Lyranes Upper

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lyranes Upper, from 224 m² to 309,829 m² (30.98 ha, 76.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Lyranes Upper 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.

• 6 Apr 2023Refused

  CONSTRUCT A NEW SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, SERVED BY A SEPTIC TANK FOLLOWED BY PURAFLO FILTERS SERVED BY A SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23375

• 19 Nov 2021Refused

  CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, SERVED BY A SEPTIC TANK FOLLOWED BY PURAFLO FILTERS SERVED BY A SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211322

• 4 Jun 2021Conditional

  FOR DEVELOPMENT ALONG A 12.6KM LONG SECTION OF AN EXISTING 20KV OVERHEAD ELECTRICITY LINE (REFERRED TO AS "THE GLENCAR LINE") LOCATED BETWEEN STRUCTURES 1 TO 142 INCLUSIVE. THE DEVELOPMENT CONSISTS OF REFURBISHMENT AND UPGRADING WORKS INCLUDING (WHERE NECESSARY) REPLACEMENT OF EXISTING POLES, AND THE PROVISION OF 5 NO. NEW POLES, ALONG THE EXISTING OVERHEAD ELECTIRCITY LINE. REPLACEMENT POLES WILL BE CONSTRUCTED AT, OR IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT TO, THE EXISTING STRUCTURES THAT THEY WILL REPLACE. REPLACEMENT AND NEW POLES WILL HAVE A MAXIMUM HEIGHT OF 12M ABOVE GROUND; AND BE SIMILAR IN APPEARANCE TO EXISITNG POLES. ADDITIONAL UPGRADE WORKS WILL INCLUDE: INSTALLATION OF STAYS; REPLACEMENT OF EXISTING EQUIPMENT E.G. HEADGEAR, INSTALLATION OF ADDITIONAL EQUIPMENT; INSTALLATION OF A NEW 3-PHASE CONDUCTOR ALONG THE FULL LENGTH OF THE LINE; AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY WORKS INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF TEMPORARY ACCESSWAYS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) WILL BE SUBMITTED TO THE PLANNING AUTHORITY WITH THE APPLICATION

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 21616

• 7 Sept 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE SERVED BY SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17892

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: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC 000365
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment 000365

Recorded monuments

• KE072-004 Standing stone
  Description

  This site, marked ‘Gallaun’ on the first edition of the OS map, was located on low-lying level pastureland E of the Caragh river. No visible trace of the monument survives, nor is it recalled locally. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 245. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013

• KE072-018 Souterrain
  Description

  This site, located in elevated pasture, just E of the Caragh river, is locally reputed to be a souterrain. No visible surface trace of it survives. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 896. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 Lyranes Upper, 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 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 Lyranes Upper.

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 Lyranes Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Lyranes Upper · Na Ladhráin Uachtaracha

Area

1,734,408 m² (173.44 ha, 428.58 acres)

Civil parish

Knockane, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkerron North

Electoral division

Curraghbeg, the unit of the census

Census 2022

187 people lived in 68 households in the Curraghbeg electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cosha South, Curragh Beg, Gortmaloon West, Lyranes Lower, Shanacashel

Placenames

Lyranes Upper 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.