Lismore
Lismore is a townland in the civil parish of Ballymackey, barony of Ormond Upper, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is An Lios Mór.
- Area
- 84.6 ha
- 209 acres
- Land parcels
- 24
- registered freehold, median 5,901 m² (0.59 ha, 1.46 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lismore, from 103 m² to 225,013 m² (22.5 ha, 55.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Lismore 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
14 Dec 2023Conditional
the construction of a dwelling house, garage and carport, waste water treatment system, entrance, driveway along with all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2360989
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 Lismore.
Recorded monuments
- TN021-095 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a very gentle E-facing slope in pasture. A circular area (diam. 35m N-S; 41m E-W) enclosed by very steep-sided bank (Wth 1.9m; int. H 1.17; ext. H 2.05) with no external fosse with an entrance gap (Wth 3.3m) at E. A folly or gazebo, consisting of a ruinous small two-storey stone tower (possibly three originally) is located c. 8m NE of the entrance to the enclosure. The interior is occupied by elderberry trees, with large trees around the bank. Possible tree-ring. 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 Lismore.
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 Lismore, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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 Lismore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Lismore · An Lios Mór
- Area
- 845,618 m² (84.56 ha, 208.96 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballymackey, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ormond Upper
- Electoral division
- Ballymackey, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 582 people lived in 207 households in the Ballymackey electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clonalea, Clonteige, Coolderry, Garrynafana, Lissanisky, Shanbally
- Placenames
- Lismore 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.