# Lacka Lower, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Killagholehane, barony of Glenquin, Co. Limerick; in Irish An Leaca Íochtarach.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 667,887 m² (66.79 ha, 165.04 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 36,712 m² (3.67 ha, 9.07 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Killagholehane, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/killagholehane.md
- Barony: Glenquin
- Electoral division: Boola, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/31686
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 121450
- Centre: latitude 52.326076, longitude -8.976345 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

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); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1652251: 232,701 m² (23.27 ha, 57.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1652251.md
- Parcel 1658333: 76,622 m² (7.66 ha, 18.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1658333.md
- Parcel 1614502: 71,427 m² (7.14 ha, 17.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1614502.md
- Parcel 1590035: 69,686 m² (6.97 ha, 17.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1590035.md
- Parcel 1616271: 51,859 m² (5.19 ha, 12.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1616271.md
- Parcel 1664155: 48,870 m² (4.89 ha, 12.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1664155.md
- Parcel 1652232: 24,555 m² (2.46 ha, 6.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1652232.md
- Parcel 1657616: 23,666 m² (2.37 ha, 5.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1657616.md
- Parcel 1658449: 22,511 m² (2.25 ha, 5.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1658449.md
- Parcel 1601896: 22,090 m² (2.21 ha, 5.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1601896.md
- Parcel 1653855: 20,306 m² (2.03 ha, 5.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1653855.md
- Parcel 1658408: 2,595 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1658408.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

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

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

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

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- LI054-033001: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI054-033001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI054-033002-. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/limerick/lacka-lower.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/lacka-lower.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/lacka-lower.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

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: https://everytownland.com/limerick.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Boola: https://everytownland.com/limerick/boola.md
- Knockglass: https://everytownland.com/limerick/knockglass.md
- Lacka Upper: https://everytownland.com/limerick/lacka-upper.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

- Page: https://everytownland.com/limerick/lacka-lower
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