Lisgarriff West
Townland in the civil parish of Dolla, barony of Ormond Upper, Co. Tipperary; in Irish An Lios Garbh Thiar
- Area
- 148.5 ha
- 367 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 25,422 m² (2.54 ha, 6.28 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisgarriff West, from 621 m² to 586,698 m² (58.67 ha, 144.98 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Lisgarriff West 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
8 Feb 2024Conditional
extensions to the side and to the rear of existing dwelling along with refurbishment works inclusive of roof windows to the rear and all ancillary site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460084
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
- Special Protection Area: Slievefelim to Silvermines Mountains SPA 004165
Recorded monuments
- TN027-122 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on the NE-facing slope of a hill in pasture. A roughly circular area (diam. 28m N-S; 30.5m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank which has been mainly reduced to a scarp (H 1.7m). A road running NW-SE clips the SW portion of the site and a stone wall at the edge of the road has been built on top of the bank. No outer fosse or entrance feature visible. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
- TN027-123 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on the NE-facing slope of a hill in pastureland. A circular area (diam. 24m N-S; 23.5m E-W) defined by a bank (Wth 2.9m; int. H 1.25m; ext. H 1.25m) and an external wide, flat-bottomed, deep fosse (Wth 4.2m; D 1.5m). The interior slopes to the NE and there is an entrance in the NE quadrant (Wth 6m). The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
- TN027-126 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on the NE-facing slope of a hill in pasture. A roughly circular area (diam. 40.7m N-S; 37m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2.3m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 2.4m) with no evidence of an outer fosse. Possible entrance feature at E (Wth 3m). The ringfort is surrounded by a stone field wall - the gap between the base of the ringfort and the wall creating a fosse-like effect. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
- TN027-127 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on the E-facing slope of a hill in undulating terrain. A roughly circular area (diam. 23.4m N-S; 21.7m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.7m), a narrow, U-shaped fosse (Wth 3.3m; D 0.8m) and an outer bank (Wth 2m; ext. H 0.6m). No entrance feature visible. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
- TN033-002 Cairn - unclassified
Description
Situated on the summit of Cooneen Hill with panoramic views in all directions. A circular cairn (base diam. 8.7m N-S x 10.3m E-W; top diam. 5.1m) sitting on a natural knoll which continues to descend to S. The cairn (H 0.8-1.6m) is covered in moss and heather with small stones protruding. Kerbstones define the cairn material at N, with a curving line of kerbstones defining the top of the cairn at S. The interior is flat, with a slight drop below the encircling kerb. Large flat boulders in the interior may be lintels although three or four are loose. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lisgarriff West.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, 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 Lisgarriff West.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Lisgarriff West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Lisgarriff West · An Lios Garbh Thiar
- Area
- 1,485,040 m² (148.5 ha, 366.96 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dolla, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ormond Upper
- Electoral division
- Dolla, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dolla electoral division: 212 people in 80 households; 89% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 21% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Boherlody, Cooneen, Foilnamuck, Killeen, Knockmeale, Lisgarriff
- Placenames
- Lisgarriff West 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.