Lackabaun

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lackabaun, from 265 m² to 153,530 m² (15.35 ha, 37.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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 Lackabaun 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.

• 12 Sept 2024Conditional

  for the installation of flood lights and associated works at GAA pitch

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 24267

• 18 Jul 2024N/a

  for the installation of flood lights and associated works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 24203

• 16 Mar 2017N/a

  for the construction of a dwelling house, garage, access road and private wastewater treatment system including all associated site works and services. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 453.3 sqm.)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17353

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 Lackabaun.

Recorded monuments

• GA116-074002 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In a hollow close to a stream. This holy well consists of a spring well which is defined by a small flat pile of stones (diam. 1.5m), in the center of which there is a modern pipe. According to local information, people used to tie ribbons to a hawthorn tree beside it. The well was used up to the early 1920s. A church (GA116-076----) lies c. 375m to the WSW. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 January 2019

• GA116-076 Church
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA116-077 Graveyard
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA116-079 Quarry
  Description

  A hachured feature marked on the 1920 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1983 to be a disused gravel pit defined by a shallow hollow. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 14 August 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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 Lackabaun, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Lackabaun · An Leaca Bhán

Area

742,169 m² (74.22 ha, 183.39 acres)

Civil parish

Duniry, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Tynagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

472 people lived in 169 households in the Tynagh electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonacastle, Duniry, Feagh, Moor, Reaghan, Spring Garden

Placenames

Lackabaun 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.