Lacka West

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lacka West, from 183 m² to 362,841 m² (36.28 ha, 89.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 38 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 West 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.

• 21 Aug 2026N/a

  We, Circal Trienearagh Solar Limited, intend to apply for permission for development on lands in the townlands of Ballygarret, Gortanimerisk, Knockaderren, Knockavallig, Knockundervaul, Lacka West, Lisroe, Toor and Trienearagh, near Listowel, Co. Kerry (the Proposed Development) which comprises a renewable energy development as defined by The European Union (Planning and Development) (Renewable Energy) Regulations 2025. The Proposed Development comprises the following: I. Construction and operation of up to 576,850 sqm of solar PV arrays on ground-mounted metal frames, with a maximum overall height of up to 2.79 metres. II. Internal underground trenching, electrical cabling and ducting between the solar PV arrays and electrical invertor / transformer skid units. III. Up to 23 no. electrical inverter / transformer skid units. IV. Construction and operational access to the site by 16 no. site entrances using 14 no. existing field access points and 2 no. new access points. V. 7 no. temporary construction compounds and ancillary facilities for the duration of the construction phase of the project. VI. Construction of a 110kV / 33 kV transformer compound including an IPP Control Module of 33 sqm, a MV Switchgear Module of 33 sqm, all associated electrical plant and apparatus, 2 no c.18m lightning masts, lighting columns, fencing, parking, wastewater holding tank, rainwater harvesting unit, 33kV underground cabling, and a 110kV under the fence cable connection to the existing Trien 110 kV Substation. VII. 33 kV collector cable network, joint bays and associated works. VIII. Internal access tracks, site landscaping and drainage works, security fencing, CCTV and all associated ancillary site development works. IX. The decommissioning and reinstatement of the solar farm at the end of its operational life, including proposed transformer compound. The application seeks a 10-year permission with an operational lifetime of 40 years from the date of commissioning of the entire solar farm is being sought. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared in respect of the construction, operation and decommissioning of the Proposed Development and accompanies the planning application. Refer to enclosed statutory notices for full development description.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660792

• 25 Apr 2025Conditional

  Planning Permission to (i) Demolish existing open slurry pit and cubicles (ii) Construct a new slatted livestock house. Proposed slatted house to incorporate easy feed & associated underground slurry tank with external agitation & ancillary external concrete. The above to be carried out with all associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560344

• 13 Nov 2023Conditional

  RETAIN TWO NO AGRICULTURAL FARM ENTRANCES AND GATES

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 231103

• 26 Jul 2021Conditional

  DOMOLISH OLD CATTLE HOLDING SHED AND CONSTRUCT A SLATTED CUBICLE HOUSE IN IT'S PLACE COMPLETE WITH UNDERGROUND SLATTED SLURRY TANK, CUBILCES, FEED BARRIER AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 21867

• 18 Jan 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A SILAGE BASE WITH WALLS, APRONS AND EFFLUENT CHANNELS, MANURE PIT, AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2116

• 4 Mar 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT AN EASY FEED CUBICLE HOUSE WITH SCRAPERS AND A COLLECTION TANK ACROSS THE FRONT WITH FLOW CHANNELS TO AN EXISTING SLURRY LAGOON AND ASSOCIATED CONCRETE FARMYARD

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 19208

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 West.

Recorded monuments

• KE017-011 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Cahergal (site of) / Cathair Gheal (white stone fort). This large circular enclosure is marked on the 1841-42 OS map. A fieldbank running NW-SE cuts this site into two unequal parts. On the later map of 1915 it has been levelled and is now only dotted in. This site can now only be traced by the pattern of foliage on the land. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 825. 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 West.

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 high, moderately high, 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 West.

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

Name

Lacka West · An Leaca Thiar

Area

2,101,451 m² (210.15 ha, 519.28 acres)

Civil parish

Duagh, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmaurice

Electoral division

Trienearagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Trienearagh electoral division: 486 people in 169 households; 90% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Derrindaff, Lisroe, Toor, Trienearagh

Placenames

Lacka West 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.