Lismurtagh

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lismurtagh, from 19 m² to 167,991 m² (16.8 ha, 41.51 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Lismurtagh 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.

• 11 Oct 2021N/a

  permission to erect a dwelling house, 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, 21571

• 9 Sept 2021Conditional

  Permission to erect dwelling house, domestic garage, 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, 21510

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Brierfield Turlough 000594

Recorded monuments

• RO028-124 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the NW-facing slope at the N end of a NW-SE ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 37.9m E-W; 34.6m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.4-5m; int. H 0.3-0.4m; ext. H 1.25-1.4m) W-NE which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.9-1.2m) elsewhere, with slight traces of a fosse (Wth of base 4.5m; D 0.2m) NE-ESE. The entrance (Wth 4m) is at NNE. See the attached image taken from the SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO028-125 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Towards the N end of a NW-SE ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 34m N-S; 33.8m E-W) defined by an earthen bank with some bushes (Wth 4.4-5m; int. H 0.5-0.8m; ext. H 1.2-1.5m) and an outer flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 6.2-8.1m; Wth of base 3.2-4.5m generally to 5.7m at E; D 0.2-0.3m). The entrance (Wth 3.8m) and causeway (Wth 3.8m) are at ESE, but a second entrance (Wth 2.1m) at WNW is probably recent (ext. diam. 55.6m E-W; 50.2m N-S). Rath (RO028-126----) is c. 100m to the ESE and enclosure (RO028-236----) is c. 160m to the NE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO028-126 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the crest of a broad NW-SE ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 34.4m N-S; 33.5m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3-3.6m; int. H 0.2-0.4m; ext. H 0.9-1.3m) which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.4m) NNW-E, and a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 6.6-6.8m; Wth of base 3.2-4.6m; D 0.2-0.3m) SE-W-N. There are entrances at SE (Wth 1.8m) and WNW (Wth 3m). Rath (RO028-125----) is c. 100m to the WNW and enclosure (RO028-236----) is c. 200m to the N. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO028-236 Enclosure
  Description

  On a gentle NE-facing slope of a NW-SE ridge. Slightly raised rectangular grass-covered area (dims 39m NW-SE; 37m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank with some scrub (Wth 2.8-3.3m; int. H 0.8-1m; ext. H 1.3-1.6m) and a slight fosse or ditch (Wth of base 1m; D 0.1-0.3m) on the SE and SW sides, and a scarp (H 0.8-1m) on the other sides. Rath (RO028-125----) is c. 160m to the SW and rath (RO028-126----) is c. 200m to the S. 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 Lismurtagh.

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

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 Lismurtagh.

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.

No address of the register names Lismurtagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Lismurtagh

Area

667,355 m² (66.74 ha, 164.91 acres)

Civil parish

Ogulla, and its townlands

Barony

Roscommon

Electoral division

Castleplunket, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castleplunket electoral division: 563 people in 208 households; 85% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballaghabawbeg, Ballaghabawmore, Lismurtagh, Slevin

Placenames

Lismurtagh 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.