Lackareagh
Lackareagh is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmichael, barony of Muskerry West, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Leaca Riabhach.
- Area
- 221.6 ha
- 548 acres
- Land parcels
- 24
- registered freehold, median 45,697 m² (4.57 ha, 11.29 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 19
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lackareagh, from 1,136 m² to 593,535 m² (59.35 ha, 146.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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
No zone of a development plan covers Lackareagh 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
11 Jun 2021Conditional
a) Construction of a livestock shed consisting of cubicles, straw bedded area, flow channels and underground slatted tanks b) Modifications and extension to existing unroofed yard to include handling facilities and post milking yard and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5620
12 Apr 2019Conditional
A dwellinghouse, an effluent treatment system and associated site works (Change of house design granted under Planning Reg. No. 16/6200).
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4909
1 Sept 2016Conditional
Dwellinghouse and effluent treatment system and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6200
29 Apr 2016Conditional
Ten year permission to construct an underground electricity cable. The proposed underground electricity cable will be 38kV, will run predominantly within the public road corridor and is intended to connect the proposed Shehy More Wind Farm (Pl. Ref. 13/551, An Bord Pleanála PL04. 243486) to the National Grid via either the permitted substation at Garranareagh (Pl. Ref. 11/6605, An Bord Pleanála PL04.219620) or the currently proposed substation at Barnadivane (Kneeves) (Pl. Ref. 14/557, An Bord Pleanála PL04.244439). At time of lodging this application the proposed Shehy More Wind Farm and proposed substation at Barnadivane (Kneeves) remain under appeal with An Bord Pleanála.
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/256
23 Dec 2014Conditional permission
The construction of six wind turbines, with a maximum tip height of up to 131m and associated turbine foundations and hardstanding areas, 1 no. permanent meteorological mast up to 90m in height, upgrade of existing and provision of new site tracks and associated drainage, new access junction and improvements to public road to facilitate turbine delivery, 1 no. borrow pit, underground electrical and communications cables, permanent signage and other associated ancillary infrastructure. This application is intended to replace the development already granted permission under PL04.219620 (05/5907) and subsequently extended under 11/6605. This application is seeking a 10-year planning permission. An Environmental Impact Statement and AA Screening Report have been prepared in respect of the planning application.
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/6760
15 Dec 2011Unconditional
Completion of construction of 18 wind turbines, 18 transformers, a 110 KV substation, 110 KV switch station, 70 metres wind monitoring mast, construction and upgrading of site entrances, site tracks and associated works as permitted under ABP ref. no. PL 04.219620 (Pl. reg. no. 05/5907)
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 11/6605
12 Sept 2011Conditional
Demolition of existing detached dwelling (94.0m2) and construction of a new replacement detached dwelling (277.0m2), waste water treatment system, modifications to existing farm gate entrance to provide new dwelling entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/5958
30 Aug 2011Incompleted application
Demolition of existing detached dwelling (94.0 square metres), construction of a new replacement detached dwelling (277.0 square metres), waste water treatment system, modifications to existing farm gate entrance to provide new dwelling entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/5872
19 Nov 2008Unconditional
Completion of wind farm to include 5 no. turbines, control housing and electrical compound, anemometer mast, anemometer, service roadways and associated works granted under Pl. Reg. No. 03/2047 (new permission to expire on 01/11/2011)
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 08/9783
6 Oct 2006Refused
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/11240
13 Oct 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/7475
17 Aug 2005Conditional
18 no. wind turbines, 18 no. transformers, 110kV substation, 110kV switch station, 1 no. 70m high wind monitoring mast, construction and upgrading of site entrances, site tracks and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/5907
16 Aug 2004Withdrawn
Construction of 110 kV electrical substation and 110 kV switch station including control buildings
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/6264
13 Aug 2004Conditional
Demolition of dwellinghouse, construction of dwellinghouse, installation of treatment unit and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/6217
4 Jun 2004Conditional
Construction of ground and first floor extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/4078
20 May 2004Incompleted application
Extension to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/3521
20 May 2003Conditional
Windfarm to include 23 no. turbines, 60m meteorological mast, 110kv substation and switch station, entrances,site tracks & associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/2365
1 May 2003Conditional
Wind farm to include 5 no. turbines, control housing and electrical compound anemometer mast, anemometer, service roadways & assoc. works
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/2047
1 Nov 2001Conditional
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 01/5986
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 Lackareagh.
Recorded monuments
- CO083-078 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on NNW-facing slope. Circular area (28.7m E-W; 28.5m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (H 2m); shallow external fosse to E. Bank stone-faced in parts externally. Gap (Wth 1.5m) in bank to N; approach defined by low ridge on either side; cairn of field clearance stones dumped outside entrance beyond ridges. Stone-faced field boundary (H 1.1m) to SW and NW, 8m outside bank and concentric with it. Interior cut into hillside on SSE side and raised on NNW side to compensate for hillslope; crossed by remains of cultivation ridges on N-S axis. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lackareagh.
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 Lackareagh, 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 high, 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 Lackareagh.
- 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 Lackareagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Lackareagh · An Leaca Riabhach
- Area
- 2,216,492 m² (221.65 ha, 547.71 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmichael, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry West
- Electoral division
- Greenville, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 309 people lived in 99 households in the Greenville electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Barnadivane, Barnadivane (Kneeves), Clearagh, Garranereagh, Greenville, Knockane, Knockboy
- Placenames
- Lackareagh 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.