# Lacka, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Templenoe, barony of Dunkerron South, Co. Kerry; in Irish An Leaca.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 3,104,065 m² (310.41 ha, 767.03 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,934 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Templenoe, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/templenoe.md
- Barony: Dunkerron South
- Electoral division: Greenane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 226 people lived in 89 households in the Greenane electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 42% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/23023
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 72021
- Centre: latitude 51.885987, longitude -9.649195 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lacka, from 129 m² to 2,041,737 m² (204.17 ha, 504.52 acres); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1181886: 2,041,737 m² (204.17 ha, 504.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1181886.md
- Parcel 1178476: 248,807 m² (24.88 ha, 61.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1178476.md
- Parcel 1227113: 213,544 m² (21.35 ha, 52.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1227113.md
- Parcel 1227365: 193,810 m² (19.38 ha, 47.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1227365.md
- Parcel 1221565: 142,019 m² (14.2 ha, 35.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1221565.md
- Parcel 1232671: 85,289 m² (8.53 ha, 21.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1232671.md
- Parcel 1229967: 77,447 m² (7.74 ha, 19.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1229967.md
- Parcel 1184080: 36,637 m² (3.66 ha, 9.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1184080.md
- Parcel 1148332: 13,899 m² (1.39 ha, 3.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1148332.md
- Parcel 4835176: 6,583 m² (0.66 ha, 1.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4835176.md
- Parcel 1241065: 5,732 m² (0.57 ha, 1.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1241065.md
- Parcel 1197156: 4,934 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1197156.md
- Parcel 1163154: 4,738 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1163154.md
- Parcel 4835165: 4,083 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4835165.md
- Parcel 4835127: 4,017 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4835127.md
- Parcel 1138408: 3,400 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1138408.md
- Parcel 1228511: 2,984 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1228511.md
- Parcel 1221262: 2,938 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1221262.md
- Parcel 1226628: 2,799 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1226628.md
- Parcel 5668941: 1,071 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5668941.md
- Parcel 1235161: 922 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1235161.md
- Parcel 5668953: 139 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5668953.md
- Parcel 5794735: 129 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5794735.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Lacka in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

3 applications, newest first.

- 30 Apr 2025, Kerry County Council 2560358: Conditional. Permission. Erecting of Garden Shed. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560358/0
- 13 Nov 2023, Kerry County Council 2360318: Conditional. Permission. Cignal Infrastructure Limited are applying for permission to install a 30m lattice type telecommunications support structure, carrying antenna and dishes together with associated ground equipment cabinets, fencing, access track and associated site works within Coillte Forestry at Lacka, Greenane, Co. Kerry. The installation will form part of Three Ireland Limited mobile telecommunications network.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360318/0
- 6 Aug 2020, Kerry County Council 20708: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. RETAIN THE EXTENSION AS CONSTRUCTED TO THEIR EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, TO RETAIN ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, RETAIN THE DOMESTIC GARAGE AS CONSTRUCTED, RETAIN THE TIMBER STORAGE SHED AS CONSTRUCTED AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/20708/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

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

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- KE092-025: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE092-025----. Internal diam. 32m N-S, 31m E-W This poorly preserved univallate rath is located in rough pasture on the lower S slopes of Letter South mountain, overlooking Kenmare Bay to S. Dense vegetation and trees prevented a detailed examination of the site. The earthen enclosing bank is 1m high both internally and externally, and its flat crest measures 2m wide. There is no clear evidence for an entrance. An opening to a stone-built souterrain (KE092-025001-) is reputed to be located in the bank at E, but this is now closed up (local information). A number of large boulders are incorporated in the bank at this point. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 529. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013
- KE092-025001: Souterrain, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE092-025001-. An opening to a stone-built souterrain (KE092-025001-) is reputed to be located in the bank at E, but this is now closed up (local information). A number of large boulders are incorporated in the bank at this point. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 529. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Lacka, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lacka.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/kerry/lacka.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/lacka.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/lacka.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Lacka with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry: https://everytownland.com/kerry.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Dromcunnia: https://everytownland.com/kerry/dromcunnia.md
- Letter: https://everytownland.com/kerry/letter-72091.md
- Reen: https://everytownland.com/kerry/reen-72416.md
- Rossacoosane: https://everytownland.com/kerry/rossacoosane.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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