Lackabeha West
Townland in the civil parish of Gortroe, barony of Barrymore, Co. Cork; in Irish Leaca Bheithe Thiar
- Area
- 39.4 ha
- 97 acres
- Land parcels
- 5
- registered freehold, median 59,236 m² (5.92 ha, 14.64 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lackabeha West, from 30,246 m² (3.02 ha, 7.47 acres) to 156,338 m² (15.63 ha, 38.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 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 Lackabeha West 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
24 Mar 2016Refused
(i) Construction of a single two storey dwelling house, (ii) demolition of the internal walls to existing cottage, (iii) change of use of the existing cottage to an ancillary store building, (iv) refurbishment works to existing roof external walls, (v) construction of slatted shed and buried effluent storage tank for housing of cattle, (vi) construction of hay and machinery shed, (vii) construction of garage and calving shed, (viii) construction of new entrance adjacent to existing entrance and closing existing entrance, (ix) construction of biocycle and percolation area, (x) construction of groundwater well, (xi)construction of access road, (xii) associated site works including bunded diesel tank, and (xiii) removal of embankment and a single laurel tree and widening of existing road
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4669
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
Recorded monuments
- CO044-042 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on W-facing slope. Hachured as oval enclosure (c. 30m E-W; c.25m N-S) on 1842 OS 6-inch map, inside SE corner of demesne wall of Killshannig House (CO044-033---). No visible surface trace. Demesne wall curves on Eside to respect site. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Architectural heritage
- Ward's Bridge, bridge, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
Description
Triple-arch road bridge over River Flesk, built c. 1840. Coursed rubble stone walls having render copings. Elliptical arches having light tooling to voussoirs, with V-cutwaters to upstream elevation.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1289 (ZIP).
- 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 Lackabeha West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Lackabeha West · Leaca Bheithe Thiar
- Area
- 393,815 m² (39.38 ha, 97.31 acres)
- Civil parish
- Gortroe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Barrymore
- Electoral division
- Gortroe, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Gortroe electoral division: 815 people in 273 households; 90% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinterry, Ballyda, Baneena North, Gneeves, Kilshannig Upper, Lackabeha East
- Placenames
- Lackabeha West 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.