Lackan

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lackan, from 452 m² to 74,314 m² (7.43 ha, 18.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Lackan 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.

• 30 Sept 2026N/a

  construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, wwtu and polishing filter, bored well , new site entrance and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660700

• 12 Aug 2021Conditional

  construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system with polishing filter, new site entrance and all associated works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 21567

• 25 Sept 2020Conditional

  construct a new granny flat to my existing dwelling

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 20490

• 23 Sept 2020N/a

  construct a new granny flat to my existing dwelling

  Permission · Laois County Council, 20483

• 11 Dec 2019Conditional

  construct (a) a new granny flat extension to the side of existing dwelling with all ancillary site works and (b) retention of existing garage/fuel shed.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 19693

• 3 Dec 2019N/a

  (a) new granny flat extension to the side of existing dwelling with all ancillary site works and (b) retention of existing garage/flue shed

  Permission · Laois County Council, 19669

• 4 Jun 2019Conditional

  Two Storey Extension to house

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19316

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains SPA 004160

Recorded monuments

• LA003-027 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In poorly drained pasture, on S-facing slope. A spring well (dims. 0.95m x 0.95m; D 0.5m) enclosed by a stone well-house. The well house (ext. dims. 1.75m x 2.25m ; H 1m; wall T 0.43m) is surmounted by a cross with an inscription which reads 'Blessed by Rev. Father Maher C.C. AD 1891. Small rectangular sandstone trough (dims. 0.29m x 0.4m x 0.15m; T 0.07m) lying on the ground in front of the well. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Lackan, about 1 in 10 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 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 Lackan.

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.

No address of the register names Lackan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Lackan · An Leacain

Area

779,326 m² (77.93 ha, 192.58 acres)

Civil parish

Rosenallis, and its townlands

Barony

Tinnahinch

Electoral division

Meelick, the unit of the census

Census 2022

420 people lived in 139 households in the Meelick electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Capard, Corbally, Glenbarrow, Gorteen, Meelick

Placenames

Lackan 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.