Lackalea

76 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lackalea, from 42 m² to 368,606 m² (36.86 ha, 91.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Lackalea 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.

• 16 Oct 2025Refused

  for alterations and extension to existing dwelling house, replacement of existing septic tank with new wastewater treatment system, new percolation area and associated site work

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561514

• 10 Jul 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 205.58 sqm (house) & 58 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460855

• 25 Mar 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 218 sqm (house) & 58 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460327

• 10 Dec 2023Conditional

  for the construction of a Dwelling House, Domestic Garage, Treatment Unit, Percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 204.50 sqm (house) & 58 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361478

• 6 Apr 2023Conditional

  for (a) the demolition of a domestic garage attached to existing dwelling house (b) construction of an extension to side and rear of existing dwelling house (c) installation of new septic tank and percolation area (d) construction of a garden shed (e) construction of a porch to front of dwelling (f) minor changes to elevations of the dwelling (g) all associated site services (h) and retain all works on revised site boundaries

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360351

• 4 Feb 2022Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house and garage with treatment plant and percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works: 251.1 sqm + 52.2 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22120

• 4 Feb 2022Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house and garage with treatment plant and percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works: 264.2 sqm + 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22121

• 3 Oct 2019Conditional

  for the construction of a new sheep shed along with all associated ancillary concrete on lands. Gross floor space of proposed works: 256.32 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 191545

• 18 Jul 2019Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, detached garage, treatment plant and percolation area and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: Dwelling - 257 sqm, Garage - 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191108

• 26 May 2017Conditional

  for the construction of: a) a single storey extension to the rear, b) a domestic garage to the side with connecting roof to main dwelling and c) minor elevational changes to the north of previously granted dwelling house (pl. ref. no. 16/541 and all associated site development works. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 102 sqm.)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17756

• 12 Jan 2017Conditional

  for the demolition of existing sub-standard dwelling and for the construction of a new Dwelling House, Domestic garage with fuel store, Treatment Unit, Percolation area, site entrance and all associated site services. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 202 sqm. House, 65.6 sqm Garage.)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 1713

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 Lackalea.

Recorded monuments

• GA097-130 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On a rise in rolling pastureland. This children's burial ground consists of an unenclosed oval area (L 11m; Wth 9.3m) within which a number of randomly placed set stones mark graves. A thorn bush is growing in it and a number of field-clearance boulders are scattered within it. (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 474) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 2 September 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 Lackalea, 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 Lackalea.

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

Name

Lackalea · Na Leaca Liatha

Area

2,936,453 m² (293.65 ha, 725.61 acres)

Civil parish

Kilconickny, and its townlands

Barony

Loughrea

Electoral division

Lackalea, the unit of the census

Census 2022

425 people lived in 119 households in the Lackalea electoral division. 97% of households owned their home. 56% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygasty, Ballykeeran, Bushfield, Cahernamuck East, Coorbaun, Curraghs, Graigue, Kanargad, Lackafinna South

Placenames

Lackalea 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.