Lisgillalea
Townland in the civil parish of Tisrara, barony of Athlone North, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 82.2 ha
- 203 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 23,997 m² (2.4 ha, 5.93 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisgillalea, from 2,175 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres) to 381,523 m² (38.15 ha, 94.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Lisgillalea 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 Jan 2022Conditional
Permission for erection of dwelling house with sewerage treatment plant and percolation area and ancillary site development works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2237
16 Mar 2018Conditional
For the refurbishment and extension to existing dwelling house together with the installation of a waste water treatment system/percolation area and all necessary site services/ancillary siteworks at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 18122
28 Feb 2018N/a
for the refurbishment and extension to existing dwelling house together with the installation of a waste water treatment system/percolation area and all necessary site services/ancillary site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 1888
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 Lisgillalea.
Recorded monuments
- RO044-008 Ringfort - rath
Description
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) only on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on a gentle SW-facing slope, and visible as a cropmark (diam. c. 30m) of a bank feature on vertical aerial photographs (GSIAP: M217-6). It is also visible on Bing images (c. 2013) but it is not visible at ground level in pasture. The rath (RO044-007----) is c. 70m to the N. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO044-011 Ringfort - rath
Description
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 50m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and situated on a level landscape. It is visible as a cropmark (diam. c. 30m) defined by a bank feature on vertical aerial photographs (GSIAP: M217-6; OSAP: 2000), but is not visible at ground level in a cereal crop. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 17 August 2018
Architectural heritage
- Bushypark House, country house, 1715–1725 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey country house over basement, built c.1720, with gabled return to rear and two-storey addition to rear. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast-rendered walls, with cement render to basement. Six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to ground floor and replacement two-over-two pane to first floor, with tooled limestone sills. Round-headed window opening to rear elevation. Windows set in recesses to side elevations. Octagonal window to attic storey in entrance bay. Round-headed doorway with tooled limestone block-and-start surround, decorative fanlight and timber battened door with iron studs and door furniture.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1309 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Lisgillalea with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Lisgillalea
- Area
- 821,880 m² (82.19 ha, 203.09 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tisrara, and its townlands
- Barony
- Athlone North
- Electoral division
- Lismaha, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Lismaha electoral division: 365 people in 143 households; 89% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloonca, Derrinlurg, Kilnagralta, Lisduff, Lismaha, Mount Talbot
- Placenames
- Lisgillalea 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.