-bay single-storey outbuilding to rear with pitched natural slate roof with cut stone eaves course and central stone chimneystack, painted rendered rubble stonewalls, square-headed openings with timber fittings and elliptical-arched carriage arch with cut stone voussoirs. Multiple-bay single-storey range of outbuildings to rear with corrugated-metal and corrugated-asbestos roofs, rendered walls and square-headed openings with timber fittings. Main entrance gates to the northeast comprising a pair of chamfered limestone gate posts with ornamental cast-iron gates. Rendered rubble stone boundary walls to either side of gateway (northwest and southeast).

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 Lissanure, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1875 (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 Lissanure with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Lissanure · Lios an Iúir

Area

2,230,071 m² (223.01 ha, 551.06 acres)

Civil parish

Mostrim, and its townlands

Barony

Ardagh

Electoral division

Ballymuigh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

237 people lived in 101 households in the Ballymuigh electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barne, Cornapark, Derrydooan Lower (Co. Westmeath), Derrydooan Middle (Co. Westmeath), Glen, Gneeve, Kilsallagh, Lisnagrish

Placenames

Lissanure 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.