Lackcrom

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lackcrom, from 708 m² to 268,552 m² (26.86 ha, 66.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Lackcrom 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Lackcrom in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Lackcrom.

Recorded monuments

• DG094-001 Souterrain
  Description

  A heap of stones seems to mark the site of the 'souterrain' recorded here (O. Davies). The feature was not strictly underground but built up against a rock bank. The remainder was formed of boulders. Two 'windows' looked out onto the stream which ran parallel to the passage which was 6ft long. The end of this had collapsed so that it may well have been longer. It was roofed with two large flagstones packed with smaller stones. The entrance was 1ft 7in high and 2ft wide. The site seems to have resembled St. Faned's Cell (DG080-024002-). The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG094-004 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  This monument, quite overgrown by trees and bushes, lies 3.5km to the N of Donegal town. It stands at the southern end of a terrace of wettish pasture and is overlooked from the N by sharply rising ground 200m away; immediately beyond the field wall to the S of the remains there is a sharp drop. To the S is an extensive outlook including a view over the inner end of Donegal Bay. The rear chamber of a ruined gallery facing SSE survives here among the disturbed remains of a partly grass-grown cairn. The substantial mass of the disturbed cairn remains is as depicted on the plan. In overall extent it measures 20m N-S by 16m E-W. To the W of the gallery the cairn is as much as 1m high, but it is reduced to a low spread of stones at the E. There is, in addition, a considerable scatter of stones in the overgrowth around the site. The surviving portion of the gallery is almost 4m long. At the SSE a sillstone stands between a jamb to the W and what appears to be a fallen jamb to the E. Beyond the upright jamb are two sidestones, the southern one overlain by a corbel. Gallery closure was achieved by a slightly gabled backstone that now leans outward. The E side of the gallery is missing. The western jamb, which appears to have been inset in the gallery wall, is more or less flat on top. It is 1.1m high and rises 0.8m above the top of the sillstone. The latter stone is 0.2m in exposed height. The fallen jamb, if stood on end, would measure 0.85m by 0.5m by 1.5m high. The sidestone next to the intact jamb decreases in height from 0.4m at the front, where it is 0.5m lower than the top of the jamb, to just 0.05m at its inner end. The corbel above this, its outer end resting on the ground, measures 1.95m by 1m and is 0.25m thick. At the inner edge of this orthostat is a low stone, 0.35m high. This stone is not firmly set and may not be in situ. The northern sidestone, the inner end of which is concealed, is skewed inward so as to narrow the back of the gallery. It is 0.55m high. The backstone, set inside the end of this, leans outward at an angle of c. 45 degrees. It would stand 1m high if upright. Approximately 0.45m beyond the backstone there is a slab, 1.5m by 1.1m and 0.2m thick, laid flat on some small cairn stones. The neatness of the arrangement suggests that it may be a deliberate feature, although it cannot be regarded as part of the original structure. Just 1m NW of this is a small upright stone close to the cairn edge. This is quite firmly set and measures 0.55m by 0.25m by 0.5m high. It may be a kerbstone, but this cannot be confirmed, and it is not hatched on the plan. Approximately 0.6m E of the flat slab resting on cairn stones is a stone in an upright position. Partly concealed, it is 0.25m high, 0.2m thick and at least 0.9m long. Its status is unclear, but it may owe its upright position to the support of a tree root in which it is entangled. Some large slabs that lie prostrate in front of the gallery are shown on the plan. These are up to 1.6m in maximum dimension. Near the wall at the southern edge of the cairn are more displaced slabs. These, not shown on the plan, are up to 1.2m in maximum dimension. Thomas Fagan (1845-8) visited here in 1847 and noted that the structure had been largely destroyed. He has recorded a claim that human bones 'were dug up' during the attempted demolition of the monument. He also noted that another 'enclosed grave' had stood 30 yards (c. 27.5m) N of the tomb described here but that it had been destroyed. There is no visible trace of such a grave. Fagan 1845-8, book 14, 7; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 48, no. 170 (listed as an apparently natural feature owing to misidentification of the site); SMR 1987, 94:4; Ó Nualláin 1989, 117; RMP 1995, 94:4. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Date of upload: 22 September 2008 See linked document with details from Eamon Cody, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI. County Donegal. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002)

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lackcrom.

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 Lackcrom, about 1 in 20 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 Lackcrom.

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 Lackcrom with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Lackcrom · Leac Crom

Area

3,339,521 m² (333.95 ha, 825.21 acres)

Civil parish

Killymard, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Haugh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

235 people lived in 76 households in the Haugh electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Altilow, Heneys, Meenawilderg, Ogherbeg, Tullynagreana, Winterhill

Placenames

Lackcrom 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.