Liscosker

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Liscosker, from 20 m² to 54,507 m² (5.45 ha, 13.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 46 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.

• M4Rural Settlements Consolidation Zoning (Built up area)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 42 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 22 Jun 2026Conditional

  The development will consist of the importation of inert soil and stone for infilling for restoration works along with the importation of selected C&D and bituminous material for recycling and reuse over an area of 3.2 Hectares and all other ancillary works and services. This site currently operates under a Waste Facility Permit reference WFP-MO-22-0065-01 which is due to expire in 2028. Upon the grant of planning, a revision of the Waste Facility Permit will be sought from Mayo County Council.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660488

• 16 Sept 2022Conditional

  SOIL RECOVERY FACILITY WITHIN AN APPLICATION AREA OF c.3.2 Ha

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 22802

• 13 May 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A QUARRY WORKSHOP (480M2)

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 21482

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 Liscosker.

Recorded monuments

• MA081-002001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a gravel ridge in undulating landscape. This rath is shown on the 1838 and 1919 OS 6-inch maps. It is depicted on the 1919 edition as an oval enclosure (c. 55m N-S; c. 40m E-W) enclosed by a fosse and an external bank, with the external bank truncated by a field boundary on the W arc. A souterrain (MA081-001002-) is indicated in the NE quadrant. The ridge has been quarried away, removing all trace of the rath. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 7 December 2021

• MA081-002002 Souterrain
  Description

  Located within a rath (MA081-002001-). A souterrain is indicated in the NE quadrant of a rath on the 1919 OS 6-inch map. Both the souterrain and the rath were destroyed when the ridge on which they were located was quarried away. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 7 December 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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 Liscosker, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Liscosker with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Liscosker · Lios Choscraigh

Area

685,861 m² (68.59 ha, 169.48 acres)

Civil parish

Aghamore, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Kilkelly, the unit of the census

Census 2022

961 people lived in 382 households in the Kilkelly electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 21% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyglass, Cloghvoley, Cloonturk, Falleighter, Kilkelly, Kilmore

Placenames

Liscosker 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.