Liswilliam
Townland in the civil parish of Taghboy, barony of Athlone North, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 104.8 ha
- 259 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 38,344 m² (3.83 ha, 9.47 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Liswilliam, from 978 m² to 204,350 m² (20.44 ha, 50.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Liswilliam 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
10 Mar 2022Conditional
Permission for the construction of a dwelling house, a domestic garage / store together with the installation of a waste water treatment system / percolation area and all necessary site services / ancillary siteworks at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22139
15 Oct 2021Refused
Permission for the construction of a dwelling house, a domestic garage/store together with the installation of a waste water treatment system / percolation area and all necessary site services / ancillary siteworks at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21582
28 Jul 2021Refused
Permission for the construction of a dwelling house, a domestic garage/store together with the installation of a waste water treatment system/percolation area and all necessary site services/ancillary siteworks at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21428
20 Jul 2017Conditional
For demolition of existing derelict dwelling & boundary walls, construction of a replacement dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, proprietary treatment system, percolation area, relocation of existing vehicular entrance and associated works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 17321
7 Mar 2017N/a
for demolition of existing derelict dwelling & boundary walls, proposed relocation of vehicular entrance, construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, proprietary treatment system, percolation area and associated works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 1792
28 Feb 2017N/a
For demolition of existing derelict dwelling and boundary walls, proposed relocation of vehicular entrance, construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, proprietary treatment system, percolation area and associated works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 1784
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 Liswilliam.
Recorded monuments
- RO044-065001 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a gentle SW-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 52.4m NW-SE; 49.5m NE-SW) defined by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth of base 6-8.5m; Wth of top 1.2-1.6m; int. H 1-1.8m; ext. H 2-3.2m) and an overgrown rounded fosse (Wth of top 4m at NE to 8m at NW; Wth of base 1.3-2.5m; D 0.6-1.2m). The entrance (Wth 4m) and causeway are at SW and the outer edge of the fosse is truncated by a field wall at W (max. ext. diam. 59m NW-SE). Souterrain (RO044-065003-) is SW of the centre. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO044-065003 Souterrain
Description
Just SW of the centre of rath (RO044-065001-). This is a rectangular scrub-covered depression (dims 6.5m E-W; 3.7m N-S; max. D 0.9m), which was once visibly lined with stones (Gannon (1972) but stones are no longer visible. 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 Liswilliam.
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 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 Liswilliam.
- 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 Liswilliam with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Liswilliam
- Area
- 1,048,304 m² (104.83 ha, 259.04 acres)
- Civil parish
- Taghboy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Athlone North
- Electoral division
- Taghboy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Taghboy electoral division: 535 people in 177 households; 74% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrowntlieve, Carrownurlar, Jamestown, Mullaghardagh, Turrock
- Placenames
- Liswilliam 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.