Lakyle North

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lakyle North, from 143 m² to 179,906 m² (17.99 ha, 44.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Lakyle North 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.

• 31 Mar 2023Conditional

  for development in the townlands of Ballyartney, Ballygeery East, Ballygeery West, Cloonkerry West, Cullenagh, KilKerin, Killofin, Knockphutteen and Lakyle North, Co Clare. The proposed development will include; (1) An extension of the existing Kilkerin Point 220 kV Line Cable Interface Mast (LCIM) compound, to facilitate new electrical equipment for the connection of two new 220 kV cable circuits, including: (a) A new control cabin (approximately 13.4sqm floor area by 3.5m high, which includes 0.85m ground clearance) and 2 no. parking spaces; (b) Associated 220 kV electrical equipment including, cable sealing ends, insulators, overhead conductors, surge arrestors and lightning masts measuring 15m high (tallest compound structure); (c) 220 kV underground cabling from the associated underground transition pits to the cable sealing end equipment; palisade fencing (approximately 2.6m in height, up to 3.5m in height, including anti-climb device) and gates; and associated landscaping. The development will also comprise; (2) A new fibre optic cable measuring an approximate length of 8.9km routed between Kilkerin Point LCIM compound (townland of Lakyle North) and Prospect 220 kV substation (townland of Ballygeery West); (3) Decommissioning of existing 220 kV electrical equipment, security fencing and gate at Kilkerin Point 220 kV compound; and (4) All ancillary site development works including site preparation works, site clearance and levelling, hardstanding, internal access tracks and temporary construction compound. This planning application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Assessment (NIS)

  Permission · Clare County Council, 23195

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
• Special Protection Area: River Shannon and River Fergus Estuaries SPA 004077

Recorded monuments

• CL068-046 Battery
  Description

  One of a number of defensive batteries built along the Shannon estuary in the early 19th century, this example at Kilkerin Point is situated directly across from another at Tarbert Island (KE003-002----). Between them they commanded the river with cross-fire from their guns (Kerrigan 1995, 208). A D-shaped area (ext. dims. 108m N-S; 70m E-W) (see Kerrigan 1995, 209, Fig. 108) surrounded by a drystone moat (Wth 4-5m; D 3-4m) and a rampart (Wth 6-9m) with a blockhouse (18m N-S; 11.6m E-W) at E and six gun placements along the curved W side facing out into the estuary. The walls of the blockhouse are battered and five musket loops at each end defended the moat. On the upper level 5 musket loops covered the interior of the battery with the entrance door at one end of that façade. The doorway was recessed to accommodate the drawbridge when raised. The lower level of the blockhouse was divided into rooms for storage and a magazine. The upper floor provided accommodation with a large window at each end of the building. A narrow staircase in the thickness of the wall gives access to the gun platforms above. A small semi-basement vaulted structure lies in the interior and was noted on plans as a ‘shell-filling room’. The land at Kilkerrin was acquired by the government in March 1811 and the battery was constructed soon after that date. Other batteries along the estuary on the Clare side include Kilcredaun (CL072-027002-) on the N side of the mouth of the Shannon, Doonaha (CL066-037001-) some three miles NE of Kilcredaun, and the S tip of Scattery Island (CL067-024015-) in the middle of the estuary. On the S side of the estuary batteries were built at Carrig Island (KE002-004----), Tarbert (KE003-002----), Foynes (LI010-001----) and at Beagh Castle (LI003-002006-). (Kerrigan 1995, 208-211) The following images have been uploaded: CL068-046----_01.jpg View from the gun emplacement on top of the blockhouse showing the interior of the battery with the vaulted structure in the centre. Tarbert is visible across the estuary in the background. CL068-046----_02.jpg The N face of the blockhouse from the moat. The gate piers are visible on the right. CL068-046----_03.jpg The blockhouse from WNW showing the gateway to the left. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 18 January 2022

• CL068-047 Quarry
  Description

  Listed as ‘Earthwork’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996) as it was hachured on the 1922 OS 6-inch map. However, it is hachured on the OS 25-inch map and named ‘Quarry (disused)’. On inspection in 2001 an irregular quarried area (38m N-S; 80 E-W) was noted. It may have been used for fill in the construction of the neaby battery (CL068-046----). Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 1 April 2015

Architectural heritage

• Kilkerin Fort, battery, 1790–1830 · National interest
  Description

  Freestanding six-bay single-storey over basement fort, built c. 1810, surrounded by moat. Now disused. Inclined cut-limestone parapet with brick chimneystack to roof. Cut-limestone walls with base batter. Timber matchboard door set in segmental-arched recess to accommodate retractable drawbridge. Gun loops and square-headed windows with cut-stone dressings. Detached four-bay single-storey magazine with moat and base batter to site. Snecked stone retaining walls to glacis extending to shore. Cut-stone gate piers set in rubble stone walls.

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 Lakyle North, about 1 in 10 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 Lakyle North.

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 Lakyle North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Lakyle North · An Leathchoill Thuaidh

Area

1,227,586 m² (122.76 ha, 303.34 acres)

Civil parish

Killofin, and its townlands

Barony

Clonderalaw

Electoral division

Killofin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

311 people lived in 127 households in the Killofin electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Kilkerin, Lakyle South

Placenames

Lakyle North 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.