Lisserlough

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisserlough, from 4 m² to 210,734 m² (21.07 ha, 52.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Lisserlough 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 Lisserlough 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

• Special Protection Area: Lough Gara SPA 004048
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Gara 000587

Recorded monuments

• SL047-025 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, near the top of a gently sloping ridge. Low remains of a raised circular area (int. diam. 32.5m; H 0.5m) with a shallow external fosse (Wth c. 2.5m) along its W arc. A slight depression was noted in the centre of the interior. An aerial photograph (ACAP, V227/35-6) shows the S edge of this rath truncated by an E-W field boundary. Another rath (SL047-026----) lies c. 30m 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: 18 January 2008

• SL047-026 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on an E-facing slope. This rath is levelled and is not visible at ground level. Indicated on the 1914 OS 6-inch map as an embanked circular area (diam. c. 40m) with a field boundary curving around the perimeter NNW-E. Visible in an aerial photograph (ACAP, V227/35-6) which shows a bank covered with overgrowth and a clear interior. Another rath (SL047-025----) lies c. 30m 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

• SL047-027 Field system
  Description

  Listed in both the SMR (1989) and RMP (1995) and classified 'Earthwork(s)' and 'Earthwork(s) Site' respectively. In pasture, on the gentle W-facing slope of a ridge. A series of small fields is visible in an aerial photograph (ACAP, V227/35-6), some of which are also indicated on the 1914 OS 6-inch map. These fields are levelled and are not visible at ground level. They are likely to be post-1700 AD in date. Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC Date of upload: 10 January 2012

• SL047-093001 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In rough pasture. A low oval mound of heat-shattered stones and dark soil (c. 15m NW-SE; c. 10m NE-SW) with a central rise (c. 6m NW-SE; 4-5m NE-SW; H c. 0.4m). In contrast to the surrounding field, the mound is covered with lush grass and devoid of rushes. A levelled fulacht fia (SL047-093----) lies c. 40m to NW. 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 Lisserlough.

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 20 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1186 (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 Lisserlough with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Lisserlough · Liosar Locha

Area

738,141 m² (73.81 ha, 182.4 acres)

Civil parish

Killaraght, and its townlands

Barony

Coolavin

Electoral division

Killaraght, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killaraght electoral division: 456 people in 175 households; 91% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardgallin, Ardmoyle, Derrymaquirk (Co. Roscommon), Emlagh, Knocknacloy (Co. Roscommon), Lecarrow (Co. Roscommon)

Placenames

Lisserlough 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.