Lissadill

54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lissadill, from 91 m² to 193,141 m² (19.31 ha, 47.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Lissadill 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.

• 8 Dec 2023Conditional

  The development will consist of the construction of a new single storey extension (43m2) to the side and rear of the existing dwelling, the installation of a replacement wastewater treatment system, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2360343

• 31 Aug 2021Conditional

  Development consisting of the construction of a two storey type domestic dwelling, a new site entrance, a domestic garage, construct a domestic waste water treatment system to EPA code of practice standards together with all associated ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 21342

• 22 Sept 2020Refused

  Development consisting of construction of a two storey type domestic dwelling, a new site entrance, a domestic garage, construction of a domestic waste water treatment system to EPA code of practice standards together with all associated ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 20326

• 10 Apr 2019Conditional

  Development consisting of retention of extension constructed to the side of dwelling house with associated works.

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 19134

• 25 Jul 2018Refused

  for development consisting of construction of a dwelling house with proprietary effluent treatment (p.e.t) system and percolation area including all siteworks required to improve the site entrance

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 18300

• 18 Aug 2017Conditional

  construction of a new forestry road entrance including all associated site works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 17317

• 18 Aug 2017Conditional

  construction of a new forestry road entrance including all associated site works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 17318

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: Cummeen Strand/Drumcliff Bay (Sligo Bay) SAC 000627
• Special Protection Area: Drumcliff Bay SPA 004013
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cummeen Strand/Drumcliff Bay (Sligo Bay) 000627

Recorded monuments

• SL005-098001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on slight rise in gently undulating pasture. A steep natural N-facing slope abuts the edge of the rath NNW-NE. Circular area (diam. 25m) enclosed by a slight bank of earth (Wth 3.2m; int. H 0.3m). No fosse visible. Where the rath abuts the natural slope to the N of the site, there are only trace remains of the bank visible as a band of lighter coloured grass NNW-NE. A break (Wth 1.2m) in the bank at SSE marks the position of the original entrance. The blocked entrance to a souterrain (SL005-098002-) is located on the N side of the interior. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011

• SL005-098002 Souterrain
  Description

  Situated on the N side of the interior of Lissadill rath (SL005-098001-). The entrance to a souterrain, now visible as a circular depression (diam. 1.5m; D 0.4m), is blocked up with rubble rock and the passage is inaccessible. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011

• SL008-003 Barrow - bowl-barrow
  Description

  On flat rough pasture with excellent views. Recorded in 1991 as a large oval earthen mound (dims. 9.7m x 4.2m; H 4m), conical in section, rising in terraces above a platform (SMR file). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 April 2011

• SL008-004001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a low broad rise in mature coniferous forestry within the demesne of Lissadell House. Oval slightly raised area (dims. 25m E-W; 18m N-S) enclosed by an irregular disturbed bank of earth and stone (Wth 2.3m; int. H 1m; ext. H 0.5m). There is no fosse visible at ground level. The original entrance is not recognisable. A large roughly rectangular stone (dims. L 1.2m; Wth 0.8m; T 0.5m) of uncertain significance lies on top of the bank at NNW. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011

• SL008-005 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on a broad rise within a mature coniferous forestry plantation in the demesne of Lissadell House. Depicted as a perfectly circular enclosure on the 1836-7 edition of the OS 6-inch map and as a subcircular enclosure on the 1940-1 edition. This monument has been almost completely levelled and on the basis of the surviving remains it is impossible to determine its original extent and morphology. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011

• SL008-006 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• SL008-007 Church
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• SL008-008 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• SL008-184 Mound
  Description

  In pasture, located on a ridge. A trigonometrical station is shown at this location on the 1836-7 and 1940-1 OS 6-inch maps. Oval-shaped mound (23.6m E−W; 18.9m N−S) rising to 2.1m at its highest point. It has steep sides on N and S and a broader slope down from W to E. There are three large stones in a kerb-like setting on the S side. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 12 December 2016

Architectural heritage

• Lissadell House, water pump, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Stone cistern, built c.1860, no longer in use. Rectangular on plan. Rubble limestone walling with cement internal lining. Located on hill to north of Lissadell House to which it supplied water.

