Lissatunny
Townland in the civil parish of Kilkenny West, barony of Kilkenny West, Co. Westmeath
- Area
- 58.1 ha
- 144 acres
- Land parcels
- 12
- registered freehold, median 16,029 m² (1.6 ha, 3.96 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lissatunny, from 646 m² to 151,642 m² (15.16 ha, 37.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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
No zone of a development plan covers Lissatunny 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
14 Mar 2022Conditional
Construction of a storey and a half type four-bedroom dwelling, garage, waste water treatment system with percolation area, boundary fence, new entrance onto public road and all associated ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 22110
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 Lissatunny.
Recorded monuments
- WM022-004 Ringfort - rath
Description
Sited on a slight SW-facing slope, in gently undulating and hilly pasture, with good views in all directions. Monument described in 1971 as a small subrectangular-shaped area (diam. 38m) enclosed by a low, steep earth and stone bank which is almost reduced to a scarp. There is no definite trace of a fosse. There is a large disturbance gap in the bank at W and at SSE. The original entrance is not recognisable. The interior has a slight W-facing slope. See attached profile of monument, surveyed and drawn by the ASI Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 15 July 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lissatunny.
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 Lissatunny.
- 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 Lissatunny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- Name
- Lissatunny
- Area
- 580,819 m² (58.08 ha, 143.52 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilkenny West, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilkenny West
- Electoral division
- Auburn, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Auburn electoral division: 785 people in 277 households; 89% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynakill, Lissakillen North, Lowpark or Ballyboy, Portlick, Tonagh
- Placenames
- Lissatunny 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.