# Lismacaffry, Co. Westmeath: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Street, barony of Moygoish, Co. Westmeath; in Irish Lios Mhic Gofraidh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 444,333 m² (44.43 ha, 109.8 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,260 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Street, https://everytownland.com/westmeath/parish/street.md - Barony: Moygoish - Electoral division: Boherquill, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Boherquill electoral division: 183 people in 62 households; 88% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Westmeath, https://everytownland.com/westmeath.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/51150 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 230903 - Centre: latitude 53.715392, longitude -7.45569 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lismacaffry, from 512 m² to 116,869 m² (11.69 ha, 28.88 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 106103: 116,869 m² (11.69 ha, 28.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/106103.md - Parcel 105103: 98,172 m² (9.82 ha, 24.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/105103.md - Parcel 105812: 78,223 m² (7.82 ha, 19.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/105812.md - Parcel 106636: 37,790 m² (3.78 ha, 9.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/106636.md - Parcel 86602: 26,002 m² (2.6 ha, 6.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/86602.md - Parcel 87509: 20,682 m² (2.07 ha, 5.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/87509.md - Parcel 106653: 18,500 m² (1.85 ha, 4.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/106653.md - Parcel 106611: 17,907 m² (1.79 ha, 4.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/106611.md - Parcel 86336: 4,260 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/86336.md - Parcel 4979799: 4,014 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4979799.md - Parcel 2731578: 2,520 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2731578.md - Parcel 3123015: 2,515 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3123015.md - Parcel 105102: 2,198 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/105102.md - Parcel 87537: 2,145 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/87537.md - Parcel 5317282: 1,978 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5317282.md - Parcel 3123019: 754 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3123019.md - Parcel 5317286: 512 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5317286.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Lismacaffry in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 17 Jul 2025, Westmeath County Council 2560360: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a storey & half dwelling (195.6sqm) and a domestic garage (50.7sqm). Permission is also sought to close the existing agricultural entrance to the northeast of the site and to install a new entrance to facilitate a shared agricultural and domestic entrance onto the public roadway. Permission is also sought to install a secondary treatment system and raised bed polishing filter and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560360/0 - 13 Jan 2025, Westmeath County Council 2560007: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Proposed Construction Of A Part Storey And A Half / Part Single Storey Type Dwelling House, Detached Garage, Entrance, Boundary Fence/Wall, Onsite Suitable Treatment System With Polishing Filter And All Ancillary Site Works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560007/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Lismacaffry. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WM002-006: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWM002-006----. Situated on ESE facing slope of low rise of ground with excellent views to N, E & SSE. Circular area (diam. 35m) defined by a low bank of earth and stones which has been steepened from SSE-S-SW where it forms part of a modern field boundary with wide steep flat bottomed fosse. No clear entrance feature visible. Large portions of the enclosing bank has been quarried away at NNW & ENE. The ground outside the bank has been disturbed by quarrying also on the W. Slight traces of old cultivation ridges aligned NNE-SSW running across the interior. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 21 November 2016 - WM002-007: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWM002-007----. Situated on a low rise of reclaimed pasture-land with good views to E & S and moderate views to N & W. Ringfort (WM002-009----) 60m to S. Circular area (diam. 48m) defined by wide low earthen bank (int. H 1m; ext. H 2-2.5m) best preserved at N where if forms part of a modern field boundary and shallow traces of a fosse with external bank visible at NW only. The interior is uneven, rising gently towards the centre from inside the bank. There is a disturbance gap in the bank on the WSW and another on the NW. A gap on the SSE looks as if it is due to disturbance also and there is a modern road leading up to it from the outside. The fosse is almost completely filled up most of the way round. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 21 November 2016 - WM002-008: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWM002-008----. Situated on a low natural rise of ground with good views to the E and more moderate views to the N, W and S. Ringfort (WM002-006----) 300m to NNW, second ringfort (WM002-009---) 240m to NNE. Circular area (diam. 43m N-S; 54m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank with external fosse now mainly filled in, causewayed entrance gap at SSE. Old cultivation ridges aligned WSW-ESE run across the interior of the monument. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 21 November 2016 - WM002-009: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWM002-009----. Situated on the SSE side of a low natural rise of ground on reclaimed pasture-land. Ringfort (WM002-007----) 65m to N, ringfort (WM002-008----) 220m to SSW, ringfort (WM002-006----) 340m to W. Oval-shaped area (diam. 41m NW-SE; 26m NE-SW) defined by a low bank mainly reduced to a scarp and shallow external fosse with no entrance feature visible. Old cultivation ridges run NW-SE across the interior of the monument. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 21 November 2016 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - House, 1850–1870, Regional interest, registry number 15400221, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WM®no=15400221. Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1860, with large two-storey return to the rear (east). Hipped natural slate roof with a pair of rendered chimneystacks to the centre and a projecting eaves course having cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered walls to ground floor, roughcast rendered above to first floor, separated by projecting string course. Square-headed window openings with cut stone sills, rendered reveals and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Central segmental-headed doorcase with rendered surround/aedicule comprising Doric pilasters on square-plan supporting entablature over. Replacement door having replacement sidelights and a replacement fanlight over. Set back from road in own grounds with rendered wall to road frontage (west) having wrought-iron railings over. Gateway to west having rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having wrought-iron gate. Located just to the north of Lismacaffry crossroads, close to the border with Co. Longford. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lismacaffry. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/lismacaffry.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/lismacaffry.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/lismacaffry.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Lismacaffry with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath: https://everytownland.com/westmeath.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Athenboy: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/athenboy.md - Ballew: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/ballew.md - Clonmore: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/clonmore-230415.md - Coolamber: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/coolamber.md - Lisduff: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/lisduff.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/lismacaffry - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/westmeath/lismacaffry