Lacken, County Wicklow

Lacken (Irish: "An Leacain") is a small village in the west of County Wicklow in Ireland, located on the shores of the Blessington lakes. It is part of the parish of Valleymount.

A post office was opened in Lacken on September 4, 1951 as a sub-office to Blessington, [cite book | last = Frank | first = Harald | coauthors = Stange, Klaus | title = Irish Post Offices and their postmarks 1600-1990 | publisher = [http://fai-germany.de/engl/ Forchumgs- und Arbeitsgemeinschaft Irland e.V.] | date = 1990-09-29 | location = Munich | pages = p. 296 | url = http://fai-germany.de/engl/literatur_schriften.html ] but has since been closed.

In 2000, Lacken was twinned with the town of Segovia in Spain.fact|date=April 2008

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