Lissaneagh
Lissaneagh is a townland in the civil parish of Achonry, barony of Leyny, Co. Sligo. Its name in Irish is Lios an Eich.
- Area
- 57.5 ha
- 142 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 19,139 m² (1.91 ha, 4.73 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lissaneagh, from 1,441 m² to 212,503 m² (21.25 ha, 52.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Lissaneagh 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
No planning application touches the townland of Lissaneagh 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.
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 Lissaneagh.
Recorded monuments
- SL032-067001 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on level ground, on the W-facing slope of a ridge. A roughly circular area (33.2m N-S; 36.5m E-W) raised c. 0.4m to 0.8m above external ground level. The interior is defined by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.6m) along the N and SE arcs, by a scarp along the NE, E and S arcs and by a hedgerow elsewhere. An external dry flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 6m; D 0.4m) is evident N-NE and E-W. There is a possible souterrain (SL032-067002-) in the interior. 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
- SL032-067002 Souterrain
Description
In a rath (SL032-067001-). According to local information, a souterrain within the rath was blocked up c. 1935 and there are now no visible remains of it. 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
- SL032-218 Burnt mound
Description
In flat low-lying boggy ground. According to local information, a spread of dark earth and heat-cracked stones exists underneath the sod. 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 Lissaneagh.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Lissaneagh, about 1 in 10 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lissaneagh.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Lissaneagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Lissaneagh · Lios an Eich
- Area
- 574,706 m² (57.47 ha, 142.01 acres)
- Civil parish
- Achonry, and its townlands
- Barony
- Leyny
- Electoral division
- Streamstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 255 people lived in 99 households in the Streamstown electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carnyara, Cloonarara, Mullaghanarry, Pullagh, Tobertelly
- Placenames
- Lissaneagh 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.