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Lacken

Leacán

A surviving sale notice connects this Duncormick townland with coastal trade.

Recorded locationLacken52.21885° N · 6.66690° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

The name

A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.

Recorded forms

  • Leacán · Irish · main form · non-validated name
  • Lacken · English · main form

Place & story

Land, a pier and coal

A notice dated 17 August 1854 offered the late Edward Watson’s interest in lands at Lacken for sale. It described a holding of sixty-nine and a half acres, with a dwelling, outbuildings, a pier for unloading vessels and an adjoining coal yard. The advertisement claimed that coal and culm trading had continued there for twenty years. About twenty-four acres were under tillage. It also offered Watson’s premises in Duncormick, including the post office and a walled yard. These are the seller’s contemporary descriptions, rather than evidence of the eventual sale. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Wexford
Barony
Bargy
Civil parish
Duncormick
Coordinates
52.21885, -6.66690
Mapped area
0.78 km²
Logainm ID
53879 ↗

People & family history

Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Lacken. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Lands of Lacken sale notice, 17 August 1854; reproduced on page 31 of Jonas W. Watson: Ancestry and Descendants (1950) · Executors of Edward Watson; printed by Godwin, New Ross
  3. Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.