Lackenbaun
Lackenbaun is a townland in the civil parish of Killaloe, barony of Tulla Lower, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is Na Leicne Bána.
- Area
- 63.2 ha
- 156 acres
- Land parcels
- 23
- registered freehold, median 3,103 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres)
- Zoning
- O2
- Cluster
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lackenbaun, from 60 m² to 218,135 m² (21.81 ha, 53.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- O2Cluster (General)
Garraunboy Cluster, Clare · 11 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
18 Jul 2023Conditional
of extensions to the front, side and rear of their house and permission to retain steel framed shed to the rear of their house, and also for PERMISSION to replace existing sub standard septic tank with an effluent treatment system and soil polishing filter and all associated site works
Retention · Clare County Council, 23405
14 Sept 2022Conditional
to (i) amend the design of the glamping pods and toilet block (ii) amend the site layout of planning permission as granted under Planning Reg. Ref. P21-900
Permission · Clare County Council, 22818
26 Aug 2021Conditional
to apply for six glamping pods, toilet block, car parking area, vehicular access, wastewater treatment plant, and ancillary site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 21900
12 Mar 2019Conditional
for the construction of a single storey dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, entrance and all ancillary site works.
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 19178
2 Jan 2018Refused
for the following development: Construction of a 1.5 storey detached dwelling, detached domestic double garage, proprietary waste water treatment system, bored well, new entrance, connection to necessary services, boundary treatments and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 182
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 Lackenbaun.
Recorded monuments
- CL045-043 Enclosure
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
- Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart and Saint Lua, church/chapel, 1905–1910 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding gable-fronted double-height Romanesque Revival Roman Catholic church, dated 1909, with five-bay side elevations having two-bay single-storey sacristy to left and single-bay chancel to rear. Pitched slate roof with cut-stone gable copings and bellcote. Pebbledashed walls with inscribed date plaque over entrance. Round-headed openings with render block-and-start surrounds, label mouldings and leaded glass windows. Round-headed door opening with columns and timber matchboard double leaf doors having strap hinges, flanked by round-headed windows with continuous label mouldings above. Round-headed openings above entrance with rose window flanked columns having stepped sill and label mouldings above and below. Retaining interior features including sheeted timber ceiling, braced timber trusses on cut stone corbels, round head chancel arch, marble columns to altar and plate tracery to chancel window. Channelled render gate piers with semi-cylindrical copings and wrought-iron gates set in rubble stone boundary walls. Graveyard to site.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Lackenbaun, about 1 in 10 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1083 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Lackenbaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Lackenbaun · Na Leicne Bána
- Area
- 631,770 m² (63.18 ha, 156.11 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killaloe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tulla Lower
- Electoral division
- Killaloe, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,300 people lived in 887 households in the Killaloe electoral division. 64% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballycorney, Ballygarreen, Cloonfadda, Creeveroe, Garraunboy
- Placenames
- Lackenbaun 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.