Lismalin

62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lismalin, from 17 m² to 302,031 m² (30.2 ha, 74.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Lismalin 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.

• 5 Jun 2026N/a

  reinstatement of existing derelict dwelling to residential use, proposed extensions and renovations to this existing dwelling, new entrance at location of existing entrance to the site and new packaged waste water treatment system, tertiary treatment system and infiltration/treatment area. Under planning ref. 14/55 the residential use of this dwelling was extinguished,

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660552

• 2 Jul 2024Conditional

  the change of use of the existing public house to residential use, alterations to exterior of building, construction of boundary fence & entrance splay together with all associated site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2460539

• 27 Jun 2024N/a

  change of use of existing public house to residential use, alterations to exterior of building, construction of boundary fence and entrance splay together with all associated site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2460522

• 17 Jun 2024Conditional

  an as constructed galvanised shelter area and also retention permission for an as constructed extension and reroofing of an existing shed and all associated siteworks

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2460486

• 15 May 2024N/a

  retention permission for an as constructed galvanised shelter area and also retention permission for an as constructed extension and reroofing of an existing shed and all associated siteworks

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2460366

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

• TS055-065 Settlement cluster
  Description

  The Civil Survey (1654-6) describes the settlement assoicated with the tower house (TS055-065001-) at Lismalin as 'Upon the sd lands stands a good castle with a bawne & twelve cabbins' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 123). This settlement is not visible at ground level. The precise location and extent of the settlement associated with Lismalin tower house is unknown. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 15 September 2015

• TS055-065001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  On top of a low rock outcrop on a N-facing slope of rising ground in an upland area with good extensive views from W through N to E, with higher ground to S and a small stream to W. Remains of a bawn (TS055-065003-) are visible to the E and N of the tower house, but elsewhere the bawn wall no longer survives. The manor was held by the Butlers since the early 14th century. Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as a 'good castle with bawne & twelve cabbins' which had been 'lately repaired at the states charge', with Pierce (Butler) Lord Viscount of Ikerryn listed as proprietor in 1640 (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 123). Elsewhere in the survey it is described as 'inhabited with a strong bawne repayred at the states charge' (Simington 1931, vol.1, 101). The OS Letters describe it as a 'square castle measuring twenty eight feet six inches [8.7m] by fifteen feet seven inches [4.85m] on the inside, with walls seven feet two inches [2.2m] thick and about forty feet high [12m]. The doorway was on the north side and constructed, as usual with castles in this district, of cut limestone. It had three floors, all of wood and none supported by a stone arch', (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 152-3). The tower house (ext. dims. 12.85m N-S x 8.65m E-W; wall T 2.1m) which survives to three storeys high, is built of roughly coursed sandstone and limestone rubble, with a base-batter (H 3m) and block and start limestone quoins, which have been robbed out at ground-floor level on the SW angle. 19th-century outhouses are built up against the external N and E faces of the tower house and later farmyard walls run from the centre of the W wall and the SE angle. A later doorway of 18th/19th-century date has been inserted in the centre of the S wall at ground-floor level, while the original doorway in the centre of the N wall is now blocked. It originally led into a destroyed lobby which accessed the spiral stairs in the NE angle and the main ground-floor chamber to S. The chamber was lit by single-light, round-headed windows set in the centre of the W, S and E walls. The S window has been replaced by the later doorway insertion. The W window was constructed with fine punch-dressed stonework, of late 16th/early 17th-century date, and set into a segmental-arched embrasure with evidence of wicker-centring visible on the underside of the embrasure arch. All upper floors were wooden, carried on floor joists set into the thickness of the wall, later replaced by machine cut floor joists of 18th/19th-century date. They are now inaccessible due to the ruined condition of the spiral stairs. A partially destroyed garderobe chute is visible on the internal face of the W wall, near the NW angle of the tower. On the second floor, a chamber in the SW angle of the tower, accessed from the main chamber, has a partially destroyed ventilator visible in the external face. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS055-065003 Bawn
  Description

  Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as a 'good castle with bawne & twelve cabbins' which had been 'lately repaired at the states charge' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 123). Pierce (Butler) Lord Viscount of Ikerryn is listed as proprietor in 1640 (ibid.). According to the survey the castle of Lismalin was 'inhabited with a strong bawne repayred at the states charge' (ibid., 101). Situated atop low rock outcrop on a N-facing slope of rising ground in upland area with good extensive views from W through N to E, higher ground to S, small streame to W. Remains of bawn (approx. ext. dims. 46m N-S; 40m E-W; wall T 0.85m) are visible to the N and E of the tower house (TS055-065001-), elsewhere the bawn wall no longer survives. Two-storey farmhouse (ext. dims. 6.5m N-S; 13m E-W) of 17th/18th-century date built into NE angle of bawn utilising the N wall of the bawn as the wall of the farmhouse, N wall of bawn survives intact for a length of 21.5m where it meets the modern driveway into the interior of the bawn where the original entrance may have been located. 20th-century cottage built inside bawn near NW angle of original bawn wall which no longer survives along this side. The E side of the bawn wall which is well preserved survives approx. 3m high, a portion of the SE angle wall return of the bawn survives, no other remains of bawn visible along S and W sides of tower house. Bawn wall constructed of limestone rubble with no base-batter visible. Wall protruding from SE angle of bawn may be the remains of an earlier bawn wall of a smaller size, while the larger bawn to the N and E of the tower may be a larger bawn constructed in the 17th century as mentioned in the Civil Survey. Original entrance to bawn no longer visible but originally would have been located at centre of N wall where modern driveway into 20th century cottage now located. Modern cottage possible located on N wall and NW wall return of bawn wall, stream immediately to W of cottage and would delimit extent of bawn. Interior of bawn obscured by several farm outhouses and two farm dwellings. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS055-067 Church
  Description

  On a N-facing slope of rising ground in upland area with extensive views to N, and higher ground to S. There is a large deep quarry immediately to N of the graveyard (TS055-067002-) and a moated site (TS055-068----) 100m to the S. In the Civil Survey (1654-6) one of the glebeland acres is described as being situated to the N of the church of Lismalin (Simington 1931, vol.1, 123). Long (1896, 255) mentions that the church of Lismolin was attached to Hore Abbey. According to Butler (2006, 282) the church was in continuous use since the Reformation and was substantially remodelled or rebuilt in 1716. A rectangular church (ext. dims. 17.45m N-S; 7.65m E-W; wall T 0.75m) with a three-storey 19th-century bell-tower (ext. dims. N-S 5.05m; E-W 4.3m; wall T 1m) built onto the W end. It is located in the centre of a large rectangular graveyard which is enclosed by a high limestone wall. The E gable is composed of limestone rubble, roughly coursed with a base-batter at the NW angle. There is a later, broken-out window, in the centre of the gable. Most of the central section of the N wall has been reduced to wall-footing level and the W end appears to be 18th or 19th in date. The S wall is better preserved, though there are no features visible in either wall. A doorway (Wth 1.15m) in the centre of the W wall gives access from the church into the bell-tower. The main pointed, cut limestone doorway of the tower (Wth 1m) is visible in the centre of the S wall of tower. A 19th-century wall memorial is inserted into the external face of the S wall off centre to the W. A large medieval waterspout has been re-erected as a memorial in the SE quadrant of the graveyard. The majority of the headstones are located S of the church, there are none to the N and few to the W. The graveyard appears to have cleaned up by a recent graveyard restoration scheme. In the OS Letters the church is mistakenly described as a 19th-century church with nothing surviving of the original church (O'Flanagan 1930, vol.1, 152). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS055-067001 Graveyard
  Description

  On a N-facing slope of rising ground in upland area with extensive views to N, and higher ground to S. Large deep quarry immediately to N of graveyard, moated site (TS055-068----) 100m to S. Large rectangular graveyard (int. dims. 52m N-S; 62m E-W) enclosed by a high limestone wall with church (TS055-067001-) in the centre. The majority of the headstones are located S of the medieval church with no memorials to the N and few to the W of the church. Large medieval water spout of the church re-erected as a memorial in the SE quadrant of the graveyard. Graveyard appears to have cleaned up by a recent graveyard restoration scheme. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Lismalin Church, church/chapel, 1400–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached Church of Ireland church, built c.1450, renovated 1715-16 and 1796, with three-stage tower to west. Disused since c.1845 and now in a state of ruin, incorporating walls of medieval church. Rubble limestone walls with wall plaque to south elevation of nave and remains of render to tower. Cut limestone string courses, corner pilasters, crenellations and quatrefoils to tower. Pointed arch windows to upper-stage of tower with hood mouldings and circular windows to north and west elevations. Pointed arch window opening to east gable of church. Pointed arch door opening with cut limestone surround to tower. Freestanding wheel guards to north elevation of church. Recumbant and upstanding gravemarkers to graveyard. Rubble limestone gate piers with stile and wrought-iron gates to entrance.

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

At the centre of the townland of Lismalin, about 1 in 5 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 Lismalin.

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.

No address of the register names Lismalin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Lismalin · Lios Moling

Area

2,249,175 m² (224.92 ha, 555.78 acres)

Civil parish

Lismalin, and its townlands

Barony

Slievardagh

Electoral division

Ballingarry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

767 people lived in 273 households in the Ballingarry electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 19% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydonnell, Ballynennan (Lloyd), Gragaugh, Kyle, Shangarry

Placenames

Lismalin 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.