Lisnabin
Townland in the civil parish of Killucan, barony of Farbill, Co. Westmeath; in Irish Lios na Binne
Parcel 92833
- Area
- 79,117 m² (7.91 ha, 19.55 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Lisnabin
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 2 recorded monuments.
- WM020-086 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated in woodland immediately N of townland boundary with Lisnabin Castle (WM020-085----) 300m to W. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly oval-shaped earthwork (dims. 31m WSW-ENE; 25m NNW-SSE). Referred to by Adams (1960) as ‘Packenham’s Fort’ and ‘Cup and Saucer’. Monument described in 1970 as a circular-shaped area enclosed by a poorly preserved bank and wide, shallow outer fosse. The bank has been quarried away on the NNE and appears to have been steepened on the interior and exterior in relatively modern times. There is a gap at SW. The original entrance is not recognisable. Monument is visible as a suboval-shaped tree-planted earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 08 July 2019
- WM020-087 Barrow - ring-barrow
Description
Monument surveyed in 2015 and described by McGuinness (2015, 66-7) as following: ‘Rectangular or partly sub-rectangular earthen embanked enclosure with external ditch and raised interior containing what appears to be a denuded ring-barrow at its N end. Dimensions of enclosure are 30.3m N-S x 25.4m E-W from outer edges of ditch; 27.2m NS x 21.7m EW from outer edges of bank; and 17.3m N-S x 16.2m E-W for the interior. There are clear traces of a counterscarp bank just outside ditch at NE and S, and slighter traces of one at NW, which would increase overall dimensions for enclosure. Main enclosure bank rises up to 0.5m above interior at S side, where it rises 1.05m above the ditch and 0.90m above the counterscarp bank. Overall width of flat-topped inner bank is 3.4m at E side, its upper surface 0.80m across. Width of bank at S side is 1.7m, where width of ditch is 1.5m. Part of outer face of inner enclosing bank has been poached, especially on S side. Long axis of enclosure runs roughly N-S (NNW-SSE), with corners being sharpest at NW and SW, and more rounded at NE and especially SE. Interior of enclosure is raised up to 0.50m above external ground level at NE corner but is higher than ground level on all sides. Slippage from the inner bank and raised interior has occurred in various places, most notably midway along W side, although the ASI account of 13/4/70 suggests that this might be the original entrance [SMR file]. At N side of interior of enclosure are remains of what appears to be a greatly damaged ring-barrow (Diam. 10.5m E-W), comprising a ransacked central mound (Diam. 6.5m E-W) surrounded by a roughly circular ditch and an outer bank which is best preserved at E but almost obliterated on S side. Mound rises 0.23m above ditch on E side, where bank rises 0.19m above ditch. It is possible that this is not a ring-barrow, not least in view of its unusual location within a rectangular enclosure; the ASI account of 26/7/72 queried its identification as a ring-barrow, while that of 13/4/70 had described it as ‘two slight banks forming concentric arcs with the open sides on the S.’, suggesting that ‘These could represent a two-period house site. The inner structure [i.e. the hollowed mound of the ‘ring-barrow’] having been built inside the outer’. Given its hilltop location amidst the important Killucan group of barrows, and that some other enclosed ring-barrows are known from Ireland, this writer is much more inclined to opt for identification as a ring-barrow. Monument is located on prominent hilltop close to mobile phone mast; visibility would be excellent all round but for trees. Barrow forms part of a loosely knit cemetery on and around the elevated ground W of Killucan, including two in Rathwire Upper townland (WM020-124----; WM020-123----) within 1.3km to S, and a tight cluster of four or five others in Rathnarrow townland within 1.2km to S’. See attached plan of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by David McGuinness. Date of upload: 10 February 2016
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. 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).
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 123.1 ha
- 304 acres
- Land parcels
- 1
- registered freehold, median 105,071 m² (10.51 ha, 25.96 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Lisnabin, from 105,071 m² (10.51 ha, 25.96 acres) to 105,071 m² (10.51 ha, 25.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Lisnabin 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
3 Jun 2020Conditional
a private dwelling house, proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area, domestic garage, entrance onto public road and all ancillary site services
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 206133
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 Lisnabin.
