Lacka Beg

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lacka Beg, from 623 m² to 247,380 m² (24.74 ha, 61.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Lacka Beg 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.

• 31 Jul 2026N/a

  Retain (A) First Floor/Attic storage rooms and bathroom as constructed to existing dwelling with associated Elevational changes to the dwelling and (B) Retain stand-alone storage shed to rear of dwelling

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 26125

• 3 Nov 2025Conditional

  Permission to construct an easy feed slatted house complete with slatted slurry tank, incorporating a straw bedded area, linked to existing slatted house and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2561020

• 17 Jul 2024Conditional

  RETAIN (A) EXISTING GARAGE ON SITE (B) RETAIN POSITION OF SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA (C) RETAIN EXISTING FRONT BOUNDARY FENCE AND ENTRANCE WALL

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 24304

• 9 Jul 2019Refused

  CONSTRUCT A 2 STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, SHED, PROPRIETARY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19717

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Lacka Beg.

Recorded monuments

• KE021-098 Enclosure
  Description

  This circular enclosure is marked on the 1841-42 OS map, but it does not appear on the 1898 OS map, and no surface trace survives today. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 1089. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_124 (ZIP).

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 Lacka Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Lacka Beg · An Leaca Bheag

Area

1,401,668 m² (140.17 ha, 346.36 acres)

Civil parish

O'Dorney, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmaurice

Electoral division

Abbeydorney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Abbeydorney electoral division: 1,244 people in 458 households; 76% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonametagh, Dromcunnig, Lacka More, Lissanearla East, Lissanearla West

Placenames

Lacka Beg 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.