Lissergool
Lissergool is a townland in the civil parish of Tibohine, barony of Frenchpark, Co. Roscommon.
- Area
- 275.1 ha
- 680 acres
- Land parcels
- 109
- registered freehold, median 15,113 m² (1.51 ha, 3.73 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
109 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lissergool, from 69 m² to 125,373 m² (12.54 ha, 30.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 43 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Lissergool 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
27 Oct 2022Conditional
Permission to construct: 1. New rear extension, new front porch and alterations to existing dwelling house; 2. New domestic garage; 3. Upgrade of existing treatment system and percolation area; 4. Extension to front boundary wall; 5. Revised site boundaries and all ancillary site development works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22578
21 Oct 2022N/a
1. New rear extension, new front porch and alterations to existing dwelling house. 2. New domestic garage. 3. Upgrade of existing treatment system and percolation area. 4. Extension to front boundary wall. 5. Revised site boundaries and all ancillary site development works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 22570
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 Lissergool.
Recorded monuments
- RO014-026 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a level landscape. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims. 38m E-W; 28m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (at W: Wth 4.8m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.8m) with a slight outer fosse (at W: Wth of base 1.3m; D 0.3m) SSE-W, and a scarp (H 0.9m) E-S. The site is truncated at N by an E-W road and overlain by a N-S field bank and drain towards the perimeter at E. There is a modern entrance (Wth 3m) at SSW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO014-027 Ringfort - rath
Description
At the E end of a short E-W spur. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 34m E-W; 33.1m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 2.1-2.6m; int. H 0.1-0.3m; ext. H 0.6m) NE-S and SW-NW, which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.5m) elsewhere, and circumvented by a road wall NNW-NNE. There is an outer fosse (Wth of base 2- 2.7m; D 0.1-0.2m) E-S but no visible entrance, and the site is bisected by a NNE-SSW field wall. Archaeological testing c. 30m to the E uncovered part of a ditch (Wth 0.6-0.7m; D 0.4m) (Henry 2009c), but testing c. 10m to the N produced no archaeological material (Henry 2009d). Rath (RO014-028----) is c. 90m to the ESE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO014-028 Ringfort - rath
Description
At the crest of an E-W spur. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 42.5m N-S; 39.8m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 3.4-4.5m; int. H 0.4-0.6m; ext. H 0.9-1.7m) SE-W-NNE, with a fosse (Wth of top 5.2-6.4m; Wth of base 2.5-2.7m; D 0.1-0.4m) SW-NNE, and by the fosse alone (Wth of top 8m; int. D 0.4m; ext. D 0.2m) NNE-SE. There is a modern entrance (Wth 2m) at NW, and a NNE-SSW field wall bisects the interior just E of the centre. Rath (RO014-027----) is c. 90m to the WNW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO014-029001 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a gentle N-facing slope of an E-W spur. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 38.9m N-S; 36m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.3m; int. H 0.1-0,3m; ext. H 1.1-1.3m) which has been reduced to a scarp (H 0.3m) ENE-ESE and which has been quarried (D 1.3m) SW-NW. It is surrounded by a fosse (Wth of base 2.2m at S to 4-5.2m generally; D 0.5m-1.1m), with an overgrown outer bank (Wth 1.4m at N to 3.5m at W; ext. H 0.6-0.8m) SSW-W-NNE which is incorporated into a road bank SE-SSW. There is a rectangular grass-covered house platform (RO014-029002-) (dims 10m E-W; 8m N-S; H 0.2-0.6m) at the centre, and the site is overlain by an overgrown NNE-SSW field bank W of the house platform. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO014-029002 House - indeterminate date
Description
There is a rectangular grass-covered house platform (dims 10m E-W; 8m N-S; H 0.2-0.6m) at the centre of rath (RO014-029001-). 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 Lissergool.
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 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 moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lissergool.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Lissergool with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Lissergool
- Area
- 2,750,733 m² (275.07 ha, 679.72 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tibohine, and its townlands
- Barony
- Frenchpark
- Electoral division
- Loughglinn, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 780 people lived in 328 households in the Loughglinn electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghalustia, Buckill, Cappagh, Carrowgarve, Cartron More, Cloonfad, Lissian
- Placenames
- Lissergool 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.