• Lissadell House, forge/smithy, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey stone forge, built c. 1830. Rectangular plan in three sections one for shoeing horses, one for forging, and one for storage. Pitched roof missing entirely, brick chimneystacks with stepped capping. Squared and coursed rubble limestone walling, tooled ashlar quoins. Square-headed window openings, tooled ashlar jambs and voussoirs, remnants of side-hung multi-paned timber casement windows. Square-headed door openings, tooled ashlar jambs and voussoirs, remnants of vertically-sheeted timber doors. Set back from road to north.

• Lissadell House, worker's house, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey with attic limestone former estate house, built c. 1890, now private residence. Gabled porch projecting from centre of south (front) elevation. Pitched slate roof; clay ridge tiles; unpainted smooth-rendered chimneystacks with yellow clay pots; gabled dormer windows; projecting painted timber scalloped-edge bargeboards to gable-ends, porch and dormers; projecting painted timber fascias; uPVC rainwater goods c. 2000. Squared and coursed rubble walling, tooled ashlar quoins. Square-headed window openings; dressed stone sills, jambs and voussoirs; uPVC side-hung casement windows c. 2000. Depressed pointed-arched entrance door opening, painted timber door with three raised-and-fielded panels below two glazed panels, pointed-head overlight. Small garden between house and road, high boundary hedges.

• Lissadell House, workshop, 1870–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached limestone former saw mill, built c. 1890, now ruin. Upper portions missing in entirety. Squared rubble stone walling. Square-headed door and window openings, tooled ashlar jambs and voussoirs to some openings, brick dressings to others, remains of painted timber six-over-six sash windows. On elevated site.

• Lissadell House, workshop, 1830–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay two-storey rendered former gas house with gasometer, built c. 1833, now derelict. Rectangular plan, extensions to rear (east). Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, unpainted roughcast corbelled chimneystacks, dressed ashlar stone verge copings, half-round cast-iron gutters on eaves, cast-iron downpipes. Unpainted roughcast walling. Segmental-headed window openings, stone sills, remnants of painted two-over-two timber sash windows. Segmental-headed door openings, painted vertically-sheeted timber doors. Yard with high rubble stone boundary wall to east, containing a cast iron bolas which ws an integral part to the manufacture of the gas from the coal.

• Lissadell House, worker's house, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay two-storey rendered former gardener's house, built c. 1900, now ruin. Rectangular plan, lean-to porch to west, single-storey lean-to extension to north-east. Hipped slate roof, clay ridge tiles, unpainted smooth-rendered corbelled chimneystack, half-round cast-iron gutters on eaves corbel course. Painted smooth-rendered ruled-and-lined walling, channel-jointed quoins. Square-headed window openings, stone sills, windows missing but some fragments of leaded lights. Square-headed door opening to porch, door missing. Extensively overgrown, walled garden to south, Lissadell House to east.

• Lissadell House, walled garden, 1840–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Brick walled garden, built in the 1840's, now overgrown and neglected. Square plan. High red brick garden boundary walls, ashlar stone copings. Square-headed carriage opening to east, block-and-start tooled ashlar limestone jambs, ashlar voussoirs, temporary metal gates c. 1960. Sunken lane with rubble stone embankments to both sides leads from garden to stables.

• Lissadell House, farmyard complex, 1840–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-storey stone farmyard, built c. 1840's. Square plan with central yard; east, south and west ranges continuous; entrance gateways between north ends of east and west ranges and north range. Hipped slate roofs, corrugated-iron roof to west end of south range, clay roll-top ridge and hip tiles, brick chimneystack with stepped capping to east end of north range, cast-iron skylights to north and west ranges, half-round galvanised metal gutters on drive-in brackets on eaves. Limewashed rubble stone walling, open section to east side of north end of east range with four circular cast-iron columns with corbelled caps carrying roof. Square-headed window openings, timber lintels, painted stone sills, painted four-pane timber Yorkshire sash windows. Square-headed door openings, painted vertically-sheeted timber half doors. Dressed ashlar limestone gate piers with pyramidal caps, wrought-iron flat-bar gates. On shore of Sligo Bay to south-west of Lissadell House.

