Lyre

136 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lyre, from 25 m² to 454,356 m² (45.44 ha, 112.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as 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.

• 13 Oct 2025Grant with conditions

  Permission for the construction of 4 no. two storey dwelling houses along with alterations to existing entrance and construction of a new entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6160

• 19 Sept 2025Grant with conditions

  Permission to remove existing foundations and construct a new dwelling house and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5982

• 8 Sept 2025Invalid - prepare letters

  Permission for the construction of 4 no. two storey dwelling houses and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5815

• 3 Sept 2025Refused

  Permission for change of use of 2 no. existing school classrooms into full day care childcare facilities

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5770

• 13 May 2022Conditional

  An all weather playing area with associated fence enclosure/ site work in lieu of the previously granted permission for a sports hall under planning ref 18/06120

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5109

• 21 May 2020Conditional

  To construct a dwelling house & garage with related site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5012

• 10 Mar 2020Conditional

  To construct single storey granny flat and domestic extension to side of existing two storey dwelling, and all associated works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4513

• 10 Aug 2018Conditional

  Demolition and removal of existing derelict Community Centre and erection of a new Sports Hall including all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6120

• 19 Sept 2017Conditional

  Construction of a new playground and a new amenity walkway including all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6417

• 12 Jul 2017Incompleted application

  Construction of a new playground and a new amenity walkway including all associated siteworks.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/5791

• 23 Feb 2016Conditional

  To construct a store room at the rear of the existing community hall including associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4410

• 29 Apr 2013Conditional

  Alterations to existing agricultural entrance

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/4780

• 14 Mar 2013Incompleted application

  Alterations to existing agricultural entrance

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/4437

• 3 Sept 2012Conditional

  Demolition of existing farm buildings and construction of new slatted building, machinery shed, covered silage pits, 2no. feed silos and a bunded diesel fuel tank and ancillary services for new farmyard

  Permission · Cork County Council, 12/5889

• 15 Aug 2012Incompleted application

  Demolition of existing farm building and construction of a new slatted building, machinery shed, covered silage pits and ancillary services for new farmyard

  Permission · Cork County Council, 12/5754

• 9 Feb 2011Withdrawn

  Dwellinghouse, septic tank and percolation area and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/4225

• 23 Jul 2010Conditional

  Single storey dwelling, treatment unit and associated site works

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 10/5862

• 22 Jun 2010Incompleted application

  Single storey dwelling, septic tank and associated site works

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 10/5526

• 6 Apr 2010Conditional

  Construction of new community centre consisting of common room, kitchen, offices, toilets and storage areas including all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4791

• 21 May 2009Conditional

  Construction of 3no. pitched roofs to existing flat roof buildings

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5641

• 20 May 2008Conditional

  Retention of alterations and extension to dwellinghouse, detached garage, connection to foul and stormwater sewers and revised site boundaries

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/6810

• 31 Mar 2008Incompleted application

  Retention of alterations and extensions to dwellinghouse, retention of garage, connection to foul and stormwater sewers and revised site boundaries

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5766

• 12 Mar 2008Conditional

  Construction of filling station with shop and 2 no. retail units, 3 no. underground fuel storage tanks, signage, hydrocarbon seperator, 2 no. fuel pumps, canopy to cover pumps and all associated site works to include entrance to public road

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5385

• 5 Mar 2008Incompleted application

  Retention of alterations and extension to dwellinghouse, garage for domestic storage purposes, connection to foul and stormwater sewers and revisions to site boundaries

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5214

• 21 Dec 2007Incompleted application

  Construction of filling station with shop and retail unit, 3 no. underground fuel storage tank, signage, hydrocarbon seperator, 2 no. fuel pumps, canopy over pumps and all associated site works to include entrance from public road

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/13428

The 25 most recent of 42 applications.

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

• CO040-027001 Cliff-edge fort
  Description

  On N-facing elevated site, overlooking Glen River to N. Depicted as hachured roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1904 OS 6-inch map, defined by arc of two hachured banks SE->N and by straight-sided cliff face to NE above river valley; shown similarly on 1937 OS 6-inch map except for central enclosure which is shown as a platform. Gravel quarrying has destroyed site; no visible remains survive. 'Part of the bank, some of the ditch and a run of the counter-scarp bank on the uphill or south side...' was noted during investigation of souterrain (CO040-02702-) uncovered during quarrying (O'Kelly and Shee 1968, 46). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO040-027002 Souterrain
  Description

  In S half of ringfort (CO040-02701-). Ringfort and souterrain destroyed by quarrying in 1960s. According to local information, souterrain 'ran the length of the sand pit and had a cone-shaped bee-hive construction in the centre of it'. Fragment of stone-built entry passage, roofed with lintels, which appeared to give access to a chamber, was inspected by M.J. O'Kelly and E. Shee (1968, 46-7); subsequently completely destroyed. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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

At the centre of the townland of Lyre, about 1 in 5 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 high, 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 Lyre.

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

Name

Lyre · An Ladhar

Area

2,025,978 m² (202.6 ha, 500.63 acres)

Civil parish

Clonmeen, and its townlands

Barony

Duhallow

Electoral division

Tincoora, the unit of the census

Census 2022

515 people lived in 181 households in the Tincoora electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolroe More, Glen North, Glen South, Glentaneatnagh North, Killavoy, Nadanuller Beg, Nadanuller More

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.