Lacknagreagh

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lacknagreagh, from 170 m² to 104,122 m² (10.41 ha, 25.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Lacknagreagh 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.

• 17 Oct 2025Conditional

  The development consists of permission for the refurbishment of an existing single storey cottage, the demolition of existing porch and the construction of a single storey extension to the rear and side, construction of new vehicular entrance southwards of the existing entrance, installation of new wastewater treatment system to replace existing septic tank, increase of plot size and formation of new native hedge boundary and all associated site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560658

• 18 Oct 2021Conditional

  outline planning permission for dwelling house, domestic garage, installation of a waste water treatment system/percolation area and all associated site development works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 211289

• 21 Dec 2020N/a

  Outline permission fro development that will consist of a dwelling house, domestic garage, installation of a wastewater treatment system/ percolation area and all associated site development works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 201156

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 Lacknagreagh.

Recorded monuments

• LH006-022 Souterrain
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Lintel of souterrain displaced during ploughing. Possibly a continuation of LH006-023----, in the adjacent part of townland of Carrickalust. Now inaccessible. (CLAJ 1931, 385)

• LH006-024 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Located on top of a gentle natural rise. Sub-circular raised platform (int. dims. 29.5m NE-SW, 26.5m N-S, H 0.8m-2m) enclosed at top by traces of much-degraded earth and stone bank, now completely reduced to a scarp. At W this scarp has been steepened to form part of a modern boundary. Probable ancient entrance gap (Wth 2m) at SE.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Lacknagreagh, 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 Lacknagreagh.

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 Lacknagreagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Lacknagreagh · Leac na gCruitheach

Area

333,503 m² (33.35 ha, 82.41 acres)

Civil parish

Barronstown, and its townlands

Barony

Dundalk Upper

Electoral division

Barronstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

752 people lived in 255 households in the Barronstown electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrickalust, Cunnicar, Drumsinnot, Maghereagh, Tattynaskeagh or Thornfield

Placenames

Lacknagreagh 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.