Lacka
Townland in the civil parish of Offerlane, barony of Upperwoods, Co. Laois; in Irish Leacach
- Area
- 97.1 ha
- 240 acres
- Land parcels
- 40
- registered freehold, median 5,071 m² (0.51 ha, 1.25 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 16
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lacka, from 82 m² to 190,480 m² (19.05 ha, 47.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 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
12 Mar 2026N/a
Retain 2 No. Existing Agricultural Sheds and Stables and to include all Associated Ancillary Works
Retention · Laois County Council, 2660135
11 Mar 2026N/a
Retain 2 No. Existing Agricultural Sheds and Stables and to include all Associated Ancillary Works
Retention · Laois County Council, 2660132
24 Mar 2023Conditional
construct dwelling house, new site entrance, septic tank and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2399
21 Mar 2023N/a
construct dwelling house, new site entrance, septic tank and all associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 2392
24 Feb 2023N/a
construct dwelling house, new site entrance, septic tank and all associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 2362
13 Apr 2022Conditional
construct a new dwelling house, garage, septic tank and percolation area, new entrance, ancillary site services and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 22224
28 Oct 2021Refused
to construct dwelling house, new site entrance, septic tank and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21732
16 Aug 2021N/a
retain a hard standing area and all associated site works
Retention · Laois County Council, 21573
9 Mar 2020Conditional
construct a new dwelling house, packaged wastewater treatment system and polishing filter together with new site entrance, ancillary site services and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 20126
8 Oct 2019Conditional
construct a new forest road entrance and erect a new security barrier together with all ancillary site services and associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 19556
2 Oct 2019N/a
create a new forest road entrance together with all ancillary site services and associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 19547
31 Jul 2019Conditional
retain a church hall and toilet building together with all ancillary site services and associated site works, planning permission is also sought to provide a storage shed on the site together with site entrance and all ancillary site services and associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 19441
30 Jul 2019N/a
retain a church hall and toilet building together with all ancillary site services and associated site works, planning permission is also sought to provide a storage shed on the site together with site entrance and all ancillary site services and associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 19435
23 May 2019N/a
develop a new forest road entrance together with site entrance and all ancillary site services and associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 18654
22 Feb 2019Conditional
retain extension to rear of dwelling house and all associated and ancillary site works
Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19113
27 Mar 2017Conditional
construct a storey and a half dwelling house, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, new entrance and all associated and ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 16654
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: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
- Special Protection Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains SPA 004160
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Delour River Near Lacca Manor 000864
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lacka.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lacka.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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.
- 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 with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.
The townland
- Name
- Lacka · Leacach
- Area
- 970,802 m² (97.08 ha, 239.89 acres)
- Civil parish
- Offerlane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Upperwoods
- Electoral division
- Lacka, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Lacka electoral division: 309 people in 96 households; 96% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bughorn, Drimhill or Quarryfarm, Glennaglass, Killinure, Northgrove, Rossadown, Whitefield
- Placenames
- Lacka 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.