Lacka West
Townland in the civil parish of Lisselton, barony of Iraghticonnor, Co. Kerry; in Irish An Leaca Thiar
- Area
- 69.9 ha
- 173 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 5,500 m² (0.55 ha, 1.36 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lacka West, from 178 m² to 228,525 m² (22.85 ha, 56.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
29 Apr 2025Conditional
Full planning permission to, A) demolish existing rear extension, B) construct a new rear extension onto the existing dwelling house, C) elevation changes and internal alterations, D) permission to decommission the existing septic tank and install a new effluent treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works.
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560353
29 Apr 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED GARAGE, INSTALL A MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22448
1 Nov 2021Conditional
DEMOLISH THE EXISTING SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE AND ANCILLARY FARM STORE AND TO DECOMMISSION THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND TO CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH ANCILLARY FARM BUILDING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND PERMISSION TO INSTALL A NEW SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211238
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 Lacka West.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lacka West.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
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.
The townland
- Name
- Lacka West · An Leaca Thiar
- Area
- 698,787 m² (69.88 ha, 172.67 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lisselton, and its townlands
- Barony
- Iraghticonnor
- Electoral division
- Urlee, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Urlee electoral division: 376 people in 148 households; 86% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynoneen, Barraduff, Lacka East, Moybella North, Urlee
- 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.