Lisduff

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisduff, from 344 m² to 104,650 m² (10.47 ha, 25.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Lisduff 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.

• 15 Jan 2026Conditional

  works to a Protected Structure No CDP 278 the thatch cottage consisting of replacement of rear slate roof with new slate roof, and the removal of one chimney. Repairs to concrete barges and rethatch the ridge of the roof and repair the timber sash windows on the roadside elevation. Provide new window in east gable and new glazed doors in west gable. Replace existing septic tank with sewage treatment plant and all necessary tertiary treatment and all necessary site works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 261

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: Ballysadare Bay SAC 000622
• Special Protection Area: Ballysadare Bay SPA 004129
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballysadare Bay 000622

Recorded monuments

• SL020-136 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a gentle N-facing slope. Indicated only on the 1913 OS 6-inch map as a hachured arc (C c. 30m) indicating a scarp NNW-E. This possible rath is not visible at ground level. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL020-137 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a S-facing slope. A circular area (int. diam. 21m) divided by a N-S stone field boundary just off-centre to W. The interior is defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1m) to E and by a scarp to W of the field boundary. The E half of the interior is planted with trees. A quarry pit (L 30m; Wth 10m) immediately to S has encroached on a small boulder-faced annexe noted during a previous inspection in 1986 (SMR (1989) file). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL020-139 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a slight rise. Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as an embanked circular area (diam. c. 35m). This possible rath has been levelled and is not visible at ground level. The surrounding field boundaries have also been removed. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL020-140 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a gentle S-facing slope on the S side of Ballysadare Bay. Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as an embanked circular area (diam. c. 25m). This possible rath is not visible at ground level. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL020-144 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In pasture, on a SSE-facing slope. Indicated by a broken line on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular area truncated at E by a lane and abutting a field boundary at S. On the 1913 OS 6-inch map it is indicated by an arc of hachures NW-NNE in the NE corner of field. The S two-thirds of this cashel have been quarried away. Extant remains comprise of a raised D-shaped area (dims. c. 18m WNW-ESE), the straight S side (L c. 11.8m) of which is defined by a steep quarry face. From WSW-ESE the defining element is a low drystone wall which is greatly disturbed by deposits from the quarry. From ESE-SE there is a break in the wall. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Architectural heritage

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1820. Gable-fronted projecting entrance porch to centre of south (front) elevation, lean-to extension to north (rear). Pitched straw-thatched roof, diamond-pattern scalloping to ridges, painted smooth-rendered corbelled chimneystacks, painted concrete skews. Painted roughcast walling to south, smooth-rendered to east gable. Square-headed window openings, flat smooth-rendered surrounds, painted stone sills, painted two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening to porch, flat smooth-rendered surround, painted vertically-sheeted timber door. Set back slightly from, and below level of, busy main road, painted roughcast boundary wall to roadside, wrought-iron gate.

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 10 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 Lisduff.

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 Lisduff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Lisduff · An Lios Dubh

Area

643,560 m² (64.36 ha, 159.03 acres)

Civil parish

Ballysadare, and its townlands

Barony

Leyny

Electoral division

Ballysadare West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballysadare West electoral division: 361 people in 131 households; 87% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Lugawarry, Lugnadeffa, Stonehall or Carrownageeragh, Streamstown

Placenames

Lisduff 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.