Lacka Beg
Lacka Beg is a townland in the civil parish of Doon, barony of Coonagh, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is An Leaca Bheag.
- Area
- 102.5 ha
- 253 acres
- Land parcels
- 26
- registered freehold, median 4,516 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lacka Beg, from 498 m² to 478,017 m² (47.8 ha, 118.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Lacka Beg 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
10 Apr 2026Conditional
the demolition of an existing semi detached dwelling and for the construction of a new separate dwelling, wastewater treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660416
30 Jul 2025Conditional
amendments to previously approved planning permission Ref. No. 24/60062 to include the following: - amendments to the internal layout of dwelling including reduction and reconfiguration of proposed side and rear extensions. - amendments to elevations and façade finishes. - provision of a new detached domestic garage along with all ancillary siteworks
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560748
29 Jan 2024Conditional
the (a) Demolition of rear extension to existing cottage and adjacent outbuilding and decommission existing septic tank, (b) Refurbishment of existing cottage, construct new side and rear extensions together with internal alterations and elevational changes, install new waste water treatment and polishing filter system and all associated site work
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460062
18 Dec 2020Conditional
demolition of existing semi detached dwelling and the construction of a new separate dwelling and wastewater treatment system and associated works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 201387
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: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
- Special Protection Area: Slievefelim to Silvermines Mountains SPA 004165
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Bilboa And Gortnageragh River Valleys 001851
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lacka Beg.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lacka Beg.
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 Lacka Beg, 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 Lacka Beg.
- 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 Lacka Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Lacka Beg · An Leaca Bheag
- Area
- 1,024,961 m² (102.5 ha, 253.27 acres)
- Civil parish
- Doon, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coonagh
- Electoral division
- Bilboa, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 417 people lived in 148 households in the Bilboa electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Curraghlahan, Kylegarve, Lacka More, Lackanagoneeny, Reenavanna West, Shanacloon
- Placenames
- Lacka Beg 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.