Liscam

0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Liscam. The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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 Liscam 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 Liscam 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 Liscam.

Recorded monuments

• RO048-006 Enclosure - large enclosure
  Description

  Located on a slight rise in an undulating landscape. An irregularly oval, domed and grass-covered area (dims 93m NE-SW; 56m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank best preserved N-ESE (at NE: Wth 6.5m; int. H 1.5m; ext. H 1.85m), with slight traces of an outer fosse (at NE: Wth of top 6m; Wth of base 2.4m; D 0.3m) NNW-NE. The perimeter survives as a low bank (at SW: Wth 2.5-3m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.45m) with slight traces of a possible inner fosse or silted drain (Wth 0.7m) S-NW. There is no identifiable original entrance. The perimeter is disturbed by quarrying ESE-S and overlain by two conjoined rectangular paddocks (dims 8.7m x 4m; 12m x 8m) defined by earthen banks at NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-007001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low-lying gently undulating landscape. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 41m NE-SW; 41m NW-SE) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 5-7.5m; int. H 0.6-0.7m; ext. H 1.65-2.35m) and an outer flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 7.2-7.7m; Wth of base 2.4-3m; D 1.25m). The entrance (Wth 3.2m) and causeway are at E. The burnt spreads (RO048-181001-; RO048-181003-; RO048-181005-; RO048-181006-), fulacht fia (RO048-181002-) and possible mill (RO048-181004-) are 70-200m distant SE-W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-181001 Burnt mound
  Description

  On a low-lying landscape in the valley of the upper Cross river, c. 120m W of rath (RO048-007001-). Circular scatter of broken and burnt stones (diam. 3.5m) in a black matrix visible in a ploughed field. Burnt mound (RO048-181002-) is c. 40m to the SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-181002 Burnt mound
  Description

  On a low-lying landscape in the valley of the upper Cross river, c. 110m SW of rath (RO048-007001-). D-shaped scatter of broken and burnt stones in a black matrix (dims 16m NW-SE; 5m NE-SW) visible in a ploughed field, and cut by a WNW-ESE field drain at SW. A portion of the grass-covered mound (dims 10.5m NW-SE; 2m NE-SW; H 0.6m) survives SW of the field drain. Some flints, including a flint javelin head, had been found nearby. Burnt mound (RO048-181001-) is c. 40m to the NW, and the burnt mound (RO048-181003-) is c. 10m to the E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-181003 Burnt mound
  Description

  On a low-lying landscape in the valley of the upper Cross river, c. 70m SW of rath (RO048-007001-). Oval scatter of broken and burnt stones (dims 10m x 6m) in a black matrix visible in a ploughed field. Burnt mound (RO048-181002-) is c. 10m to the W, and the burnt mound (RO048-181005-) is c. 90m to the SSW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-181004 Water mill - horizontal-wheeled
  Description

  On a low-lying landscape in the valley of the upper Cross river, c. 150m SW of rath (RO048-007001-). Two oak timbers were recovered in ploughing. One (L 3.1m; Wth 0.18m; T 07m) has a mortice (dims 0.1m x 0.07m) at either end while the other (L 1.3m; Wth 0.17m; T 0.02m-0.07m) is featureless. They were found c. 50m S of the burnt mound (RO048-181001-), although the precise location is not known. They may have been from a water mill, and what may have been a small millstone was held locally but is now lost. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-181005 Burnt mound
  Description

  On a low-lying landscape in the valley of the upper Cross river, c. 110m SE of rath (RO048-007001-). Oval scatter of broken and burnt stones (dims 12m x 5m) in a black matrix visible in a ploughed field, c. 90m SSW of the burnt mound (RO048-181003-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-181006 Burnt mound
  Description

  On a low-lying landscape in the valley of the upper Cross river. There is local information on a scatter of broken and burnt stones in a black matrix which is visible when the area is ploughed, although the precise location is not certain. Rath (RO048-007001-) is c. 110m to the N. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-182 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle SE-facing slope. Circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 35m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (at SSE: Wth 4.4m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.8m) largely reduced to a scarp (at WNW: H 0.75m). There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 Liscam, 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

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

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 Liscam with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Liscam

Area

277,712 m² (27.77 ha, 68.62 acres)

Civil parish

Cam, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone South

Electoral division

Caltragh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

279 people lived in 91 households in the Caltragh electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrick, Coolnageer, Kilcar

Placenames

Liscam 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.