Lackarour
Lackarour is a townland in the civil parish of Lislee, barony of Ibane and Barryroe, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Leaca Ramhar.
- Area
- 54.3 ha
- 134 acres
- Land parcels
- 34
- registered freehold, median 7,888 m² (0.79 ha, 1.95 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lackarour, from 20 m² to 103,019 m² (10.3 ha, 25.46 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 Lackarour 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
1 Apr 2026Grant with conditions
Permission for the construction of a detached dwelling, detached domestic garage and all ancillary site development works, including a wastewater treatment plant.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0820
12 Mar 2026Invalid - case closed
Permission for construction of a detached dwelling, detached domestic garage and all ancillary site development works, including a wastewater treatment plant.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0608
9 Sept 2024Conditional
Permission for the proposed demolition of existing farm sheds, the construction of a new detached dwelling house, the provision of a waste water treatment unit with percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5703
31 May 2024Conditional
Permission for retention of single storey slatted cow shed, detached agricultural store, open yards, entrance and all associated site works.
Retention · Cork County Council, 24/5009
24 May 2007Conditional
Demolish existing shed and house including attached store, refurbishment of existing shed, provision of two storey detached dwelling and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1357
11 Apr 2007Incompleted application
Demolition of existing house including attached store, provision of two-storey dwelling and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/997
3 Aug 1999New application
Cattle shed with creep area, slatted animal area, loose straw bedded area, feed passage with slatted under- ground tank & concrete yard
Permission · Cork County Council, 99/4246
2 Feb 1998Conditional
Dwelling & domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 98/261
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 Protection Area: Seven Heads SPA 004191
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Seven Heads And Dunworly Bay 001077
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lackarour.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lackarour.
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 Lackarour, 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 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 Lackarour.
- 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 Lackarour with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Lackarour · An Leaca Ramhar
- Area
- 543,387 m² (54.34 ha, 134.27 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lislee, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ibane and Barryroe
- Electoral division
- Courtmacsherry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 905 people lived in 347 households in the Courtmacsherry electoral division. 63% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 31% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballylangy, Ballymacraheen, Knockanemeeleen, Lisleecourt
- Placenames
- Lackarour 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.