Lackeen
Lackeen is a townland in the civil parish of Templenoe, barony of Dunkerron South, Co. Kerry. Its name in Irish is Leac Fhinn.
- Area
- 131.8 ha
- 326 acres
- Land parcels
- 14
- registered freehold, median 9,077 m² (0.91 ha, 2.24 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lackeen, from 2,146 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres) to 298,994 m² (29.9 ha, 73.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Lackeen 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
27 Oct 2020Conditional
(A) DEMOLISH EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND OUTBUILDING, (B) TO CONSTRUCT A NEW SINGLE STOREY REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WTIH DETACHED GARAGE, MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT, INTERMITTENT FILTER AND POLISHING FILTER INCLUDING ALL NECESSARY ANCILLARY SERVICES WORKS AND SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 201021
6 Sept 2017Conditional
RETAIN AS CONSTRUCTED WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES (A) DWELLING HOUSE (B)DETACHED GARAGE (C) SITE ENTRANCE AND DRIVEWAY (D) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS (E) PERMISSION TO DECOMMISSION THE EXISTING WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND REPLACE IT WITH A NEW MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT, INTERMITTENT FILTER AND POLISHING FILTER
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17885
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Kerry) SAC 002173
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lackeen.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lackeen.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Lackeen, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- 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 Lackeen.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Lackeen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Lackeen · Leac Fhinn
- Area
- 1,317,902 m² (131.79 ha, 325.66 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templenoe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dunkerron South
- Electoral division
- Dromore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 308 people lived in 120 households in the Dromore electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 18% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Capparoe, Coomnakilla South, Dromore, Dromore Old
- Placenames
- Lackeen 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.