Lackeel

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lackeel, from 562 m² to 300,416 m² (30.04 ha, 74.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Lackeel 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.

• 3 Jun 2008Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and installation of septic tank

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 08/7073

• 11 May 2006Conditional

  Dwelling and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7075

• 29 Sept 2005Conditional

  Revised site boundaries for permitted dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/7093

• 26 Apr 2004Conditional

  Bungalow with treatment unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/2764

• 26 Jan 2004Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/343

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 Lackeel.

Recorded monuments

• CO016-144 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on higher ground above stream. Depicted as hachured square area (c. 45m x c. 45m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) surrounded by fosse on 1905 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. Site heavily overgrown; interior enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.4m), with external fosse (max. D 1.2m). Possible counterscarp bank survives to NW, as low wide bank. Entrance (Wth 1.2m) to NW; on S side of break, gap in line of fosse for short distance with steep drop down to stream c. 8-9m from base of bank. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO016-145 Graveyard
  Description

  On elevated site, on W side of road, overlooking Ballygrady cross roads. Irregular-shaped graveyard (c. 50m N-S; c. 50m E-W), defined to S, W and NW by curving wall of sandstone; roadside wall to E largely collapsed; entrance gate piers on S side also much ruined. Interior overgrown and sloping down to S; vandalised vault in NE quadrant is only burial marker evident. No visible surface trace of C of I parish church of Kilbrin shown as rectangular structure in centre of graveyard on 1842 OS 6-inch map; Lewis (1837, vol. 2, 56) described this as 'a plain building with a square tower surmounted by a small spire; it was erected in 1788'; likely that graveyard not much older than this church. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO016-241 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In deciduous plantation, c. 100m W of river. Oval mound of burnt material (7m N-S; 6.6m E-W; H 0.72m); slight indentation in S side. Drain running along NW side of site has possibly truncated mound; burnt material (D 0.6m) visible in section in drain. Redeposited burnt material noted in gap in field fence immediately N of site. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 376), who noted that 'the burned stones on the surface have been removed'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO016-265 Mound
  Description

  In rough grazing, on W side of stream. Mound (diam. 8m; H 0.7m) is circular and planted with trees. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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

• Lackeel House, house, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1820, having two-bay single-storey extensions to rear with lean-to and flat roofs. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles having rendered and replacement block chimneystacks, with some cast-iron rainwater goods. Coursed sandstone rubble walls with some red brick vent bricks to plinth. Square-headed window openings having sandstone voussoirs, tooled limestone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with ogee sash horns and some timber panelled shutters internally. Round-headed door opening having render surround with square-profile Doric-style pilasters with plinths and moulded archivolt. Timber panelled door with cobweb fanlight having decorative surround. Outbuilding and cobbled yard to rear, having three-bay single-storey outbuilding with hipped slate roof, coursed sandstone rubble walls, square-headed windows and central elliptical-headed carrigae entrance with limestone voussoirs and double-leaf timber battened door. Recent entrance to west.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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.

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

Name

Lackeel · An Leathchoill

Area

645,906 m² (64.59 ha, 159.61 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbrin, and its townlands

Barony

Duhallow

Electoral division

Castlecor, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castlecor electoral division: 464 people in 172 households; 90% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardaprior, Ballygrady North, Knockalohert, Mahanagh, Rossnanarney

Placenames

Lackeel 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.