# Lackan Upper, Co. Cavan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballintemple, barony of Clanmahon, Co. Cavan. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 749,800 m² (74.98 ha, 185.28 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 5,942 m² (0.59 ha, 1.47 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballintemple, https://everytownland.com/cavan/parish/ballintemple.md - Barony: Clanmahon - Electoral division: Ballintemple, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 431 people lived in 147 households in the Ballintemple electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 21% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Cavan, https://everytownland.com/cavan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/4408 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 21406 - Centre: latitude 53.915439, longitude -7.44479 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lackan Upper, from 78 m² to 112,145 m² (11.21 ha, 27.71 acres); 37 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 436134: 112,145 m² (11.21 ha, 27.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/436134.md - Parcel 443849: 90,791 m² (9.08 ha, 22.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/443849.md - Parcel 490234: 85,716 m² (8.57 ha, 21.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/490234.md - Parcel 454337: 70,070 m² (7.01 ha, 17.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/454337.md - Parcel 445210: 62,130 m² (6.21 ha, 15.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/445210.md - Parcel 466774: 47,990 m² (4.8 ha, 11.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/466774.md - Parcel 476463: 45,597 m² (4.56 ha, 11.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/476463.md - Parcel 472694: 41,696 m² (4.17 ha, 10.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/472694.md - Parcel 1521708: 27,025 m² (2.7 ha, 6.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1521708.md - Parcel 481147: 25,445 m² (2.54 ha, 6.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/481147.md - Parcel 1521709: 21,314 m² (2.13 ha, 5.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1521709.md - Parcel 447274: 17,847 m² (1.78 ha, 4.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/447274.md - Parcel 468039: 16,997 m² (1.7 ha, 4.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/468039.md - Parcel 466287: 15,201 m² (1.52 ha, 3.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/466287.md - Parcel 442989: 8,727 m² (0.87 ha, 2.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/442989.md - Parcel 467507: 7,628 m² (0.76 ha, 1.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/467507.md - Parcel 487131: 6,023 m² (0.6 ha, 1.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/487131.md - Parcel 475479: 5,862 m² (0.59 ha, 1.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/475479.md - Parcel 471683: 5,601 m² (0.56 ha, 1.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/471683.md - Parcel 448902: 4,890 m² (0.49 ha, 1.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/448902.md - Parcel 3084397: 4,615 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3084397.md - Parcel 459589: 4,475 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/459589.md - Parcel 481446: 4,165 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/481446.md - Parcel 478312: 3,588 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/478312.md - Parcel 473631: 3,210 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/473631.md - Parcel 476611: 2,388 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/476611.md - Parcel 5059022: 1,880 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5059022.md - Parcel 472956: 1,783 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/472956.md - Parcel 467647: 1,260 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/467647.md - Parcel 474108: 1,145 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/474108.md - Parcel 5059024: 848 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5059024.md - Parcel 447250: 619 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/447250.md - Parcel 491653: 545 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/491653.md - Parcel 471313: 78 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/471313.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Lackan Upper 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) 5 applications, newest first. - 28 Jan 2026, Cavan County Council 2660032: Conditional. Permission. for (A) RETENTION of the existing multi-purpose room on the first floor. (B) PERMISSION to construct a new external fire escape stairs from the first floor and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660032/0 - 7 Dec 2023, Cavan County Council 2360303: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. of as constructed detached domestic Storage Building to dwelling house. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360303/0 - 15 Feb 2023, Cavan County Council 2349: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for alterations to previously approved dwelling pl. ref. 21/215 and will include (1) relocation of previously approved garage (2) erection of attached carport (3) alterations to site boundary (4) alterations to plans & elevations & all associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2349/0 - 14 Apr 2021, Cavan County Council 21215: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to erect fully serviced two storey dwelling with detached domestic garage, entrance, sewerage treatment facilities & all ancillary works. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/21215/0 - 26 Jul 2017, Cavan County Council 17327: Conditional. Permission. to construct a seven bay shed which will consist of calving pens, cubicles, slatted area with slurry holding tank underneath and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/17327/0 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 Lackan Upper. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lackan Upper. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lackan Upper. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Lackan Upper, about 1 in 5 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lackan Upper. - 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/cavan/lackan-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cavan/lackan-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cavan/lackan-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Lackan Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan: https://everytownland.com/cavan.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Corduff: https://everytownland.com/cavan/corduff-20415.md - Drumbrade: https://everytownland.com/cavan/drumbrade-20822.md - Lackan Lower: https://everytownland.com/cavan/lackan-lower.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/cavan/lackan-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cavan/lackan-upper