Lakingstown

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lakingstown, from 902 m² to 94,760 m² (9.48 ha, 23.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Lakingstown 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Lakingstown in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Royal Canal 002103

Recorded monuments

• WM010-032 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a slight natural rise surrounded by gently undulating grassland. A circular shaped area (approx. diam. 25m NW-SE) enclosed by a very poorly preserved earth and stone bank with possible entrance gap (Wth 3.1m) at S. An outer bank at E appears to be a later feature. A possible circular hut site (WM010-032001-) is visible in the W quadrant of the interior. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 9 June 2017

• WM010-032001 Hut site
  Description

  Situated on a slight natural rise surrounded by gently undulating grassland. A possible circular hut site (approx. diam. 8.6m N-S; 8.2m E-W; H 0.3m) is visible in the W quadrant of a ringfort (WM010-032---). Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 9 June 2017

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1805–1815 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch canal accommodation bridge carrying small road over Royal Canal, built c.1810. Constructed of dressed limestone having ashlar limestone detailing including projecting string course at parapet base level/road level and copping over parapets. Cut stone piers to ends of parapet walling. Located to the southwest of Ballynacarrigy.

• 36th Lock, lock, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Canal lock, built c.1810, consisting of pair of (restored) timber and steel breast gates with timber footboards, tail gates and balance beams. Set within ashlar limestone lock channel. Located adjacent to canal bridge (15401011) with associated lock keeper's house adjacent to the south (now extended and altered). Located to the southwest of Ballynacarrigy.

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.

Terrain model

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

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 Lakingstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Lakingstown · Baile na Leacan

Area

1,081,005 m² (108.1 ha, 267.12 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacnevan, and its townlands

Barony

Moygoish

Electoral division

Emper, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Emper electoral division: 217 people in 82 households; 84% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintue, Castlegaddery, Irishtown, Paddinstown Lower

Placenames

Lakingstown 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.