Lackabaun

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lackabaun, from 225 m² to 211,659 m² (21.17 ha, 52.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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.

• 24 Feb 2025Conditional

  for installation of a single storey prefabricated building to accommodate a classroom and special education tuition classroom, connect into existing sewerage treatment system and all associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 100.00 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2560192

• 11 May 2021Conditional

  to include [a] Alterations to existing entrance arrangement with defined entry and exit points on to the existing R380 [b] Removal of existing carparking spaces at the front of the school [c] New carpark Internal on school grounds [d] Playground / Play area [E] Multi use Astro turf playing pitch [F] Relocation of existing grassed playing pitch [G] Walking track around perimeter of school grounds [h] All associated site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21788

• 6 Jan 2021Conditional

  to [1] Demolish existing rear extension to existing 2 storey dwelling house [2] Renovate existing house and erect new 2 storey extension to rear [3] Replace existing septic with new wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works and services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 249 msq.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 218

• 5 Sept 2019Conditional

  for Prefabricated structure used for preschool and afterschool purposes on school grounds and all associated site development works. Gross floor space of work to be retained: Prefab - 74.6 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 191385

• 13 Apr 2017Conditional

  for change of prefabricated building providing preschool and afterschool facilities approved under planning reference no. 12/829 to permanent structure with revised building layout, connection to all essential services and all associated site development works on grounds of Kilchreest N.S.. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 96.1 sqm.)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17496

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

• GA105-143 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a steep N-facing slope. Circular rath (diam. 34.4m), in fair condition, defined by an inner bank with traces of an intervening fosse and outer bank from S to W. Two berms are visible downslope of the inner bank, the upper one from N to E and the lower one in the N sector. The monument is covered with trees. (McCaffrey 1952, 259, no. 29) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 11 January 2018

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 moderately high, moderately low, low.

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

1,036,193 m² (103.62 ha, 256.05 acres)

Civil parish

Kilchreest, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Kilchreest, the unit of the census

Census 2022

307 people lived in 111 households in the Kilchreest electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 16% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycuddy, Ballygunneen, Deerpark, Eskershanore, Kilnagappagh, Lahardaun

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.