# Lackan, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Kilclonfert, barony of Philipstown Lower, Co. Offaly; in Irish An Leacain.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,064,879 m² (106.49 ha, 263.14 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 30,158 m² (3.02 ha, 7.45 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010
- Civil parish: Kilclonfert, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/kilclonfert.md
- Barony: Philipstown Lower
- Electoral division: Kilclonfert, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Kilclonfert electoral division: 448 people in 137 households; 93% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/42104
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180879
- Centre: latitude 53.329636, longitude -7.383806 (WGS 84)

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

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lackan, from 173 m² to 420,056 m² (42.01 ha, 103.8 acres); 9 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 2388026: 420,056 m² (42.01 ha, 103.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2388026.md
- Parcel 273699: 215,053 m² (21.51 ha, 53.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/273699.md
- Parcel 281686: 109,641 m² (10.96 ha, 27.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/281686.md
- Parcel 268841: 84,314 m² (8.43 ha, 20.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/268841.md
- Parcel 2388027: 78,345 m² (7.83 ha, 19.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2388027.md
- Parcel 293578: 52,884 m² (5.29 ha, 13.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/293578.md
- Parcel 5102329: 7,433 m² (0.74 ha, 1.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5102329.md
- Parcel 4222302: 3,448 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4222302.md
- Parcel 5102335: 2,477 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5102335.md
- Parcel 308048: 358 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/308048.md
- Parcel 5102316: 177 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5102316.md
- Parcel 5102317: 173 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5102317.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.

- 15 Jan 2021, Offaly County Council 218: Conditional. Permission. A 10 YEAR PLANNING PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF, AND A 40 YEAR OPERATION AND SUBSEQUENT DECOMMISSIONING OF, A DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF A 52.75 HECTARE SOLAR FARM AND BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM AND 9.32 KILOMETRE UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY GRID CONNECTION (0.95 HECTARES) GIVING A TOTAL COMBINED AREA FOR BOTH THE SOLAR FARM, BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM AND UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY GRID CONNECTION OF 53.7 HECTARES. THE PROPOSED SOLAR FARM AND BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM WILL CONSIST OF A SERIES OF GROUND MOUNTED SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC (PV) PANELS MOUNTED ON STEEL SUPPORT STRUCTURES, TOGETHER WITH A SINGLE STOREY ESB SUB-STATION BUILDING ON SITE, 18 NO. ELECTRICAL TRANSFORMATION ENCLOSURES, 68 NO. BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE UNITS, A TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION COMPOUND, UNDERGROUND CABLING, INVERTERS, CCTV POLES AND CAMERAS, DEER TYPE SECURITY FENCING, PALISADE FENCING, ACCESS TRACKS, LANDSCAPING AND BIODIVERSITY MEASURES AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT WORKS, FOR THE PURPOSE OF GENERATING RENEWABLE ENERGY ELECTRICITY AT THE TOWNLANDS OF DERRIES AND LACKAN. THE PROPOSED 9.32 KILOMETRE UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY GRID CONNECTION WILL CONSIST OF UNDERGROUND; 13 JOINT BAYS, 13 LINK BOXES AND 13 COMMUNICATIONS CHAMBERS. THE PROPOSED UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY GRID ROUTE PASSES UNDERNEATH THE WOOD OF O BRIDGE A PROTECTED STRUCTURE ON THE GRAND CANAL. THE PROPOSED SOLAR FARM IS LOCATED IN THE TOWNLANDS OF DERRIES AND LACKAN, CO. OFFALY. THE PROPOSED UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY GRID CONNECTION IS TO BE INSTALLED ENTIRELY UNDER PUBLIC ROADS FROM THE PROPOSED SOLAR FARM AT DERRIES AND LACKAN TOWNLANDS TO THORNSBERRY 110KV ESB SUBSTATION, WHICH PASSES THROUGH THE TOWNLANDS OF DERRIES, KILMURRY, DERRYGROGAN LITTLE, DERRYGROGAN BIG, WOOD OF O, CORNDARRAGH, DERRYNAGALL OR BALLYDALY, ARDAN AND PUTTAGHAN, CO. OFFALY. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) WILL BE SUBMITTED TO THE PLANNING AUTHORITY WITH THIS APPLICATION. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/218/0

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## 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)

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lackan.

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

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

- Radon: 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: Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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 Lackan.
- 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/offaly/lackan.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/lackan.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/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. Offaly: https://everytownland.com/offaly.md

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

- Cappagh: https://everytownland.com/offaly/cappagh-180300.md
- Cruit: https://everytownland.com/offaly/cruit.md
- Derries: https://everytownland.com/offaly/derries-180569.md
- Kilmurry: https://everytownland.com/offaly/kilmurry.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/offaly/lackan
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/lackan