Lisdachon

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisdachon, from 82 m² to 240,377 m² (24.04 ha, 59.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Lisdachon 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.

• 25 Jun 2021Conditional

  Retention permission of an existing telecommunications support structure (previously granted under Plan Ref No. 10/4069) together with associated ground equipment cabinets within a fenced compound

  Retention · Westmeath County Council, 21352

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Lisdachon.

Recorded monuments

• WM023-010 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on top of a prominent rise, in gently undulating pasture, with good views in all directions. Monument described in 1971 and 1976 as a subrectangular-shaped area (dims. 41.4m WSW-ENE; 34.3m SSE-NNW) enclosed by a bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank with causewayed entrance at ENE. The low inner bank is reduced to a scarp at NW. The intervening fosse is visible from SW-WNW, NE and E-ESE. The outer bank is visible from SW-WNW and at NE. The entrance is represented on the ENE by a gap (Wth at top 4m; basal Wth 2.1m) in the inner bank and a causeway (overall Wth 5.1m; Wth at top 3.1m; H 0.3m) across the fosse. Part of the exterior of the monument has been quarried away at WNW. The interior has an ENE-facing slope with traces of cultivation ridges running ENE-WSW. There is also a slight trace of an earth and stone bank running NNW-SSE across the interior and a rise where an OS trig. station marking OD 318 ft. once stood. The monument is truncated across the NW quadrant by a field boundary running NE-SW. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 23 July 2019

• WM023-011 Standing stone
  Description

  Situated on a W-facing slope, in gently undulating pasture. Annotated 'Stone' on 1837 ed. OS Fair Plan map. Levelled monument described in 1983 as no surface remains visible. No surface remains visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs of any standing stone in area marked on 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 23 July 2019

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lisdachon.

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).

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

Name

Lisdachon

Area

1,147,702 m² (114.77 ha, 283.6 acres)

Civil parish

Kilkenny West, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkenny West

Electoral division

Auburn, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ardnagragh (digby), Kilkenny Abbey, Kilkenny West, Streamstown, Streamstown, Tobernagauhoge

Placenames

Lisdachon on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.