Lacklom

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lacklom, from 328 m² to 219,093 m² (21.91 ha, 54.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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 Lacklom 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.

• 30 Mar 2026N/a

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE AND OUTBUILDING AND (2) ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660522

• 11 Mar 2026N/a

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE AND OUTBUILDING, AND (2) ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660388

• 15 Dec 2023Conditional

  EXTENSION TO EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED AND PERMISSION FOR (A) ERECTION OF AN INDOOR HORSE AREA, (B) EXTENSION TO EXISTING TURNOUT SAND PADDOCK, AND (C) ERECTION OF STORAGE SHED

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2351927

• 21 Feb 2018Conditional

  ERECTION OF EXTENSIONS TO 2 NO. EXISTING AGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS BOTH TO BE USED AS "LOOSE HOUSE" HORSE STABLES. PREVIOUS PLANNING REFERENCE NO. 14/50915 REFERS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850246

• 29 Mar 2017Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL BUILDING TO BE USED AS A DAIRY CUBICLE HOUSE INCORPORATING A SLATTED TANK AREA

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750450

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: Durnesh Lough SAC 000138
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Durnesh Lough 000138

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lacklom.

Architectural heritage

• Lacklom Bridge, bridge, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triple-arch bridge carrying road over the Ballintra River, built c. 1780, having V-profile cut stone cutwaters to central piers. North elevation now largely overgrown with vegetation. Segmental-headed arches having roughly dressed voussoirs; squared rubble stone construction to arch barrels. Projecting stones/imposts at springing points to arches. Randomly coursed rubble stone construction to spandrels, abutments and to parapets with soldier coping and rubble stone coping over. Rubble stone wing walls to either side. Tarmacadam deck with grass verges. Located to the north-west Ballintra.

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 low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Lacklom

Area

1,033,237 m² (103.32 ha, 255.32 acres)

Civil parish

Drumhome, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Ballintra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballintra electoral division: 755 people in 290 households; 81% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 41% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardnagalliagh, Ballybulgan, Drumhome, Drumnacroil, Drumoske, Grahamstown, Mullanacross

Placenames

Lacklom 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.