Lackan

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lackan, from 362 m² to 397,167 m² (39.72 ha, 98.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Lackan 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.

• 23 Oct 2025Conditional

  detached garage/store to the rear of existing dwelling and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2560245

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.

Recorded monuments

• LF014-107 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In low-lying pasture. A report in 1975 (SMR file) indicates that this raised circular area (diam. 28.4m) was enclosed by a wide, low bank of earth and stone, an external fosse and an outer bank. The original entrance may have been at E. It has since been levelled. However, the inner bank (Wth c. 9m; H 0.9m) and the outline of the fosse (Wth c. 5.5m) are still identifiable. There are no visible traces of the outer bank. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF014-108 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  On a hillock in low-lying pasture. Marked as a circular enclosure with the designation ‘Fort’ on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map and as an oval earthwork on the 1914 ed. A raised oval area (37.2m NW–SE; 21.4m NE–SW) is enclosed by a shallow inner fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.5m), a low inner bank of earth and stone (Wth 2.4m; H 0.25m), an outer fosse (Wth 3.4m; D 0.25m) and an outer bank (Wth 3.4m; H c. 0.2m); the outer face of the latter has been removed. The NE quadrant of the monument has been levelled. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 22 February 2012

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey vernacular house with attic storey, built c. 1800 and altered c. 1900, having single-bay windbreak porch to the centre of the front elevation (east). Now in disuse. Pitched corrugated-metal roof with two central rendered chimneystacks. Painted roughcast rendered walls over smooth render plinth course. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two timber sliding sash windows with painted limestone sills. Square-headed opening to windbreak having timber battened poor with glazed overlight. Located along the main Edgeworthstown to Longford Town road, to the west of Edgeworthstown. Building set slightly back from road and aligned at a right angle to the road alignment.

• House, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1870, on L-shape plan having two-bay two-storey return to rear (west). Modern single-bay single-storey extension to the rear (west) Hipped natural slate roof with three rendered chimneystacks having terracotta chimney pots over, two chimneystacks to the centre of the main body of building and one to return. Painted roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course and smooth rendered quoins to corners. Square-headed openings having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, limestone sills and rendered reveals. Central elliptical-headed opening to front elevation (east) having timber panelled double doors, sidelights and with spoked fanlight over. Set back from road in own grounds to the west of Edgeworthstown, adjacent to main Edgeworthstown to Longford Town road. Enclosed yard to the front of house (east) having rendered boundary walls with wrought-iron railings over. Pedestrian gateway to the east of house having cast-iron gate posts and a hooped wrought-iron gate. Complex of outbuildings on L-shaped plan to the rear (west) comprising a single-storey stable range to the south and an adjoining single-storey barn to the west. Pitched slate roof with brick eaves course to range to south, corrugated-metal roof to range to west having raised rendered verges. Coursed rubble limestone masonry walls. Square-headed window openings with red brick surrounds, timber fittings and limestone sills to range to south. Loop hole openings to range to south. Square-headed door openings to range to south with red brick surrounds and voussoirs, and with timber battened half-doors. Square-headed carriage arch to the building to the west having metal-sheeted doors, timber lintel and an elliptical-headed red brick relieving arch over. Modern farm buildings to the north side of outbuilding to the west, and to the northwest of house.

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 Lackan, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1818 (ZIP).

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 Lackan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Lackan · An Leacain

Area

1,794,361 m² (179.44 ha, 443.4 acres)

Civil parish

Mostrim, and its townlands

Barony

Ardagh

Electoral division

Meathas Truim, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,477 people lived in 844 households in the Meathas Truim electoral division. 46% of households owned their home. 59% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghanageeragh, Ballindagny and Cullyvore, Ballinree and Ballymoat, Ballynagoshen, Camlisk Beg, Camlisk More, Lisduff, Lisnanagh, Rathvaldron

Placenames

Lackan 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.