Liscolvan
Liscolvan is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmore, barony of Ballintober North, Co. Roscommon.
- Area
- 36.9 ha
- 91 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 8,654 m² (0.87 ha, 2.14 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Liscolvan, from 2,963 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres) to 125,042 m² (12.5 ha, 30.9 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Liscolvan 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
26 Mar 2024Conditional
Permission for proposed replacement of an existing Septic Tank System with an onsite sewerage system with polishing filter in accordance with EPA Code of Practice 2021 and all ancillary works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2460142
5 Aug 2020Conditional
to erect a new dwelling house and provide a sewerage system and a treatment plant, to provide secondary and tertiary treatment and all associated works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 20301
3 May 2019Conditional
to erect a new dwelling house and provide a sewerage system and a treatment plant, to provide secondary and tertiary treatment and all associated works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 19230
26 May 2017Conditional
for the construction of a new four bay slatted shed, a new four bay straw bedded shed, a manure pit, a meal bin and the roofing of the existing collecting yards together with all its associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 17238
15 May 2017N/a
for the construction of a new four bay slatted shed, a new four bay straw bedded shed, a manure pit, a meal bin and the roofing of the existing collecting yards, together with all its associated works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 17218
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Liscolvan.
Recorded monuments
- RO011-126 Ringfort - rath
Description
Towards the W end of a low E-W drumlin ridge. D-shaped overgrown area (dim. c 25m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4-5m; int. H 0.4-0.9m; ext. H 0.7-1.2m) and outer fosse (Wth of top 4-5m; D 0.3-1m) NW-NE, and by straight field banks elsewhere, especially E-W at S. There is no visible entrance. Rath (RO011-159----) is c. 140m to the ENE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO011-130 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a low-lying landscape between drumlins. Circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 32m) defined by an overgrown and gapped earthen bank (Wth 3.5-4.5m; int. H 0.2-0.5m; ext. H 0.9-1.3m) with internal facing stones N-S-W, and a scarp (H 1m) elsewhere, with an outer fosse (Wth of top 3m; D 0.1-0.2m) NW-N. There is no recognizable entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO011-159 Ringfort - rath
Description
On an E-facing slope at the E end of a low E-W drumlin ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 24-25m) defined by a barely discernible scarp (H 0.2-0.7m). There is no visible fosse or entrance. Rath (RO011-126----) is c. 140m to the WSW. 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 Liscolvan.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Liscolvan, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Liscolvan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Liscolvan
- Area
- 369,351 m² (36.94 ha, 91.27 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballintober North
- Electoral division
- Cloonteen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 312 people lived in 124 households in the Cloonteen electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghawaracahill, Carrowmore, Corbaun, Cornasleehan, Kilbride, Knockavreaneen, Moneyduff
- Placenames
- Liscolvan 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.