Lisnacask
Townland in the civil parish of Rathconrath, barony of Rathconrath, Co. Westmeath
Parcel 5435538
- Area
- 130,412 m² (13.04 ha, 32.23 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
- Lisnacask
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.
- WM017-014 Earthwork
Description
Situated on a natural rise in grassland. The road which forms the townland boundary with Lisnacask lies 30m to N. Depicted as an earthwork on Larkin’s 1808 Map of Westmeath. No trace of an antiquity visible at this location. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 13 February 2018
- WM017-015 Souterrain
Description
Situated on the N face of a natural hillock. Earthworks (WM017-019----/WM017-020----) 160m and 200m to SSE and SE respectively. Local information suggests that a ‘cave’ was found at the bend in the road when it was being constructed. This road is also forms the townland boundary with Lisnacask. No trace of a souterrain is now visible at this location. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 13 February 2018
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
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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
- 68.2 ha
- 169 acres
- Land parcels
- 6
- registered freehold, median 87,602 m² (8.76 ha, 21.65 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisnacask, from 3,315 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres) to 256,928 m² (25.69 ha, 63.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Lisnacask 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
28 Apr 2021Conditional
Planning permission to construct slatted shed with all ancillary site works.
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 21229
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 Lisnacask.
Recorded monuments
- WM017-009 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a slight rise surrounded by gently undulating grassland. A sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 37m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (H 1m), bisected by a recently constructed roadway running E-W. This roadway (Wth 2.5m; D 2m) has been sunk into the interior of the ringfort and has cut through a souterrain (WM017-009001-). Monument placed on the Register of Historic Monuments, Iris Oifigiúil, 11 November 1983. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 13 February 2018
- WM017-009001 Souterrain
Description
Situated on a slight rise surrounded by gently undulating grassland. Souterrain located in the centre of a ringfort (WM017-009---). The souterrain was exposed when an E-W roadway was cut through the interior of the monument. Visible as a stone built chamber on the S side of the road. A number of large slabs lying nearby are probably roof lintels. A large chamber (H 1m; L 1.5m) is visible on the N side of the road, curving to E before being blocked by collapse. Monument placed on the Register of Historic Monuments, Iris Oifigiúil, 11 November 1983. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 13 February 2018
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lisnacask.
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).
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Lisnacask with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- Name
- Lisnacask
- Area
- 682,456 m² (68.25 ha, 168.64 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathconrath, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rathconrath
- Electoral division
- Skeagh, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bigfurze, Irishtown, Jordanstown, Modranstown, Paddinstown Lower, Paddinstown Upper, Rowlandstown
- Placenames
- Lisnacask 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.