Lackan

56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lackan, from 287 m² to 146,213 m² (14.62 ha, 36.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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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.

• 21 Apr 2021Conditional

  Permission for alteration to design of existing granted dwelling, planning ref. no. 171 (The construction of a storey and a half, four bedroom dwelling, domestic garage, a new foul water treatment system, well, new site entrance and all associated site works). The alterations proposed are as follows, an increase in floor area of 32.5m2 with some minor internal changes, the removal of a window ope from the north & south elevations, the introduction of a new window ope to the east & west elevations and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 21136

• 25 Jun 2018Conditional

  Retention of an existing development at this site Lacken Td, Old Leighlin, Co. Carlow. The development consists of an existing 25 metre high telecommunications support structure (total height including antennas 27.6 metres) carrying telecommunications equipment, together with existing equipment container and associated equipment within a fenced compound as previously granted under local authority reference 12/81. The development will continue to form part of meteor Mobile Communications Ltd. existing and future telecommunications and broadband network.

  Retention · Carlow County Council, 18243

• 6 Jan 2017Conditional

  the construction of a storey and a half, four bedroom dwelling, domestic garage, a new foul water treatment system, well, new site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 171

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

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lackan.

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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. Carlow.

Name

Lackan · An Leacain

Area

1,648,840 m² (164.88 ha, 407.44 acres)

Civil parish

Oldleighlin, and its townlands

Barony

Idrone West

Electoral division

Oldleighlin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

606 people lived in 199 households in the Oldleighlin electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagar, Bannagagole, Baunreagh, Clonmore, Feamore, Moanmore, Shankill (Co. Kilkenny), Tomnasock

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.