Lismakeeve
Lismakeeve is a townland in the civil parish of Glenkeen, barony of Kilnamanagh Upper, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is Lios Maí Caoimh.
- Area
- 49.4 ha
- 122 acres
- Land parcels
- 13
- registered freehold, median 41,037 m² (4.1 ha, 10.14 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lismakeeve, from 857 m² to 100,841 m² (10.08 ha, 24.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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 Lismakeeve 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
16 Aug 2026N/a
traditional two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment tank, raised bed percolation area and entrance
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2660797
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 Lismakeeve.
Recorded monuments
- TN034-059 Moated site
Description
Situated on a NE-facing slope of rising ground in an upland area with a river ravine immediately to SE and possible ringfort site (TN034-060) also to SE. A square-shaped area (dims. 23m NE-SW; 26m NW-SE) enclosed by two earth and stone banks with intervening, wide flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 5m) and entrance gap (Wth 7m) at ENE. The fosse and outer bank (Wth 3.5m; ext. H 1.5m) are visible from SE through S to SW where the bank survives as a field boundary. The inner bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.65m; ext. H 0.5-1.2m) is destroyed at SW. 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
- TN034-060 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on an E-facing slope of rising ground in a mountainous region with a nearby moated site (TN034-059) to the NW. The barely discernible outline of a circular area (diam. 30m approx.) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 3.5m; ext. H 1.4m) and outer fosse (Wth 2.2m; D 0.5m) both of which survive as a field boundary from S to W only, elsewhere destroyed. 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
- Ileigh Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1825–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding cruciform-plan Catholic church, dated 1826, with four-bay elevations to nave, single-bay chancel, single-bay sacristy and two-bay transepts. Pitched artificial slate roofs, with ashlar limestone belfry with cross finial to the south transept. Rendered walls with render plat-bands and stone date plaques. Pointed-arch openings with limestone sills, having stained-glass windows. Round-arch doorway with chamfered surround and timber panelled double-leaf door with date plaque above. Random rubble boundary walls with ashlar sandstone gate piers having cast-iron gates. Graveyard to site.
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 Lismakeeve, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lismakeeve.
- 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 Lismakeeve with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Lismakeeve · Lios Maí Caoimh
- Area
- 494,295 m² (49.43 ha, 122.14 acres)
- Civil parish
- Glenkeen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilnamanagh Upper
- Electoral division
- Borrisoleigh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,257 people lived in 487 households in the Borrisoleigh electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Curraghcarroll, Drumgill, Gortaniddan, Killamoyne, Knocknaharney, Rosnamulteeny
- Placenames
- Lismakeeve 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.