Lismacmurrogh

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lismacmurrogh, from 981 m² to 190,394 m² (19.04 ha, 47.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Lismacmurrogh 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.

• 14 Nov 2025Conditional

  a RED III Application for a 10 year planning permission with an operational lifespan of 40 years. The development applied for consisted of a solar farm and energy storage compound with a total area of circa 111.1ha. The proposed solar farm development spans a total site area measuring circa 94.18ha. The export capacity to the grid is estimated to be up to 80 MW. The development will consist of a solar farm comprising of: · Installation of approximately 700,000 sqm solar PV panel arrays, to include approximately 355,000 sqm of ground mounted panels supported by steel frame structures, and the remaining area as solar array row spacing. · Installation of approximately 18 MV stations. · An energy storage compound consisting of 56 no. containerised energy storage modules and associated plant and equipment. · Installation of underground cabling and ducting, comprising approximately 1.8 km along the R397 and L5527 public roads. · Provision of temporary site compounds, welfare facilities, and secure materials storage areas. · Construction of circa 3,800m internal access tracks throughout the site. · Erection of approximately 550 m of security fencing around the BESS compound and pole-mounted CCTV cameras for site monitoring. · Construction and operational access via two existing entrances on the R397 and L5527 roads. · Landscaping and biodiversity enhancement measures. The proposed development will also include drainage and all ancillary development works and apparatus necessary to facilitate the proposed development. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been submitted to the Planning Authority with the application. The application may also be viewed/downloaded on the following website; https://www.bnrgballymahon.com/

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2560265

• 23 Jul 2021Conditional

  of 17/31 proposed storey and a half type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary wall/fence, suitable on site wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Extension of duration · Longford County Council, 21223

• 3 Feb 2017Conditional

  for proposed storey and a half type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary wall/fence, suitable on site wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 1731

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 Lismacmurrogh.

Recorded monuments

• LF023-081 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle S-facing slope in pasture. A raised oval area (c. 45m NW-SE; c. 36m NE-SW) enclosed by a much-denuded, low bank of earth and stone (Wth 2m; H 0.2-0.3m). A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded an external fosse and an outer bank, both of which have since been levelled. The original entrance is not recognisable. Outcropping rock protrudes from the interior. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 16 January 2012

Architectural heritage

• Lismacmurrough House, house, 1770–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement house, built c. 1790. Now in ruin. Pitched natural slate roof, now partially collapsed, having cut stone eaves course, cast-iron rainwater goods and rendered chimneystacks to gable ends (southwest and northeast). Raised cut stone verges to gable ends. Roughcast rendered walls with chamfered dressed limestone block-and-start quoins to the corners of the front facade. Render failing to rear exposing rubble stone construction. Chamfered dressed limestone string course to front elevation, located above basement level. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills and remains of six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with sash boxes set flush with facades. Central round-headed door opening to front elevation having tooled limestone surround with moulded limestone lintel and remains of timber panelled door. Fanlight formerly over doorway, now removed. Doorway accessed by a flight of moulded cut limestone steps. Set back from road in own grounds to the west of Barry. Main entrance gate to the southwest of house comprising a pair of dressed ashlar limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having chamfered plinths, moulded capstones and wrought-iron flat-bar gates. Rubble limestone boundary walls to road-frontage (west) and to site.

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 Lismacmurrogh, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1736 (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 Lismacmurrogh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Lismacmurrogh · Lios Mhic Mhurchaidh

Area

498,055 m² (49.81 ha, 123.07 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcommock, and its townlands

Barony

Shrule

Electoral division

Kilcommock, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,161 people lived in 410 households in the Kilcommock electoral division. 62% of households owned their home. 56% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cartronbrack, Corryena, Lislom, Tirlickeen

Placenames

Lismacmurrogh 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.