Lisclogher Great
Townland in the civil parish of Castletowndelvin, barony of Delvin, Co. Westmeath; in Irish Lios Clochair
- Area
- 637.6 ha
- 1,576 acres
- Land parcels
- 132
- registered freehold, median 16,881 m² (1.69 ha, 4.17 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
132 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisclogher Great, from 167 m² to 1,193,575 m² (119.36 ha, 294.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 63 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
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 42 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
11 Mar 2026Refused
to construct a single storey extension consisting of a Granny flat to side of existing Dwelling and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2660103
7 Sept 2025Conditional
Retention Permission for the change of use of existing domestic garage granted under planning ref number 86211 to a home office and home gym including bathroom, window and door configuration and all associated site works and landscaping
Retention, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2560446
18 Dec 2024Conditional
RETENTION permission for continued use of an existing guyed wind monitoring mast, with instruments , 100m in height on its lands for a further period of three years. The purpose of the mast is to assess the suitability of the company's adjacent lands for wind farm development. Previous planning application reference numbers: 16/6259 & 21/620
Retention · Westmeath County Council, 2479
23 Dec 2023Refused
construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage and treatment system with percolation area and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2460001
1 Feb 2023Conditional
construction of a two storey dwelling, detached domestic garage & store, install a proprietary wastewater treatment system and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2360020
18 Nov 2021Conditional
Retention permission for continued use of an existing Guyed Wind Monitoring Mast with instruments, 100m in height on its lands at Lisclogher Bog, Lisclogher Great, Co. Westmeath for a further period of three years. The purpose of the mast is to assess the suitability of the company's adjacent lands for wind farm development. Previous planning application reference number 16/6259 refers.
Retention · Westmeath County Council, 21620
5 Apr 2018Refused
revisions to planning ref no. 17/6251. Revisions include change of house type from one and a half storey house to part 2 storey and part single storey house and new garage and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 186113
6 Sept 2017Conditional
construction of a storey and half dwelling, O'Reilly Oakstown BAF waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 176251
26 Apr 2017Conditional
to demolish existing habitable dwelling and construct a new single storey replacement dwelling with detached domestic garage and store, install a proprietary wastewater treatment system and all ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 176129
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
- Special Area of Conservation: River Boyne and River Blackwater SAC 002299
- Special Protection Area: River Boyne and River Blackwater SPA 004232
Recorded monuments
- WM014-016 Earthwork
Description
No trace of an antiquity at this location. There is no enclosure on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch maps. The 1914 OS 6-inch map shows an arc in the corner of the field which is the enclosing element of the farmyard/haggard belonging to the building depicted on this map. Enclosing element of building depicted as a semi-circular shaped field boundary and not as an antiquity. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 27 August 2018
Architectural heritage
- Lisclogher Bridge, bridge, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
Description
A single-arch road bridge over the Lisclogher River, built c.1855. Constructed of snecked/random coursed cut limestone with rusticated limestone voussoirs to arch and rusticated limestone coping over parapet walls. Located to the east of Delvin on small country road.
- Lisclogher House, house, 1910–1920 · Regional interest
Description
Detached triple gable-fronted four-bay two-storey (with attic storey) country house on complex asymmetrical plan, built c.1914, with an open glazed veranda supported on timber posts to the west side of the entrance façade (south) and a modern conservatory to the east side. Second floor partially jettied and overhanging ground floor to west and south sides. Pitched natural slate roofs with tall rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with half-timbered Tudor Revival-style detailing to gables. Square-headed window openings with variety of single, paired and triple-arranged one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor openings, canted bay windows to west and south side of ground floor and diminutive circular openings to gable-fronted attic sections. Square-headed door opening to west side of south façade with a timber panelled door with hoodmoulding over. Set back from road in own grounds to the southeast of Delvin.
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 Lisclogher Great.
- 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 Lisclogher Great with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- Name
- Lisclogher Great · Lios Clochair
- Area
- 6,375,995 m² (637.6 ha, 1,575.54 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castletowndelvin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Delvin
- Electoral division
- Copperalley, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Copperalley electoral division: 266 people in 112 households; 92% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Addinstown, Ballinn, Ballynadrimna (Co. Meath), Bracklin, Clonmorrill, Cockstown, Coolronan (Co. Meath), Lisclogher Little or Earlsmeadow, Woodtown West (Co. Meath)
- Placenames
- Lisclogher Great 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.