Inishlackan

71 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Inishlackan, from 17 m² to 54,433 m² (5.44 ha, 13.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 0 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 Inishlackan 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 Inishlackan 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

• Special Protection Area: Connemara Islands SPA 004159
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Bertraghboy Bay 001234

Recorded monuments

• GA063-004001 Midden
  Description

  In an indented dune system (L c. 160m), running roughly NW-SE, at the NE tip of Inishlackan. The dunes are highest towards the SE end (H c. 2m), where the most extensive tract of the midden survives. The midden was initially inspected in September 1984 and is still much the same as it was then, when it was visible 'as an irregular spread of occupation material and, where exposed in section, as a number of successive occupation bands composed of shells, burnt stone and charcoal (Gosling 1993, 86). Two distinct bands of shells are visible at the SE end of the system. The upper one (H c. 0.4-0.8m) is densely packed with limpet, periwinkle and oyster shells. Similar shells in the lower band (H c. 1.2-1.6m) are much more loosely packed and extend down to the base of the dunes. No charcoal was noted but some bone was found. Some rabbit burrows were also noted in the dune face towards the SE end of the system. The following images of the midden, moving from its SE end to its NE end, have been uploaded: GA063-004001-_01 GA063-004001-_02 GA063-004001-_03 GA063-004001-_04 GA063-004001-_05 Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 11 March 2022

• GA063-004002 Burial
  Description

  Associated with a coastal midden (GA063-004001-) in the sand dunes at the NE end of Inishlackan. According to local information, a number of burials were noted on the W edge of the midden in the mid-1970s. On inspection in September 1984 no visible surface traces of them were found (SMR file). Following a report of exposed human bone in June 2021, the island was revisited. Dispersed bones were found on the ground surface among a scatter of stones (L 1m x Wth 0.8m), a little inland from the SE end of the midden. One distinctive stone (L 0.11m; Wth 0.25m; T 0.14m) at the E end had the appearance of a possible headstone. The bones were removed for analysis. (Gosling 1993, 143) Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 11 March 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 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.

Terrain model

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

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 Inishlackan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Inishlackan · Inis Leacan

Area

576,445 m² (57.64 ha, 142.44 acres)

Civil parish

Moyrus, and its townlands

Barony

Ballynahinch

Electoral division

Roundstone, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Roundstone electoral division: 445 people in 187 households; 67% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 48% were holiday homes.

Placenames

Inishlackan 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.