Lacka Lower

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lacka Lower, from 2,595 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres) to 232,701 m² (23.27 ha, 57.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Lacka Lower 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Lacka Lower in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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

Designated sites

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

Recorded monuments

• LI054-033001 Church
  Description

  National monument No. 86. In centre of graveyard (LI054-03302-). Roofless ruin of Killagholehane parish church (Westropp 1904-05, 405-6) consisting of gabled rectangular (int.: 14.15m E-W; 7.6m N-S) church with transept-like projections to N (int.: 4.55m E-W; 4.35m N-S) and S (int.: 3.85m E-W); latter almost completely ruined. Built of uncoursed sandstone rubble. Structure has recently been repaired in places by OPW. Church entered through doorway in centre of W wall. Present doorway is an insertion into an earlier ope; round-arched limestone door surround, set slightly back from outer wall face. Inserted into outer wall face, just S of door, is limestone stoup with circular bowl (diam. 0.32m; D 0.14m). Directly above doorway is window with single ogee-headed light. On inside wall face, flanking doorway, are two limestone corbels which supported loft at W end of church. Most of E wall occupied by three tall windows; embrasure of same size except central one has slightly higher pointed arch, whereas sides have more rounded arches (see photo Spellissy 1989, 161). No dressed stone on lights which are simple slit openings. Inserted into the central embrasure is a double ogee-headed light of limestone. In centre of N wall is simple slit window, and there is a pair of similar windows E-of-centre in S wall. Slightly W-of-centre in S wall is doorway into projection; only base of doorway survives, which has chamfered limestone jambs. Transept lit by single slit window in S wall; much-ruined ope in E wall may have been door. Projection on N wall set further to W and now almost completely ruined; only lower half of doorway survives with chamfered limestone jambs on door surround; both doors into projections were closed from inside church. Interior of church contains a number of recent burial plots, otherwise covered in low grass. Immediately below E windows is altar (2.4m E-W; 0.8m N-S; H 0.66m) built of plain sandstone masonry except top inner edge which plain dressed limestone. Set into base of central E window is part of broken limestone font (0.4m x 0.4m x 0.3m), with plain rounded band just below rim. Built into E end of S wall is tomb niche with limestone surround rising full height of side wall; opening (Wth 2.2m; D 0.3m) covered by moulded round arch, above which is ogee-arch, with similar moulding, topped by finial; this is framed by two pilasters topped with pinnacles (that to W missing); this is probably 15th century in date (see Leask 1960, vol. 3, 167-74). Core of church and projections are of one build; church was burnt in 1302 (Westropp ibid.) but form of windows in E gable is early 13th century. Refitted in 15th century with insertion of tomb niche, W doorway and ogee-headed windows, and all other limestone details. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI054-033002 Graveyard
  Description

  Square graveyard (L c. 40m) enclosed by earthen bank, with stream immediately outside bank on N and E sides, with modern entrance gate on S side. Gate approached by path from avenue to S. In occasional use and maintained; just NE of centre roofless ruin of medieval parish church of Killagholehane (LI054-033001-). Single chest tomb dated to mid-19th century; earliest headstones noted late-19th century. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Lacka Lower, 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 Lower.

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 Lacka Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Lacka Lower · An Leaca Íochtarach

Area

667,887 m² (66.79 ha, 165.04 acres)

Civil parish

Killagholehane, and its townlands

Barony

Glenquin

Electoral division

Boola, the unit of the census

Census 2022

142 people lived in 49 households in the Boola electoral division. 96% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boola, Knockglass, Lacka Upper

Placenames

Lacka Lower 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.