Lacka

99 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lacka, from 422 m² to 499,812 m² (49.98 ha, 123.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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 Lacka 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 Jun 2025Conditional

  the construction of a new slatted cattle shed with underground slurry storage and straw bed area and associated concrete area

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560619

• 18 Jun 2025N/a

  construction of a new slatted cattle shed with under-ground slurry storage and straw bed area and associated concrete area

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560575

• 11 Jun 2025N/a

  construction of a new slatted cattle shed with under-ground slurry storage and straw bed area and associated concrete area

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560532

• 12 Jul 2023Conditional

  A.) renovation, alterations and extension to existing dwelling house; B.) Renovation of existing domestic shed/store; C.) Installation of septic tank/ETS and percolation area; D.) Installation of Bored well and associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 23195

• 16 May 2022Conditional

  new storage and wood chipping shed and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 22359

• 24 Jan 2022Conditional

  a slatted cattle house with underground slurry storage, ancillary concrete and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2254

• 12 Nov 2020Conditional

  a) entrance road and hardcore hardstand area associated with the process of wood chipping related to the felling of forestry, this development consists of the importation of timber logs onto the site and b) Permission for extension of hardstand area on the South West corner of the site and associated site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 201323

• 1 Aug 2019Conditional

  a grain store and associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19600851

• 7 Jul 2017Conditional

  construction of a new dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area, access roadway, new entrance, bored well along with all ancillary services and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 17600768

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 Lacka.

Recorded monuments

• TN008-040 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on natural rock outcrop in an upland area with extensive views in all directions. A circular area (diam. 21m N-S) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.7m) with no clear evidence of a fosse or entrance feature. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN008-041001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Situated on the W side of the Little Brosna River in an upland area. A rectangular area defined by a drystone wall (10m E-W x 12m N-S; H 0.4m), destroyed in places, in the centre of an enclosure (TN008-041002). Grass-covered wall-footings of a possible building (10m x 12m; H 0.5m) are located in the N sector of the large enclosure. No evidence of any uprights marking burials inside the rectangular walled area. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN008-041002 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  Situated on the W side of the Little Brosna River in an upland area. A large semicircular enclosure (diam. N-S 140m x 80m E-W) which runs into the river ravine. There is a children's burial ground (TN008-041001) in the interior defined by a drystone wall. Grass-covered wall-footings of a possible building (10m x 12m; H 0.5m) are located in the N sector of the enclosure. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN008-063 Enclosure - large enclosure
  Description

  In pasture. A large oval enclosure (dims. c. 100m N-S; c. 92m E-W) defined by a bank is visible on satellite imagery (© Google Earth, imagery date 1 March 2010), identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. The enclosure is roughly bisected by a public road running WNW-ESE immediately N of the centre of the monument. A field boundary runs NNE-SSW across the northern portion of the enclosure, through the NW quadrant. See attached images: TN008-063----_01 Google Earth image (1 March 2010) TN008-063----_02 DigitalGlobe image Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 21 April 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Lacka, 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 Lacka.

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

Name

Lacka · Leacach

Area

5,184,883 m² (518.49 ha, 1,281.21 acres)

Civil parish

Loughkeen, and its townlands

Barony

Ormond Lower

Electoral division

Clohaskin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

249 people lived in 89 households in the Clohaskin electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Arragh Beg, Ballaghgar, Ballinamoe (Co. Offaly), Ballymona, Clohaskin, Cloonaheen (Co. Offaly), Cronekill, Doughkill, Gurteen, Loughkeen, Skehanagh

Placenames

Lacka 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.