Lackan

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lackan, from 13 m² to 260,779 m² (26.08 ha, 64.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 37 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

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.

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

• 14 Jul 2026Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661187

• 14 Dec 2022Conditional

  (a) changes to house design which was previously granted under planning reference no. 01/2102 (b) planning permission to retain and complete the dwelling house on revised site boundaries to include new wastewater treatment unit, percolation area & all associated site services. Gross floor space of work to be retained 66.80sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261241

• 7 Nov 2022Conditional

  (a) retain existing dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area previously granted under planning ref. no. 03/3422 on revised site boundaries (b) retention permission for the construction of a domestic garage (C) and all associated site services.Gross floor space of work to be retained 210sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261122

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA 004168

Recorded monuments

• GA125-090 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a N-facing slope in grassland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m); partially levelled by the time of the 1920 edition. All that survives is a curving tree-lined scarp from W to N. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 10 April 2019

• GA125-091001 Burial ground
  Description

  On the summit of a hillock in pastureland. A poorly preserved subcircular graveyard (38m N-S; 28m E-W) defined by a drystone wall (H 1m). Access is via a gateway at WSW. The interior rises towards the centre and is uneven underfoot as a result the grass cover overgrowing the graveslabs. The only visible grave-marker is a polished marble headstone dated 1915. The circular nature of the enclosing wall is suggestive of an early date. St Feighin's holy well (GA126-038001-) lies c. 30m to the NE. Mass is celebrated annually here in July. In 2017 a set of outdoor Stations of the Cross were erected around the perimeter of the site (Hoctor 2017, 17). Update by: Olive Alcock Date of revised upload: 30 October 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Lackan, about 1 in 20 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 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 Lackan.

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 Lackan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Lackan · An Leacain

Area

1,529,426 m² (152.94 ha, 377.93 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynakill (Loughrea Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Abbeyville, the unit of the census

Census 2022

274 people lived in 102 households in the Abbeyville electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Abbeyville, Ballygowan, Coolfin, Derryvunlam, Easterfield, Wellpark

Placenames

Lackan 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.