Lacken

79 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lacken, from 15 m² to 366,952 m² (36.7 ha, 90.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Kilmihil Settlement Plan, Clare · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• O2Village Growth Area (General)
  Kilmihil Settlement Plan, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 11 Sept 2026N/a

  for development which will consist of the demolishing of existing on-site cattle mart buildings, and the construction of (A) 2 x No. 3 bedroom detached single storey dwellings, (B) 3 x No. 4 bedroom detached single storey dwellings with attic accommodation, (C) 1 x No. 4 bedroom detached storey and a half style dwelling, (D) 2 x No. 3 bedroom detached two storey dwellings, (E) 26 x No.3 bedroom two storey semi-detached dwellings houses (F) 3 x No. 2 storey units each containing 2 x No. 2 own door bedroom apartments (Total number of 40 residential units), with connections to public services, new entrance from public road, and all associated site works

  Permission, 40 homes · Clare County Council, 2660594

• 15 Jul 2025Conditional

  for the installation of a cattle underpass and all other associated site and ancillary works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 2560439

• 18 Apr 2025N/a

  for the installation of a cattle underpass and all other associated site and ancillary works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 2560201

• 25 Mar 2025Conditional

  for development, the development will consist of renovation and extension of existing farmhouse

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2583

• 29 Aug 2022N/a

  to construct a new dwelling house, entrance, private garage, wastewater management system and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 22770

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 the townland of Lacken.

Recorded monuments

• CL048-086 Crannog
  Description

  At the E extent of Lough More. A small subcircular tree-covered island (diam. c. 20m) indicated on all OS map editions and lying c. 33m from the E shore. Visible on Google Earth (imagery date 15 April 2020) and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère (March 2024). Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 12 November 2025

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lacken.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Lacken, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lacken.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.

No address of the register names Lacken with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Lacken · An Leacain

Area

2,817,193 m² (281.72 ha, 696.14 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmihil, and its townlands

Barony

Clonderalaw

Electoral division

Glenmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

389 people lived in 132 households in the Glenmore electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 16% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Kilmihil, Knockalough, Knockmore, Lack East

Placenames

Lacken 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.