Lysterfield

59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lysterfield, from 43 m² to 202,505 m² (20.25 ha, 50.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Lysterfield 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.

• 2 Feb 2024Conditional

  Planning permission for the following renovation works to our existing dwelling; 1. Alterations to existing window and door openings 2. Demolish existing flat roof rear extension and construct new rear and side extensions to our existing dwelling 3. Decommission existing septic tank and install a single dwelling treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2460047

• 17 Oct 2023Conditional

  Planning permission for erection of extension to dwelling house and for installation of septic tank and percolation area at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2360177

• 25 Aug 2023N/a

  Permission for erection of extension to dwelling house, and for installation of septic tank and percolation area at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2360078

• 5 Jul 2017Conditional

  for change of house type which differs to that granted planning permission ref. PD/16/361 at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 17301

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Funshinagh SAC 000611
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Funshinagh 000611

Recorded monuments

• RO045-132001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as a rectangular feature (dims c. 30m E-W; c. 25m N-S) on the 1837 ed. and as a circular feature (diam. c. 30m) on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on a gentle NE-facing slope. An arc (C 24.7m E-W) of a bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.85m) survives WNW-ENE, with slight traces of a fosse at WNW. There is a record from 1982 of a house (RO045-132002-) as a slightly raised rectangular area (dims c. 5m x 5m; H c. 0.25m) at the centre (SMR file), which is no longer visible. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO045-132002 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  There is a record from 1982 of a house visible as a slightly raised rectangular area (dims c. 5m x 5m; H c. 0.25m) at the centre of rath (RO045-132001-) (SMR file), which is no longer visible. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO045-134001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a D-shaped enclosure, and situated on a gentle NE-facing slope overlooking Lough Funshinagh, a large turlough, c. 300m to the N and E. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims. c. 25m N-S; c. 25m E-W) defined by a flat-topped earth and stone bank (Wth 3.2m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 1.25m) W-NW which is reduced to a scarp (H c. 1m) NW-NNE. The site is truncated by a N-S field bank and townland boundary with Kildurney at E and an E-W field bank at S. There is a local tradition of, but no evidence of, its use as a childrens' burial ground (RO045-134002-) (Gannon 1972). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO045-134002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On a gentle NE-facing slope overlooking Lough Funshinagh, a large turlough, c. 300m to N and E. There is a local tradition, but no evidence, of the use of rath (RO045-134001-) as a childrens' burial ground (Gannon 1972). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO045-232 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On a rise in an undulating low-lying landscape. There is local information on the former site of a children's burial ground, of which nothing remains. Archaeological testing (03E1196) in the vicinity failed to produce any related material (Byrne 2006b). 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 Lysterfield.

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

At the centre of the townland of Lysterfield, about 1 in 5 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 low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lysterfield.

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.

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

Name

Lysterfield

Area

1,747,507 m² (174.75 ha, 431.82 acres)

Civil parish

Cam, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone South

Electoral division

Caltragh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

279 people lived in 91 households in the Caltragh electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballagh, Carrick, Coolnageer, Corralea, Gortnasoolboy, Kildurney, Rahara

Placenames

Lysterfield 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.