Clyda

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clyda, from 1,850 m² to 242,298 m² (24.23 ha, 59.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 4 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• R2Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses (Existing residential)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Green Infrastructure (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4Green Infrastructure (Active open space)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 16 Oct 2025Grant with conditions

  Permission for retention of as-built dwelling house previously permitted under planning reference number 75/982, site boundaries and all associated site works and services.

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 25/6200

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: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Clyda.

Architectural heritage

• Clyda Bridge (Lower), bridge, 1730–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triple-arch limestone road bridge over River Clyda, built c. 1750 and widened or rebuilt c.1800. Ashlar stone walls and voussoirs to round arches. Ashlar V-cutwaters to both elevations. Rubble stone parapet walls. Stonework visible to soffits indicates that bridge was widened to north side.

• Clyda House, house, 1795–1815 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over half-basement house, built c.1805, with three-bay side elevations and having bowed addition to rear. Hipped skirt slate roof. Rendered walls. Segmental-headed window openings to first floor and square-headed to ground floor, with timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to first floor and nine-over-six pane to ground floor. Round-headed timber sliding sash stairs window to rear elevation. Round-headed doorway with fanlight, approached by limestone steps over basement area. Courtyard of outbuildings to west.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_921 (ZIP).

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 Clyda with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Clyda · An Chlaoideach

Area

255,031 m² (25.5 ha, 63.02 acres)

Civil parish

Kilshannig, and its townlands

Barony

Duhallow

Electoral division

Dromore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dromore electoral division: 3,061 people in 953 households; 82% of households own their home; 55% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clydaville, Firville West, Kilvealaton East, Quartertown Lower

Placenames

Clyda 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.