Lacken

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lacken, from 1,769 m² to 333,199 m² (33.32 ha, 82.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Lacken 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.

• 9 Apr 2021Conditional

  the extension of a permitted solar photovoltaic panel array (PI Ref. 16/600642). The proposed development comprises the provision of up to 30,000 m2 of solar panels on ground mounted steel frames, a 20kv substation (55sq.m), inverter and transformer units, underground cable ducts, boundary fencing, CCTV and all associated site services and works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 21473

• 29 Jul 2020Conditional

  erection of a single storey dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area, all associated site works and to use existing vehicular entrance from public road

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 20836

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Suir SAC 002137

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lacken.

Architectural heritage

• Lacken House, house, 1750–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house over half-basement, built c.1770, now derelict. Hipped slate roof with rendered central chimneystacks and overhanging eaves. Painted roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings, having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor of front and rear elevations, boarded to ground and basement, all with stone sills. Window opening to ground floor of south end wall has raised render surround with keystone. Elliptical-headed door opening with carved panelled timber surround, with lozenge detail below arching, and square-headed sidelights with stone sills, all openings boarded up, accessed by flight of rendered rubble stone steps. Yard to rear with rendered rubble limestone walls, entered through elliptical archway with dressed limestone voussoirs and roughly dressed jambs and internal piers. Multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to yard has pitched slate roof, rubble limestone walls, square-headed openings and carriage entrances with render voussoirs and timber fittings. Ruinous outbuildings to north of site. Quadrant entrance gateway comprises rendered walls and dressed limestone piers with caps and decorative wrought-iron double-leaf gates.

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

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, low (inferred).

Terrain model

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

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 Lacken with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Lacken · An Leacain

Area

442,697 m² (44.27 ha, 109.39 acres)

Civil parish

Neddans, and its townlands

Barony

Iffa and Offa West

Electoral division

Ardfinnan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,178 people lived in 453 households in the Ardfinnan electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Killaidamee, Knockroe, Lisheenanoul, Monroe East, Neddans (Farran)

Placenames

Lacken 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.