Lissalough

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lissalough, from 1,620 m² to 92,617 m² (9.26 ha, 22.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Lissalough 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Lissalough in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Lissalough.

Recorded monuments

• SL025-060 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a rise at the W end of a ridge. A circular raised area (30.5m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 4.1m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 1.7m) with an internal stone revetment. Gaps occur in the bank at SE (Wth c. 1.5m) and N (Wth 1m). The interior slopes slightly down to E and there is a small heap of sod-covered stones (diam. c. 3m) off-centre to E. Some hawthorn bushes grow on the perimeter, otherwise the rath is grass-covered. 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

• SL025-061 Barrow - mound barrow
  Description

  In pasture, on the summit of a ridge with excellent views of the surrounding countryside, the Ox Mountains to NE and Knocknashee Hill to SW. Indicated on the 1914 OS 6-inch map as a small circular mound. It is now evident as a roughly D-shaped mound (diam. c. 9m) of uneven height with a straight E side (H 1.4m). The S edge of the mound is almost vertical (H 0.7m) while on the W and N edges the slope is broader (max. H 1.8m). The top of the mound slopes down to E though there is a level area (Wth 2m) towards the S and SW. The mound is covered in long grass. A small heap of stones was noted c. 4.6m to E. A gently curving scarp (H 1.1m), c. 3m to S, extends W for several metres towards an adjacent field boundary. A rath (SL025-062----) lies c. 80m to NE. 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: 28 October 2011

• SL025-062 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a gentle NE-facing slope with excellent views of the surrounding countryside. A raised circular area (24m NW-SE) defined by two earthen banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is substantial (Wth 6.4m; int. H 1.6m; ext. H 3.4m), best preserved S-N and low internally N-S. Remains of a possible internal stone revetment were noted. The entrance (Wth 2m) is at SE, the S side of which is stone-faced. A deep fosse (Wth 5m) is evident SSE-NW. Remnants of an outer bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 1.8m; ext. H 0.85m) are evident SSE-SSW and NNW-NE. The interior slopes gently down towards SE. In the W half, against the internal face of the bank, is a low terrace (c. 5m E-W; c. 10m N-S; H 0.35m) with a stone kerb along its outer edge. The N end of this terrace is more well defined than the rest. A field boundary has been built against the external edge of the inner bank, on the line of the fosse N-NE. A mound barrow (SL025-061----) lies c. 80m to SW. 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

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lissalough.

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 low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_965 (ZIP).

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

Name

Lissalough · Lios an Locha

Area

610,093 m² (61.01 ha, 150.76 acres)

Civil parish

Killoran, and its townlands

Barony

Leyny

Electoral division

Cartron, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cartron electoral division: 157 people in 64 households; 89% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrownleam, Creevaun, Killoran North, Knockadoo, Rathmactiernan

Placenames

Lissalough 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.