# Lakyle North, Co. Clare: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Killofin, barony of Clonderalaw, Co. Clare; in Irish An Leathchoill Thuaidh.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,227,586 m² (122.76 ha, 303.34 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 25,796 m² (2.58 ha, 6.37 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010
- Civil parish: Killofin, https://everytownland.com/clare/parish/killofin.md
- Barony: Clonderalaw
- Electoral division: Killofin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Clare, https://everytownland.com/clare.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/6991
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 31701
- Centre: latitude 52.602771, longitude -9.326137 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lakyle North, from 143 m² to 179,906 m² (17.99 ha, 44.46 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1444670: 179,906 m² (17.99 ha, 44.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1444670.md
- Parcel 1437298: 168,092 m² (16.81 ha, 41.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1437298.md
- Parcel 1444176: 132,142 m² (13.21 ha, 32.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1444176.md
- Parcel 1519998: 84,594 m² (8.46 ha, 20.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1519998.md
- Parcel 1482441: 65,718 m² (6.57 ha, 16.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1482441.md
- Parcel 1431656: 62,781 m² (6.28 ha, 15.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1431656.md
- Parcel 1520106: 53,705 m² (5.37 ha, 13.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1520106.md
- Parcel 1482273: 48,078 m² (4.81 ha, 11.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1482273.md
- Parcel 1432465: 47,641 m² (4.76 ha, 11.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1432465.md
- Parcel 1444097: 31,710 m² (3.17 ha, 7.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1444097.md
- Parcel 1514921: 29,273 m² (2.93 ha, 7.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1514921.md
- Parcel 1444095: 29,022 m² (2.9 ha, 7.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1444095.md
- Parcel 1520105: 28,619 m² (2.86 ha, 7.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1520105.md
- Parcel 1520092: 27,406 m² (2.74 ha, 6.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1520092.md
- Parcel 1437299: 25,943 m² (2.59 ha, 6.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1437299.md
- Parcel 1459432: 25,650 m² (2.57 ha, 6.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1459432.md
- Parcel 1482191: 21,643 m² (2.16 ha, 5.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1482191.md
- Parcel 1432466: 19,573 m² (1.96 ha, 4.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1432466.md
- Parcel 1520104: 18,872 m² (1.89 ha, 4.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1520104.md
- Parcel 2610713: 17,887 m² (1.79 ha, 4.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2610713.md
- Parcel 1482190: 17,877 m² (1.79 ha, 4.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1482190.md
- Parcel 1520103: 16,121 m² (1.61 ha, 3.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1520103.md
- Parcel 1444177: 7,381 m² (0.74 ha, 1.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1444177.md
- Parcel 1444098: 5,845 m² (0.58 ha, 1.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1444098.md
- Parcel 1510344: 4,841 m² (0.48 ha, 1.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1510344.md
- Parcel 1431657: 3,864 m² (0.39 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1431657.md
- Parcel 1474837: 2,569 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1474837.md
- Parcel 5479059: 1,327 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5479059.md
- Parcel 1450535: 1,014 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1450535.md
- Parcel 5564873: 143 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5564873.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

1 application, newest first.

- 31 Mar 2023, Clare County Council 23195: Conditional. Permission. 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). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/23195/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC, site code 002165, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002165
- Special Protection Area: River Shannon and River Fergus Estuaries SPA, site code 004077, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004077

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- CL068-046: Battery, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL068-046----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL068-047----. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- Kilkerin Fort, battery, 1790–1830, National interest, registry number 20406805, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CL&regno=20406805. 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.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/clare/lakyle-north.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/clare/lakyle-north.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/clare/lakyle-north.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

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: https://everytownland.com/clare.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Kilkerin: https://everytownland.com/clare/kilkerin.md
- Lakyle South: https://everytownland.com/clare/lakyle-south.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

- Page: https://everytownland.com/clare/lakyle-north
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