Lisfennel
Townland in the civil parish of Kilrush, barony of Decies Without Drum, Co. Waterford; in Irish Lios na Fionaíle
- Area
- 48.3 ha
- 119 acres
- Land parcels
- 12
- registered freehold, median 3,184 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres)
- Zoning
- C7
- CD
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisfennel, from 1,042 m² to 207,552 m² (20.76 ha, 51.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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
- C7CD (Other commerce/industrial/enterprise uses)
WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028, Waterford · 13 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3HA (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028, Waterford · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R2RS (Existing residential)
WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028, Waterford · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
28 Nov 2025Conditional
the erection of fencing, gates, barriers and ancillary works at the existing facilities
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 25168
11 Sept 2024Conditional
a field entrance
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 24195
3 May 2024Conditional
for an extension to existing warehouse unit and all other associated site works
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2460236
1 May 2024Refused
for (1) the change of use of the existing stables and its immediate surroundings to boarding kennels (2) a feed store and (3) a dog run area. Planning Permission is sought for formalized customer car parking
Retention · Waterford City and County Council, 2460227
10 Aug 2023N/a
retention planning permission for (1) the change of use of the existing stables and its immediate surroundings to boarding kennels (2) a feed store and (3) a dog run area. Planning Permission is sought for (1) a new entrance to the boarding kennels from the public road and (2) formalized customer car parking
Retention · Waterford City and County Council, 2360357
16 Jun 2017Conditional
to construct two-storey dwelling, wastewater treatment system, entrance and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 17435
9 Jun 2017Conditional
the construction of a new bungalow, garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area and a new entrance along with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 17412
2 Jun 2017Conditional
the construction of an extension to the existing manufacturing building and ancillary works at existing facilities
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 17394
28 Mar 2017Conditional
(1) extension to existing warehouse unit; (2) erection of a 2m high boundary security fencing to site perimeter and (3) construction of a new vehicular entrance to site
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 17200
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 Lisfennel.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lisfennel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lisfennel.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1860 (ZIP).
- 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 Lisfennel with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.
The townland
- Name
- Lisfennel · Lios na Fionaíle
- Area
- 482,769 m² (48.28 ha, 119.29 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilrush, and its townlands
- Barony
- Decies Without Drum
- Electoral division
- Dungarvan Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dungarvan Rural electoral division: 2,096 people in 699 households; 73% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinure, Ballygagin (Garde), Carrowncashlane, Clogherane, Knockbrack, Lackenfune, Ringcrehy
- Placenames
- Lisfennel 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.