Lissawaddy
Townland in the civil parish of Baslick, barony of Castlereagh, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 87 ha
- 215 acres
- Land parcels
- 14
- registered freehold, median 79,971 m² (8 ha, 19.76 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lissawaddy, from 302 m² to 135,511 m² (13.55 ha, 33.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Lissawaddy 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
No planning application touches the townland of Lissawaddy in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 Lissawaddy.
Recorded monuments
- RO028-002 Ringfort - rath
Description
Towards the bottom of a SE-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 32.2m NW-SE; 29.6m NE-SW) sloping down to the SE (H 2m) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 6-6.4m; int. H 0.7-0.8m; ext. H 2.2-2.3m). The bank is separated by a fosse (Wth of top 9.6-12.3m; Wth of base 2.5m; D 1.3-1.6m) from an overgrown outer bank (Wth 4.4-5m; H 0.2-0.9m), but the inner bank is reduced to a scarp (H 0.9m) SE-S, and the fosse and outer bank are removed ESE-S (max. ext. diam. 52.4m NE-SW). There are modern entrances at NE and NW, but the original entrance cannot be identified. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO028-003 Quarry
Description
Marked only on the 1930 ed. of the OS 6-inch map with a solid line as a D-shaped feature (dims c. 20m E-W; c. 15m N-S) with the straight side an E-W field bank at S. Situated on the NE-facing slope of a NW-SE spur. This is a triangular grass-covered quarry (dims c. 20m N-S; c. 20m E-W; D c. 1.5m) with the apex at N. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO028-004 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a gentle N-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 43.8m E-W; 40.5m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.7m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1m) SW-W, which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.2m at S to 1.3m at N) elsewhere, and a fosse (Wth of top 6.5-7m; Wth of base 2.5-2.8m; D 0.1-0.4m) NW-SW. There is no identifiable original entrance. The monument is overlain by a N-S field bank and drains W of the centre. 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 Lissawaddy.
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 moderately high, moderately low, 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 Lissawaddy.
- 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 Lissawaddy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Lissawaddy
- Area
- 870,353 m² (87.04 ha, 215.07 acres)
- Civil parish
- Baslick, and its townlands
- Barony
- Castlereagh
- 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
- Carrownaskeagh, Castleruby, Farranawillin, Rathkeva, Tonroe, Toomona
- Placenames
- Lissawaddy 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.