Lismacool

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lismacool, from 1,443 m² to 143,950 m² (14.39 ha, 35.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 Lismacool 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.

• 17 Aug 2018Conditional

  retention of a Garage and Two Storage Sheds at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 18416

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 Lismacool.

Recorded monuments

• RO016-089001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a S-facing slope. D-shaped grass-covered platform (dims 25.5m N-S; 22m E-W; H 0.7 at N to 1.4m at W) defined by a fosse (Wth of base 3.5m; D 0.5-0.9m) S-W-NE with an outer bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 0.4m) SW-W. There is no visible entrance. The site is truncated at SE by a quarry and NNE-SSE field bank separating it from rath (RO016-089002-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO016-089002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a S-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 41.5m N-S; 35m E-W) defined by a scarp with some bushes (H 1.2-1.45m) NNW-E-SW, and an outer fosse (Wth of base 5.5m; D 0.5-1m) N-SE, which is reduced to a berm (Wth 6m) SE-SW. There is no visible entrance, but the perimeter is quarried at W and a NNE-SSW filed bank separates the monument from rath (RO016-089001-) which is immediately to the NW, and rath (RO016-159----) is c. 170m to the ENE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO016-090 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle S-facing slope. Depicted on the 1914 ed. of the 6-inch map as a sub-triangular area (dims c. 35m N-S; c. 30m E-W) with the apex at S and overlaid by a N-S field bank towards the perimeter at W. Only the portion W of this field bank now survives as a D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 20m N-S; c. 5m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.5-1m) and an outer fosse (Wth of base 4m; D 0.5m) SW-NW. It was in a similar condition in 1972 (Gannon 1972). Moated site (RO016-091----) is c. 110m to the SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 18 June 2015

• RO016-091 Moated site
  Description

  Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m) on the 1837 and 1914 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a S-facing slope. It was described in 1956 as a rectangular area (dims c. 30m N-S; c. 30m E-W) defined by slight earthen banks (Wth c. 1-5-2m; int. H c. 0.4-0.6m; ext. c. H 0.5-0.9m) and outer fosses or moats (Wth c. 5.5m) with external banks (Wth c. 3m) on every side except the N where there was an E-W field bank (SMR file). No trace survived in 1972 (Gannon), but it is traceable as a circular grass-covered area defined by a band of rushes (Wth 3-4m). Rath (RO016-090----) is c. 110m to the NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 2 January 2013

• RO016-159 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  At the crest of a S-facing slope. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 30m ENE-WSW; 26m NNW-SSE) defined by an earthen bank (at WSW: Wth 6.6m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.7m) WSW-NNW, and a fosse visible as a band of lush vegetation (Wth 3.5-3.7m) WSW-NNE. There is an entrance (Wth 3.2m), probably modern, at W. The site is truncated by an ENE-WSW field bank at S and a pond at E. 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 Lismacool.

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 Lismacool, 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 low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Lismacool

Area

1,531,531 m² (153.15 ha, 378.45 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacumsy, and its townlands

Barony

Frenchpark

Electoral division

Lisgarve, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyroddy, Caran, Caranlea, Gortnacloy, Kilnamryall, Lisgarve

Placenames

Lismacool 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.