Lackeen

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lackeen, from 391 m² to 386,698 m² (38.67 ha, 95.56 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Lackeen 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.

• 9 Jul 2020Conditional

  Relocation of the existing site entrance to the existing dwellinghouse and for the closure of the existing site entrance

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5431

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 Lackeen.

Recorded monuments

• CO007-102 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on break in E-facing slope. Depicted on 1842 OS 6-inch map as hachured circular enclosure; open on E side on 1905 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps. Circular area (44.8m NE-SW) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.65m; ext. H 1.3m) SSE->NE; low rise elsewhere. Interior slopes gently down to E. 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

• CO007-103 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on NW-facing slope c. 40m E of Awbeg River. Circular slightly raised area (30.3m NW-SE; 28.3m NE-SW) enclosed by fosse (D 0.5m); outer bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.45m; Wth 5.4m) with external fosse (D 0.9m). Drain with field boundary outside truncates fosses and bank to NW. Break (Wth 1.6m) in bank to S, with causeway across outer fosse. 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

• CO007-147 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of fosse of circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) visible in aerial photograph (CASAP, July 1989). Linear cropmark across field and through centre of enclosure on N-S axis; field fence shown on 1936 OS 6-inch map immediately to S also visible as cropmark. 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

• CO016-027002 Graveyard
  Description

  In pasture, in centre of early ecclesiastical enclosure (13886). Depicted on 1842 OS 6-inch map as rectangular graveyard (c. 45m NW-SE; c. 28m SW-NE) defined by broken line; church (14440) S of centre on E-W axis. Roughly trapezoidal area (c. 22m E-W; c. 10m max. N-S) enclosed by stone wall. North wall of enclosure joins E and W gables of church close to S ends; S wall of church forms part of N side. Outside enclosed area, raised area defined by scarped edge (H c. 1m), continuing line of graveyard wall on W side for c. 10m to N, turning E and extending c. 3m outside N and E walls of church, before meeting N wall of graveyard; this is sole visible remains of N half of graveyard as shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map. 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

• CO016-027003 Church
  Description

  South wall of church forms part of N wall of graveyard (14602). Ruin of rectangular church (int. 11.35m E-W; int. 6.1m N-S). East gable survives best at S end (max. H 4.5m), reduced to H 1m at N side. Line of N wall marked by rubble at E end, at W end by low wall (H 1m), lined with rubble internally. South wall survives best to E (max. H 4m), reduced to rubble to W; roughly blocked ope (Wth 2m), c. 1m W of E gable, extends to full height of wall but may be remains of window ope. West gable survives to near full height, but masked by ivy. Remains of parish church of Lackeen. Reported out of use in 1615, in ruins by 1774 (Brady 1863, vol. 2, 299-301). 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

• CO016-027004 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture, on SE side of early ecclesiastical enclosure (13886). According to local information, fulacht fiadh material noted in perimeter of enclosure. No visible surface trace. 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

• CO016-028 Moated site
  Description

  In level rough grazing. Trapezium-shaped area (76m N-S; at N side 59.6m E-W; at S side 35m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.2m) with external fosse (D 1m) and shallow second fosse (D 0.2m) c. 3m outside first. Bank survives best on E side where there is break at N end. On S side bank noticeably lower. West bank low and wide with breaks in two places (near S end: Wth 4m; near N end: Wth 2.1m). Break in N bank (Wth 7m) close to W end, now blocked by stone wall with 1m gap remaining; bank to E of gap wide with outer face raised and shallow depression inside; lime kiln (ruined) incorporated into NE corner of bank. Growth of rushes along outer shallow fosse except at NE corner. Interior pocked with quarry pits. On 1937 OS 6-inch map, stream shown flowing from NW corner to join Awbeg River c. 1.26km to N. 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

• CO016-276 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of outer fosse of circular enclosure visible in aerial photograph (CASAP, July 1989); possible entrances to SSW and WNW; faint trace of narrower inner concentric fosse also noted giving diam. of c. 30m. Linear cropmarks noted in vicinity of site may be levelled field boundaries. 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

• CO016-288 Country house
  Description

  Two-storey 19th century house, built of random-rubble with dressed limestone quoins. Front (SE) of 3 bays: central doorway with engaged Ionic columns supporting fanlight; sash windows with glazing bars and limestone sills. Hipped roof of slate with slightly projecting eaves; two off-centre chimneys of cut stone. Central round-headed stairway window at rear. Two 1-storey gabled projections to rear on NE side. Date plaque inscribed '1845' on pier of entrance gateway. 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

• Fort Moylan, house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1830, having recent single-bay single-storey hipped projection to north gable, two-bay single-storey and single-bay single-storey pitched projections and courtyard of outbuildings to rear (east). Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and limestone ashlar chimneystacks having terracotta chimney pots. Coursed limestone rubble walls. Square-headed window openings, having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to front elevation and four-over-two pane double sash windows and round-headed six-over-six pane window to rear, all with limestone sills. Some replacement uPVC sash windows to rear projections, replacement timber casement to north side projection. Round-headed door opening having tooled limestone voussoirs, moulded archivolt obscuring date to tooled limestone date-stone, timber panelled door with cast-iron door furniture and spoked timber fanlight, flanked by engaged colums with plinths and capitals, approached by two diminishing limestone steps. Outbuildings to rear separated from house by coursed rubble wall having recent timber battened double-leaf gates. Five-bay single-storey building to east and four-bay single-storey to south, having pitched corrugated-asbestos roofs, coursed limestone rubble and rendered walls, remains of timber casement windows and corrugated-iron doors. Recent single-storey open-sided barrel corrugated-iron roof barn to north. Curved coursed rubble entrance walls terminating in square-plan piers with pointed caps and double-leaf wrought-iron gates. Carved date to east pier.

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

At the centre of the townland of Lackeen, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

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

Name

Lackeen · Leac Fhinn

Area

1,133,707 m² (113.37 ha, 280.15 acres)

Civil parish

Lackeen, and its townlands

Barony

Orrery and Kilmore

Electoral division

Liscarroll, the unit of the census

Census 2022

627 people lived in 237 households in the Liscarroll electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Altamira, Ballynaboul, Ballyvaheen, Coolmore, Creggannacourty, Knockardbane, Moyge

Placenames

Lackeen 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.