# Lacklom, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Drumhome, barony of Tirhugh, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,033,237 m² (103.32 ha, 255.32 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 13,995 m² (1.4 ha, 3.46 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Drumhome, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/drumhome.md - Barony: Tirhugh - Electoral division: Ballintra, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 755 people lived in 290 households in the Ballintra electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 41% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/13792 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51653 - Centre: latitude 54.586085, longitude -8.156242 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lacklom, from 328 m² to 219,093 m² (21.91 ha, 54.14 acres); 26 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1376029: 219,093 m² (21.91 ha, 54.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1376029.md - Parcel 1412453: 174,118 m² (17.41 ha, 43.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1412453.md - Parcel 1412452: 114,364 m² (11.44 ha, 28.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1412452.md - Parcel 1357363: 78,930 m² (7.89 ha, 19.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357363.md - Parcel 2389908: 74,898 m² (7.49 ha, 18.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2389908.md - Parcel 1332107: 63,586 m² (6.36 ha, 15.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1332107.md - Parcel 6197401: 61,700 m² (6.17 ha, 15.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6197401.md - Parcel 1410006: 55,339 m² (5.53 ha, 13.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1410006.md - Parcel 1526590: 33,844 m² (3.38 ha, 8.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1526590.md - Parcel 1526589: 24,661 m² (2.47 ha, 6.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1526589.md - Parcel 2389907: 23,125 m² (2.31 ha, 5.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2389907.md - Parcel 1410007: 20,725 m² (2.07 ha, 5.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1410007.md - Parcel 1309592: 17,014 m² (1.7 ha, 4.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1309592.md - Parcel 4963025: 10,976 m² (1.1 ha, 2.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4963025.md - Parcel 1427099: 10,261 m² (1.03 ha, 2.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1427099.md - Parcel 1330036: 8,808 m² (0.88 ha, 2.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1330036.md - Parcel 1366598: 8,262 m² (0.83 ha, 2.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1366598.md - Parcel 4963038: 4,320 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4963038.md - Parcel 6197319: 3,539 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6197319.md - Parcel 1405349: 3,351 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1405349.md - Parcel 1362166: 2,937 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1362166.md - Parcel 4869336: 2,876 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4869336.md - Parcel 1340301: 2,146 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340301.md - Parcel 1378274: 1,878 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1378274.md - Parcel 3661894: 914 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3661894.md - Parcel 6197340: 328 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6197340.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 30 Mar 2026, Donegal County Council 2660522: N/a. Permission, 1 home. (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE AND OUTBUILDING AND (2) ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660522/0 - 11 Mar 2026, Donegal County Council 2660388: N/a. Permission, 1 home. (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE AND OUTBUILDING, AND (2) ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660388/0 - 15 Dec 2023, Donegal County Council 2351927: Conditional. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2351927/0 - 21 Feb 2018, Donegal County Council 1850246: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1850246/0 - 29 Mar 2017, Donegal County Council 1750450: Conditional. Permission. ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL BUILDING TO BE USED AS A DAIRY CUBICLE HOUSE INCORPORATING A SLATTED TANK AREA. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1750450/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Durnesh Lough SAC, site code 000138, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000138 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Durnesh Lough, site code 000138 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lacklom. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Lacklom Bridge, bridge, 1760–1800, Regional interest, registry number 40910330, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40910330. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Lacklom, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as 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 Lacklom. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/lacklom.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/lacklom.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/lacklom.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Lacklom with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ardnagalliagh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ardnagalliagh.md - Ballybulgan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballybulgan.md - Drumhome: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumhome.md - Drumnacroil: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumnacroil.md - Drumoske: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumoske.md - Grahamstown: https://everytownland.com/donegal/grahamstown.md - Mullanacross: https://everytownland.com/donegal/mullanacross.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/lacklom - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/lacklom