# Lackan, Co. Longford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Mostrim, barony of Ardagh, Co. Longford; in Irish An Leacain. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,794,361 m² (179.44 ha, 443.4 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 10,880 m² (1.09 ha, 2.69 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Mostrim, https://everytownland.com/longford/parish/mostrim.md - Barony: Ardagh - Electoral division: Meathas Truim, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 2,477 people lived in 844 households in the Meathas Truim electoral division. 46% of households owned their home. 59% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Longford, https://everytownland.com/longford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/32974 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 130649 - Centre: latitude 53.699886, longitude -7.648935 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lackan, from 362 m² to 397,167 m² (39.72 ha, 98.14 acres); 24 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 60413: 397,167 m² (39.72 ha, 98.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/60413.md - Parcel 52387: 344,275 m² (34.43 ha, 85.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/52387.md - Parcel 73486: 162,587 m² (16.26 ha, 40.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/73486.md - Parcel 74294: 131,246 m² (13.12 ha, 32.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/74294.md - Parcel 60534: 119,617 m² (11.96 ha, 29.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/60534.md - Parcel 74221: 102,131 m² (10.21 ha, 25.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/74221.md - Parcel 74291: 82,918 m² (8.29 ha, 20.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/74291.md - Parcel 60410: 67,161 m² (6.72 ha, 16.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/60410.md - Parcel 58093: 61,602 m² (6.16 ha, 15.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/58093.md - Parcel 74297: 60,804 m² (6.08 ha, 15.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/74297.md - Parcel 79670: 55,062 m² (5.51 ha, 13.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/79670.md - Parcel 74298: 40,594 m² (4.06 ha, 10.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/74298.md - Parcel 60409: 28,330 m² (2.83 ha, 7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/60409.md - Parcel 71446: 19,070 m² (1.91 ha, 4.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/71446.md - Parcel 56021: 14,227 m² (1.42 ha, 3.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/56021.md - Parcel 65855: 13,685 m² (1.37 ha, 3.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/65855.md - Parcel 63960: 8,075 m² (0.81 ha, 2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/63960.md - Parcel 81966: 6,072 m² (0.61 ha, 1.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/81966.md - Parcel 56274: 5,265 m² (0.53 ha, 1.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/56274.md - Parcel 80338: 4,314 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/80338.md - Parcel 78591: 4,271 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/78591.md - Parcel 81486: 4,270 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/81486.md - Parcel 80449: 4,246 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/80449.md - Parcel 5109337: 4,205 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5109337.md - Parcel 2473797: 3,919 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2473797.md - Parcel 80870: 3,516 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/80870.md - Parcel 81775: 3,215 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/81775.md - Parcel 54687: 2,519 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/54687.md - Parcel 83037: 1,697 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/83037.md - Parcel 83038: 1,299 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/83038.md - Parcel 77581: 1,201 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/77581.md - Parcel 55902: 362 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/55902.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 23 Oct 2025, Longford County Council 2560245: Conditional. Permission. detached garage/store to the rear of existing dwelling and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560245/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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 Lackan. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LF014-107: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF014-107----. In low-lying pasture. A report in 1975 (SMR file) indicates that this raised circular area (diam. 28.4m) was enclosed by a wide, low bank of earth and stone, an external fosse and an outer bank. The original entrance may have been at E. It has since been levelled. However, the inner bank (Wth c. 9m; H 0.9m) and the outline of the fosse (Wth c. 5.5m) are still identifiable. There are no visible traces of the outer bank. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011 - LF014-108: Barrow - ring-barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF014-108----. On a hillock in low-lying pasture. Marked as a circular enclosure with the designation ‘Fort’ on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map and as an oval earthwork on the 1914 ed. A raised oval area (37.2m NW–SE; 21.4m NE–SW) is enclosed by a shallow inner fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.5m), a low inner bank of earth and stone (Wth 2.4m; H 0.25m), an outer fosse (Wth 3.4m; D 0.25m) and an outer bank (Wth 3.4m; H c. 0.2m); the outer face of the latter has been removed. The NE quadrant of the monument has been levelled. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 22 February 2012 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) - House, 1780–1820, Regional interest, registry number 13401446, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LF®no=13401446. Detached five-bay single-storey vernacular house with attic storey, built c. 1800 and altered c. 1900, having single-bay windbreak porch to the centre of the front elevation (east). Now in disuse. Pitched corrugated-metal roof with two central rendered chimneystacks. Painted roughcast rendered walls over smooth render plinth course. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two timber sliding sash windows with painted limestone sills. Square-headed opening to windbreak having timber battened poor with glazed overlight. Located along the main Edgeworthstown to Longford Town road, to the west of Edgeworthstown. Building set slightly back from road and aligned at a right angle to the road alignment. - House, 1850–1890, Regional interest, registry number 13401447, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LF®no=13401447. Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1870, on L-shape plan having two-bay two-storey return to rear (west). Modern single-bay single-storey extension to the rear (west) Hipped natural slate roof with three rendered chimneystacks having terracotta chimney pots over, two chimneystacks to the centre of the main body of building and one to return. Painted roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course and smooth rendered quoins to corners. Square-headed openings having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, limestone sills and rendered reveals. Central elliptical-headed opening to front elevation (east) having timber panelled double doors, sidelights and with spoked fanlight over. Set back from road in own grounds to the west of Edgeworthstown, adjacent to main Edgeworthstown to Longford Town road. Enclosed yard to the front of house (east) having rendered boundary walls with wrought-iron railings over. Pedestrian gateway to the east of house having cast-iron gate posts and a hooped wrought-iron gate. Complex of outbuildings on L-shaped plan to the rear (west) comprising a single-storey stable range to the south and an adjoining single-storey barn to the west. Pitched slate roof with brick eaves course to range to south, corrugated-metal roof to range to west having raised rendered verges. Coursed rubble limestone masonry walls. Square-headed window openings with red brick surrounds, timber fittings and limestone sills to range to south. Loop hole openings to range to south. Square-headed door openings to range to south with red brick surrounds and voussoirs, and with timber battened half-doors. Square-headed carriage arch to the building to the west having metal-sheeted doors, timber lintel and an elliptical-headed red brick relieving arch over. Modern farm buildings to the north side of outbuilding to the west, and to the northwest of house. ## 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 Lackan, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1818, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1818.zip (ZIP). - 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/longford/lackan.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/longford/lackan.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/longford/lackan.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Lackan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford: https://everytownland.com/longford.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Aghanageeragh: https://everytownland.com/longford/aghanageeragh.md - Ballindagny and Cullyvore: https://everytownland.com/longford/ballindagny-and-cullyvore.md - Ballinree and Ballymoat: https://everytownland.com/longford/ballinree-and-ballymoat.md - Ballynagoshen: https://everytownland.com/longford/ballynagoshen.md - Camlisk Beg: https://everytownland.com/longford/camlisk-beg.md - Camlisk More: https://everytownland.com/longford/camlisk-more.md - Lisduff: https://everytownland.com/longford/lisduff-130682.md - Lisnanagh: https://everytownland.com/longford/lisnanagh.md - Rathvaldron: https://everytownland.com/longford/rathvaldron.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. --- 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/longford/lackan - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/longford/lackan