Lacklea

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lacklea, from 64 m² to 519,220 m² (51.92 ha, 128.3 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 Lacklea 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.

• 24 Nov 2023Conditional

  DETACHED ANCILLARY ACCOMMODATION FOR EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2351804

• 6 Mar 2018Conditional

  (1) RETENTION OF A MOBILE HOME ON SITE AND (2) EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850330

• 20 Dec 2017N/a

  EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751955

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: West of Ardara/Maas Road SAC 000197
• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Nillan Bog (Carrickatlieve) SAC 000165
• Special Protection Area: Lough Nillan Bog SPA 004110
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: West Of Ardara/Maas Road 000197
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Nillan Bog (Carrickatlieve) 000165

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lacklea.

Architectural heritage

• McDevitt's Bridge, bridge, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triple-arch bridge, built c.1780, crossing Abhainn Fhia [Owenea River]. Segmental arches with rubble stone voussoirs, cut-stone triangular cut-waters with rendered copings and rubble stone walls and parapets, latter with large field-stones to copings.

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 Lacklea, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Lacklea · An Leac Liath

Area

2,462,857 m² (246.29 ha, 608.59 acres)

Civil parish

Inishkeel, and its townlands

Barony

Boylagh

Electoral division

Graffy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

150 people lived in 65 households in the Graffy electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 19% of homes were built since 2001. 33% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Croaghanarget, Cronacarkfree, Edenfinfreagh, Greenans, Lagnagillew, Mully, Tangaveane

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Lacklea 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.