• Lissadell House, stables, 1840–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached stone stable yard, built in 1840's, now derelict and in an increasingly ruinous state. Two-storey stable buildings, and associated accommodation, in four ranges around central courtyard, lean-to buildings to exterior of north range. Hipped slate roofs, clay ridge and hip tiles, unpainted smooth-rendered chimneystacks with stepped capping to south range, half-round cast-iron gutters at eaves, cast-iron downpipes. Squared-and-coursed rubble limestone walling, tooled ashlar limestone quoins and plinth, external stone staircase with wrought-iron balustrade to lean-to. Square-headed window openings, tooled ashlar jambs and lintels, limestone sills, painted multiple-pane timber sash windows mainly missing or boarded-up. Segmental-headed carriage arches to south and west elevations, tooled ashlar limestone block-and-start jambs, ashlar voussoirs, painted vertically-sheeted timber double doors with wicket gate to south, doors missing to west. Square-headed entrance door opening, painted timber panelled door, three stone steps. Situated on drive leading to Lissadell House, set among trees.

• Lissadell House, tunnel, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached underground coal bunkers, built c. 1840. Long narrow below-ground tunnel extending east-west at roadside, three openings to south side stepping uphill, entrance to east end. Rubble stone segmental vaulted roof. Rubble stone walling. Square-headed openings to road, tooled limestone dressings, rebated jambs. Single segmental-headed opening to east, tooled limestone rebated jambs and voussoirs. Stable yard to east.

• Lissadell House, icehouse, 1770–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-bay stone icehouse, built c.1800. Barrel vaulted roof. Squared rubble limestone walling. Segmental-headed door openings to north elevation. Brick lining to inner chamber. Very overgrown, set back from woodland path to south of Lissadell House.

• Lissadell House, walled garden, 1740–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached walled garden, built c. 1760. Known as the lower walled garden (or Alpine walled garden), it formed part of the original Lissadell House site. Irregular plan, incorporating castle ruins. High rubble stone boundary walls, part roughcast. Segmental-headed door openings to south-east, north and north-west; red brick surrounds. Garden contains wide variety of deciduous trees and wildflowers and was divided into two sections by a long narrow pond. Entrance with cut-limestone gate piers to south-west. Four-bay single-storey house, remodelled c. 1940, attached to west, pitched slate roof. Sited on service laneway to Lissadell estate, overlooking Sligo Bay to south.

• Lissadell House, country house, 1830–1835 · National interest
  Description

  Detached nine-bay two-storey over basement Ballysodare limestone mansion, built between 1830 to 1835, inhabited from 1833. Designed in Greek Revival style by Francis Goodwin for Sir Robert Gore-Booth (1784-1835). Entrance front (north) elevation with three-bay pedimented central projection, lower storey originally open to east and west to form porte-cochere, flanked by three-bay side sections; east elevation with five-bay central section between two-bay projections, three-bay central breakfront; south elevation with three-bay central bow with raised parapet flanked by three-bay sections; west elevation with four-bay central section between four-bay projections each two-bays deep. Pitched and hipped slate roofs set behind parapets, lead ridge and hip cappings, ashlar chimneystacks with stepped capping and yellow clay pots, pyramidal rooflights over west gallery, lead hoppers and downpipes. Tooled and finely jointed ashlar walling, entablature with plain frieze and square unadorned cornice to all four sides, stepped architrave to north, east and west sides, carried on giant order Doric pilasters on projecting basement plinth, first floor platband. Square-headed window openings, painted six-over six timber sash windows to porte-cochere and first floor, nine-over-six to ground floor, six-over-three to basement. Square-headed door openings at porte-cochere, varnished vertically-sheeted timber double doors with wrought-iron strap hinges, flanked by Doric pilasters, projecting flanking walls on line of plinth. Situated on elevated site overlooking Sligo Bay, landscaped grounds, lawns to south terraced with stone steps on axis with bow window, woods beyond. The estate contains a variety of outbuildings which are recorded separately.