Recorded monuments
- WM020-085 Castle - unclassified
Description
Situated on grounds of Lisnabin House. A castle is depicted at Lisnabin on the 1655 Down Survey map of Farbill Barony where it is shown standing on lands belonging to 'Thomas Darcy Esqr. of Lisnabin' in 1641 (NLI MS 723-4). The terrier of this map stated that Lisnabin was one of several 'small ones formerly & now quite Demolished' (ibid.). Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a rectangular-shaped building (dims. 17m NE-SW; 14m NW-SE) annotated ‘Lisnabin Castle’. Castle described in 1983 as being on the site of a castellated 19th century house (Lisnabin House) containing battlements and turrets. There is no apparent trace of an earlier structure in the vicinity. Farm buildings and a walled garden in this complex all appear to be of 19th century origin. According to the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH), it is possible that some of the medieval fabric of Lisnabin Castle was incorporated into the present structure. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 05 July 2019
- WM020-086 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated in woodland immediately N of townland boundary with Lisnabin Castle (WM020-085----) 300m to W. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly oval-shaped earthwork (dims. 31m WSW-ENE; 25m NNW-SSE). Referred to by Adams (1960) as ‘Packenham’s Fort’ and ‘Cup and Saucer’. Monument described in 1970 as a circular-shaped area enclosed by a poorly preserved bank and wide, shallow outer fosse. The bank has been quarried away on the NNE and appears to have been steepened on the interior and exterior in relatively modern times. There is a gap at SW. The original entrance is not recognisable. Monument is visible as a suboval-shaped tree-planted earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 08 July 2019
- WM020-108 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a slight rise, in gently undulating pasture, overlooked by higher ground to E and S, with good views in other directions. A pond lies c. 95m to SE. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork and depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a sub-circular-shaped area with an indentation at SSW. Monument described in 1970 as a roughly circular-shaped area (dims. 61 N-S; 54m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank with external fosse. The bank is visible from W-N-E-S, is almost reduced to a scarp from SSW-W and has several modern disturbance gaps. A large quarry hole has been dug into the scarp and extends into the SSW quadrant of the interior. The fosse is wide, steep-sided and flat bottomed from N-E-S-WNW and is filled up from ESE-SE-S and from WNW-NW-N. There is a modern causeway across the fosse at ENE. There are traces of a slight outer bank at E and W; two large stones lie on it at WSW. A gap (Wth at top 3.9m; basal Wth 1.8m) at SSE is the most convincing entrance, yet a gap (Wth at top 5.8m; basal Wth 2.3m) at N could also represent a potential entrance. The interior rises slightly from the perimeter toward the centre and has definite traces of cultivation ridges running WNW-ESE. Monument is visible as a partially tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 08 July 2019
- WM020-109 Barrow - stepped barrow
Description
Situated on a generally level area, in low-lying pasture, which is overlooked by higher, gently undulating pasture to E, S and W where views are restricted. A pond lies c. 45m to N and barrows (WM020-112----/113----/114----) lie c. 240m to SW. Townland boundary with Rathnarrow lies 35m to S. Monument (overall diam. 27m) described in 1970 as a circular-shaped round-topped mound (approx. diam. 8m) defined by a wide berm and a shallow flat-bottomed fosse (Wth at top 3.6m; basal Wth 1.9m; D 0.4m) that is almost filled in at E and from S-W. There is a modern quarry hole on the top of the mound at W. Monument is visible as a roughly circular shaped earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 08 July 2019
- WM020-152 Enclosure - large enclosure
Description
In reclaimed poorly drained grassland. Outline of large circular-shaped area (dims. c. 107m N-S) defined by a fosse visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthophotos Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 29 October 2021
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. 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).
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Lisnabin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- Name
- Lisnabin · Lios na Binne
- Area
- 1,231,467 m² (123.15 ha, 304.3 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killucan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Farbill
- Electoral division
- Huntingdon, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloncullen, Edmondstown, Hodgestown, Huntingdon, Kerinstown And Balrowan (rowley), Rathbrack, Rathnarrow, Rathwire Upper
- Placenames
- Lisnabin 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.