Lackan Lower

137 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lackan Lower, from 118 m² to 126,805 m² (12.68 ha, 31.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 38 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Lackan Lower 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.

• 28 Jan 2026Conditional

  for (A) RETENTION of the existing multi-purpose room on the first floor. (B) PERMISSION to construct a new external fire escape stairs from the first floor and all associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2660032

• 1 Dec 2021Conditional

  to erect fully serviced part 2 storey, part single storey dwelling with detached domestic garage, entrance, sewerage treatment facilities & all ancillary works. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted.

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21727

• 1 Sept 2021Conditional

  to erect two storey extension to side of existing dwelling, alterations to elevations & all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21547

• 23 May 2018Conditional

  to alter site boundary and relocate domestic garage (previous plan. ref. 17/102) and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 18207

• 16 May 2018Conditional

  to erect fully serviced storey and a half dwelling with entrance, sewerage treatment facilities and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 18201

• 9 Jan 2018Refused

  to erect fully serviced storey and a half dwelling with entrance, sewerage treatment facilities and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 1816

• 22 Nov 2017N/a

  to erect fully serviced storey and a half dwelling with entrance, sewerage treatment facilities and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 17482

• 20 Sept 2017Conditional

  to construct cattle underpass/box culvert under existing road L2503 and all associated works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 17402

• 28 Jun 2017Conditional

  to construct a new two storey dwelling house with attached garage, install proprietary waste water treatment system and percolation area, new site entrance with gates and piers and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 17285

• 15 Mar 2017Conditional

  to erect fully serviced storey and a half type dwelling with detached domestic garage, entrance, sewerage treatment facilities and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 17102

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 Lackan Lower.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lackan Lower.

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch hump backed limestone road bridge, built c.1855, over former railway line. Random rubble stone spandrels and parapet having large dressed blocks to coping. Curved approach wing walls.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Lackan Lower

Area

1,367,973 m² (136.8 ha, 338.03 acres)

Civil parish

Ballintemple, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmahon

Electoral division

Drumcarban, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drumcarban electoral division: 636 people in 226 households; 93% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corduff, Corlismore, Drumbrade, Drumcarban, Drumcrow, Lackan Upper, Legaginny, Pottahee

Placenames

Lackan Lower 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.