• Lissadell House, hunting/fishing lodge, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey former gamekeeper's cottage, built c. 1860, currently not in use. Single-storey lean-to extensions to rear (west). Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, patent roof windows to rear, red and yellow brick banded and flat-capped chimneystacks c. 2000, no rainwater goods. Painted roughcast walling. Square-headed window openings, painted stone sills, painted six-over-six timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening, plain-glazed overlight, painted vertically-sheeted timber door. Various single-storey outbuildings to west in poor state of repair, pitched and hipped slate roofs, rubble stone walling. Set in the grounds of Lissadell Estate, Lissadell House to south-west.

• Lissadell House, water pump, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Underground chamber, built c. 1830, containing cast-iron water handling equipment. Straight-sided approach path with embankments over, segmental-headed door opening, brick jambs and arch, painted vertically-sheeted timber door. Brick barrel-vaulted ceiling. Set in woods to north-east of Lissadell House.

• Lissadell House, water trough, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Concrete-lined water cistern, built c. 1830. Located to north-east of Lissadell House.

• Lissadell House, gate lodge, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-storey with attic rendered gatelodge, built c. 1880. Central gable-fronted projection to east elevation, single-storey lean-to full-width extension to west. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, unpainted grouped smooth-rendered central chimneystack, with stepped capping and yellow clay pots, projecting painted serrated timber fascias and bargeboards, uPVC rainwater goods. Painted smooth-rendered walling, projecting plinth. Square-headed window openings, painted stone sills, hood mouldings, painted splayed surrounds, painted mullions, narrow painted four-over-four timber sash windows. Square-headed entrance door opening, hood moulding, painted splayed surround, painted timber door with four panels, centrally sub-divided plain-glazed overlight. Gravelled forecourt, octagonal stone gate posts with pyramidal caps to entrance, low quadrant boundary hedges, set in woodland to north of Lissadell House.

• The Rectory, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1840–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay two-storey rendered former parsonage, built c. 1865. T-plan, lower two-storey return with gabled dormers and single-storey lean-to to one side. Pitched slate roofs, clay ridge tiles, diagonally set limestone chimney flues with corbelled caps set on oblong bases, ashlar limestone verges on corbelled kneelers with finials at apex. Coursed rubble limestone walling, flush ashlar quoins. Square-headed window openings, chamfered reveals and soffits, hood mouldings to main block, flush stone sills, painted timber four-over-six sash windows with horizontally disposed panes, unusual Egyptian style doorcase. Set in landscaped garden.

• Lissadell National School, school, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-storey limestone former schoolhouse with attic, built c. 1890, now in use as church hall. T-plan, three-bay south wing with gable-fronted porch to west elevation, four-bay north wing with gable-fronted porch to north elevation, five-bay two-storey extension c. 1990 in south-east (rear) corner. Pitched slate roofs, crested clay ridge tiles, ashlar limestone grouped chimneystacks with stepped capping, painted timber overhanging bargeboards with decorative curved motif at base and timber finials, uPVC gutters on overhanging painted timber eaves. Squared-and-snecked rock-faced ashlar walling, chamfered plinth, tooled ashlar quoins. Square-headed window openings, block-and-start tooled ashlar jambs, tooled ashlar voussoirs, segmental relieving arches, stone sills, painted one-over-two timber sash windows to north wing with timber mullions to paired and triple windows, two-over-four paired windows to south wing. Four-centred-arched door openings to entrance porches, tooled ashlar surrounds, chamfered reveals, limestone steps, plain-glazed overlight to north door, painted vertically-sheeted timber doors, single leaf to north porch and double leaf to south porch. Set back from road to west, bitmac carpark, single-storey outbuilding c. 1990 to east, rubble stone boundary wall to west, entrance to north-west with painted smooth-rendered walls, cast-iron gate posts and 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 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 Lissadill.

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

Name

Lissadill · Lios an Daill

Area

2,501,390 m² (250.14 ha, 618.11 acres)

Civil parish

Drumcliff, and its townlands

Barony

Carbury

Electoral division

Lissadill East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Lissadill East electoral division: 862 people in 306 households; 78% of households own their home; 53% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinphull, Ballygilgan, Doonfore, Doonowney, Srarevagh

Placenames

Lissadill 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.