Lisheentyrone
Townland in the civil parish of Castletownarra, barony of Owney and Arra, Co. Tipperary; in Irish An Lisín
- Area
- 20 ha
- 49 acres
- Land parcels
- 0
- registered freehold
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisheentyrone. The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Lisheentyrone 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 Lisheentyrone 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 Lisheentyrone.
Recorded monuments
- TN019-016 Barrow - bowl-barrow
Description
Situated on flat pasture in an upland area with a stone pair (TN019-041----) c. 42m to the SE and rock outcrop decorated with cup-marks (TN019-053----) 20m to the S. A well-preserved steep-sided flat-topped mound (H 3.5-4m; top diam. 11.5m N-S; base diam. 19m N-S) enclosed by wide flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 5m; ext. D 1m) with small orthostats protruding from the base of the fosse at E and S - probably natural rock outcrop. The base of the mound has been scarped and a water pump inserted into the fosse at E. 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: 12 March 2014
- TN019-041 Standing stone - pair
Description
Situated on a low platform in an upland area with a bowl-barrow (TN019-016----) c. 42m to NW and rock outcrop decorated with cup-marks (TN019-053----) 20m to to the W. Two limestone orthostats, aligned E-W, and 9.5m apart. Both stones are triangular in shape with the tops of the stones sloping from N-S. The E stone is erect (H 2.1m; 1.1m x 0.9m) while the W stone (H 1.5m; 0.6m x 1.1m) has fallen and is resting on its packing-stones. The NW face of the upright E stone appears to have cupmarks similar to the carvings on the rock outcrop (TN019-053----) to the W. 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: 12 March 2014
- TN019-053 Rock art
Description
Situated on flat grassland in upland area with a bowl-barrow (TN019-016----) 30m to N and stone pair (TN019-041----) 20m to E. Good views of the Arra Mountains from SE-S-SW with limtied views of higher ground to the N. The uneven upper surface of a rock outcrop or earthfast boulder (dims. 3.4m NW-SE x 2.8m SSW-NNE) which inclines to the SSW protruding above the surface of the grassland is decorated with numerous cup marks which appeared to have been carved into the surface of the stone. The NW face of the upright E stone of the nearby stone pair (TN019-041----) appears to have cupmarks similar to the carvings on the rock outcrop. 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. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 12 March 2014
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lisheentyrone.
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 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 Lisheentyrone.
- 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 Lisheentyrone with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Lisheentyrone · An Lisín
- Area
- 199,508 m² (19.95 ha, 49.3 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castletownarra, and its townlands
- Barony
- Owney and Arra
- Electoral division
- Castletown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Castletown electoral division: 1,497 people in 560 households; 79% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Curragh, Faha, Garrykennedy, Lisheenbrien
- Placenames
- Lisheentyrone 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.