Lyre

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lyre, from 2,994 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres) to 207,750 m² (20.77 ha, 51.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Lyre 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.

• 27 Nov 2007Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/2950

• 12 Mar 2007Conditional

  Demolition of dwelling, construction of new dwellinghouse and installation of septic tank system

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/691

• 5 Sept 2005Withdrawn

  Demolition of dwelling and construction of dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/6408

• 22 Nov 2002Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Approval · Cork County Council, 02/5147

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: Caha Mountains SAC 000093
• Special Area of Conservation: Glengarriff Harbour and Woodland SAC 000090
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Caha Mountains 000093

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lyre.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lyre.

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

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lyre.

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

Name

Lyre · An Ladhar

Area

825,558 m² (82.56 ha, 204 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcaskan, and its townlands

Barony

Bear

Electoral division

Kilcaskan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilcaskan electoral division: 895 people in 373 households; 80% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 27% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Doorus, Esk West (Co. Kerry), Releagh (Co. Kerry), Rossnagrena, Tooreen, Youngfield

Placenames

Lyre 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.