Lackan
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmeane, barony of Athlone North, Co. Roscommon; in Irish An Leacain
- Area
- 95.1 ha
- 235 acres
- Land parcels
- 55
- registered freehold, median 5,445 m² (0.54 ha, 1.35 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lackan, from 60 m² to 103,629 m² (10.36 ha, 25.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
29 May 2025Conditional
Planning Permission to construct a fisheries base, the proposed development will include, (a) A single-storey building with a combination of flat and pitched roofs, this building will contain offices, meeting rooms, a canteen, sanitary, changing facilities and ancillary areas along with storage facilities for boats and associated equipment, (b) New vehicular access, entrance walls, driveways, car parking areas, and storage yards, (c) Installation of a new mechanical aeration unit with a polishing filter system, a rainwater harvesting system, ground-mounted solar array, site lighting, security fencing, and general landscaping, along with all associated site works. The Planning Application is supported by the submission of a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560258
27 Aug 2024N/a
Planning Permission to construct a fisheries base, the proposed development will include (a) A single-storey building with a combination of flat and pitched roofs, this building will contain offices, meeting rooms, a canteen, sanitary changing facilities and ancillary areas along with storage facilities for boats and associated equipment, (b) New vehicular access, entrance walls, driveways, car parking areas and storage yards, (c) Installation of a new mechanical aeration unit with a polishing filter system, a rainwater harvesting system, ground-mounted solar array, site lighting, security fencing and general landscaping, along with all associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2460407
22 Aug 2024N/a
Planning Permission to construct a fisheries base, the proposed development will include, (a) A single-storey building with a combination of flat and pitched roofs, this building will contain offices, meeting rooms, a canteen, sanitary, changing facilities and ancillary areas along with storage facilities for boats and associated equipment, (b) New vehicular access, entrance walls, driveways, car parking areas, and storage yards, (c) Installation of a new mechanical aeration unit with a polishing filter system, a rainwater harvesting system, ground-mounted solar array, site lighting, security fencing, and general landscaping, along with all associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2460396
13 Oct 2022Refused
Permission for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, installation of tertiary treatment system and infiltration/treatment area, plus all ancillary works (A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been submitted with the application) at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22551
21 Sept 2022N/a
Permission for construction of dwelling house and domestic garage, installation of tertiary treatment system & infiltration / treatment area, plus all ancillary works, (The planning application includes a Natura Impact Statement (NIS)) at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 22506
9 Dec 2021N/a
PART 8 - Provision of Car and Boat Trailer Parking Area at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 21692
5 Oct 2018Conditional
Planning permission for development of a boat slipway and ancillary site works (The application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement (NIS)), at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 18508
27 Jun 2017Conditional
to retain dwelling house and domestic garage as constructed at
Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 17288
19 Jun 2017N/a
Permission to Retain dwelling house and domestic garage as constructed at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 17270
9 May 2017Refused
Permission Consequent on the grant of outline permission (Ref. No. PD/11/394 outline permission) to construct 2 No. dwelling houses, 2 No. waste water treatment systems and all associated site works at
Permission consequent, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 17208
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Ree SAC 000440
- Special Protection Area: Lough Ree SPA 004064
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Ree 000440
Recorded monuments
- RO042-168002 Ritual site - holy tree/bush
Description
On a gentle NE-facing slope down to Portrunny Bay on Lough Ree, and on the S side of a laneway. There is a rag-tree festooned with rags just opposite St Diamraid's Well (RO042-168001-). Portrunny church (RO042-044001-) is c. 110m to the W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lackan.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Lackan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Lackan · An Leacain
- Area
- 951,065 m² (95.11 ha, 235.01 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmeane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Athlone North
- Electoral division
- Kilteevan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilteevan electoral division: 553 people in 185 households; 90% of households own their home; 46% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cooltona, Cruit, Longnamuck, Portrunny
- 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.