Lacka East

59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lacka East, from 454 m² to 241,460 m² (24.15 ha, 59.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 45 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 East 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.

• 10 Nov 2025Conditional

  Full planning permission to (A) construct new dwelling house and (B) construct new septic tank and percolation area along with all ancillary site services at Coolroe Upper, Glenbeigh, Co.Kerry

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2561042

• 2 Aug 2019Conditional

  RETAIN HIS DOMESTIC GARAGE AS CONSTRUCTED ON HIS SITE

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19822

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: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
• Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161

Recorded monuments

• KE011-043 Standing stone
  Description

  A small, stone which has a maximum height of .96m and a minimum height of .82m, it is a maximum of .93m wide and .51m thick. This stone is marked on the 1939 OS map as 'Standing stone'. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 14. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 1 August 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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

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

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

Name

Lacka East · An Leaca Thoir

Area

2,034,975 m² (203.5 ha, 502.85 acres)

Civil parish

Duagh, and its townlands

Barony

Iraghticonnor

Electoral division

Kilmeany, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilmeany electoral division: 752 people in 270 households; 90% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Duagh, Foildarrig, Knocknacaheragh, Pilgrimhill, Rea, Shronebeirne, Sluicequarter

Placenames

Lacka East 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.