Lack

99 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lack, from 183 m² to 97,133 m² (9.71 ha, 24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 44 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 Lack 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 Jul 2026N/a

  Retention Permission for the retention of palisade/security mesh fencing to entrance, two number dry bed sheep sheds and small store/office, a sheep dipping tank, pens/crush area and hard standing surface and all associated site works at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2660381

• 7 Jul 2026N/a

  Retention permission for the retention of palisade/security mesh fencing, two steel structures/sheds, a concrete block structure, a crush/pen, an associated underground tank, hardstanding surface and all associated site works at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2660334

• 17 Aug 2022Conditional

  Retention Permission for: (1) Retention of existing site boundaries servicing existing cottage type dwelling house; (2) Retention of an existing cottage type dwelling house with attic conversion as currently constructed; Permission for: (3) Proposed upgrade of an existing on site sewerage system with polishing in accordance with EPA Code of Practice 2021 "Wastewater Treatment and Disposal Systems Servicing Single Houses (P.E. less than or equal to 10) and all ancillary site works at

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22440

• 25 Jul 2022N/a

  (1) Retention of existing site boundaries servicing existing cottage type dwelling house. (2) Retention of an existing cottage type dwelling house with attic conversion as currently constructed. (3) Proposed upgrade of an existing on site sewerage system with polishing in accordance with EPA Code of Practice 2021 "Wastewater Treatment and Disposal Systems Servicing Single Houses (P.E. less than or equal to 10) and all ancillary site works at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 22389

• 22 Jun 2022Conditional

  Permission for: (a) The demolition of an existing derelict shed and holding pens; (b) The construction of a dwelling house, the installation of a sewerage treatment unit and percolation area, along with connections to all site services and all other associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22310

• 29 Apr 2022N/a

  Retention Permission for existing cottage type dwelling house with attic conversion as currently constructed and all ancillary site works at

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22205

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: Lough Forbes Complex SAC 001818
• Special Protection Area: Ballykenny-Fisherstown Bog SPA 004101
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Forbes Complex 001818

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lack.

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1635 (ZIP).

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 Lack with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Lack

Area

1,745,967 m² (174.6 ha, 431.44 acres)

Civil parish

Termonbarry, and its townlands

Barony

Ballintober North

Electoral division

Termonbarry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Termonbarry electoral division: 972 people in 360 households; 68% of households own their home; 69% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballytoohey, Corramagrine, Kilbarry, Newtown

Placenames

Lack 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.