Lismeehy
Townland in the civil parish of Lissonuffy, barony of Roscommon, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 49.8 ha
- 123 acres
- Land parcels
- 34
- registered freehold, median 8,134 m² (0.81 ha, 2.01 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lismeehy, from 303 m² to 70,761 m² (7.08 ha, 17.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Lismeehy 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
14 Apr 2026Refused
Permission to construct domestic dwelling house along with domestic garage, new treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site development works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2660160
21 Feb 2019N/a
to construct dwellinghouse and garage with proprietary treatment system and carry out all associated site development works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 1979
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 Lismeehy.
Recorded monuments
- RO029-102 Ringfort - rath
Description
Marked as a large oval embanked enclosure (ext. dims c. 80m NW-SE; c. 55m NE-SW) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a gentle E-facing slope. Parts of overgrown curving field banks at N and S, the latter being part of the townland boundary with Lissonuffy, may incorporate elements of an enclosure (diam. c. 50m), but no other feature survives. The possible rath (RO029-103----) is c. 190m to the NNE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO029-103 Ringfort - rath
Description
Marked as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on the 1837 ed. and as a curving field boundary on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on a gentle E-facing slope, a curving field wall and hedge survive NW-NE, but no other feature is visible in pasture. It was probably a rath and the possible rath (RO029-102----) is c. 190m to the SSW. 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 Lismeehy.
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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lismeehy.
- 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 Lismeehy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Lismeehy
- Area
- 498,397 m² (49.84 ha, 123.16 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lissonuffy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Roscommon
- Electoral division
- Killavackan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killavackan electoral division: 229 people in 89 households; 91% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghadangan, Carrownaskeagh, Cloonycarran Beg, Cloonycarran More, Lissaphobble, Lissonuffy
- Placenames
- Lismeehy 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.