Lackalea
Townland in the civil parish of Kilconickny, barony of Loughrea, Co. Galway; in Irish Na Leaca Liatha
- Area
- 293.6 ha
- 726 acres
- Land parcels
- 76
- registered freehold, median 4,035 m² (0.4 ha, 1 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
76 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lackalea, from 42 m² to 368,606 m² (36.86 ha, 91.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Lackalea 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
16 Oct 2025Refused
for alterations and extension to existing dwelling house, replacement of existing septic tank with new wastewater treatment system, new percolation area and associated site work
Permission · Galway County Council, 2561514
10 Jul 2024Conditional
for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 205.58 sqm (house) & 58 sqm (garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460855
25 Mar 2024Conditional
for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 218 sqm (house) & 58 sqm (garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460327
10 Dec 2023Conditional
for the construction of a Dwelling House, Domestic Garage, Treatment Unit, Percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 204.50 sqm (house) & 58 sqm (garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361478
6 Apr 2023Conditional
for (a) the demolition of a domestic garage attached to existing dwelling house (b) construction of an extension to side and rear of existing dwelling house (c) installation of new septic tank and percolation area (d) construction of a garden shed (e) construction of a porch to front of dwelling (f) minor changes to elevations of the dwelling (g) all associated site services (h) and retain all works on revised site boundaries
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360351
4 Feb 2022Conditional
to construct a dwelling house and garage with treatment plant and percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works: 251.1 sqm + 52.2 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22120
4 Feb 2022Conditional
to construct a dwelling house and garage with treatment plant and percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works: 264.2 sqm + 60 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22121
3 Oct 2019Conditional
for the construction of a new sheep shed along with all associated ancillary concrete on lands. Gross floor space of proposed works: 256.32 sqm
Permission · Galway County Council, 191545
18 Jul 2019Conditional
for the construction of a dwelling house, detached garage, treatment plant and percolation area and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: Dwelling - 257 sqm, Garage - 60 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191108
26 May 2017Conditional
for the construction of: a) a single storey extension to the rear, b) a domestic garage to the side with connecting roof to main dwelling and c) minor elevational changes to the north of previously granted dwelling house (pl. ref. no. 16/541 and all associated site development works. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 102 sqm.)
Permission · Galway County Council, 17756
12 Jan 2017Conditional
for the demolition of existing sub-standard dwelling and for the construction of a new Dwelling House, Domestic garage with fuel store, Treatment Unit, Percolation area, site entrance and all associated site services. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 202 sqm. House, 65.6 sqm Garage.)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 1713
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Lackalea.
Recorded monuments
- GA097-130 Children's burial ground
Description
On a rise in rolling pastureland. This children's burial ground consists of an unenclosed oval area (L 11m; Wth 9.3m) within which a number of randomly placed set stones mark graves. A thorn bush is growing in it and a number of field-clearance boulders are scattered within it. (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 474) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 2 September 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lackalea.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Lackalea.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Lackalea with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Lackalea · Na Leaca Liatha
- Area
- 2,936,453 m² (293.65 ha, 725.61 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilconickny, and its townlands
- Barony
- Loughrea
- Electoral division
- Lackalea, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Lackalea electoral division: 425 people in 119 households; 97% of households own their home; 56% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballygasty, Ballykeeran, Bushfield, Cahernamuck East, Coorbaun, Curraghs, Graigue, Kanargad, Lackafinna South
- Placenames
- Lackalea 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.