Lackmelch

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lackmelch, from 2,121 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres) to 107,368 m² (10.74 ha, 26.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 23 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 25 Mar 2021Conditional

  permission for a new front garden wall and permission for retention of a front entrance porch and the reconfiguration of existing windows

  Permission · Meath County Council, 21555

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 Lackmelch.

Recorded monuments

• ME016-064 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a low W-E spur. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 57m N-S; c. 52m E-W) defined by a single fosse (Wth c. 3-6m) is visible on Google Earth (18/06/2017; 02/07/2018). It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillère. See the attached enhanced aerial view from Google Earth Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 11 March 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lackmelch.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Lackmelch with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Lackmelch

Area

250,947 m² (25.09 ha, 62.01 acres)

Civil parish

Kells, and its townlands

Barony

Kells Upper

Electoral division

Ceanannas Mór Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ceanannas M�r Rural electoral division: 4,980 people in 1,700 households; 75% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barfordstown, Calliaghstown, Rockfield, Townparks

Placenames

Lackmelch 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.