# Lyranes Upper, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Knockane, barony of Dunkerron North, Co. Kerry; in Irish Na Ladhráin Uachtaracha. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,734,408 m² (173.44 ha, 428.58 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,352 m² (0.64 ha, 1.57 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Knockane, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/knockane.md - Barony: Dunkerron North - Electoral division: Curraghbeg, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/22204 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 72178 - Centre: latitude 51.99989, longitude -9.862303 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lyranes Upper, from 224 m² to 309,829 m² (30.98 ha, 76.56 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1239591: 309,829 m² (30.98 ha, 76.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1239591.md - Parcel 1158327: 219,849 m² (21.98 ha, 54.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1158327.md - Parcel 1183865: 214,875 m² (21.49 ha, 53.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1183865.md - Parcel 1237421: 213,316 m² (21.33 ha, 52.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1237421.md - Parcel 1158325: 202,792 m² (20.28 ha, 50.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1158325.md - Parcel 1183866: 118,602 m² (11.86 ha, 29.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1183866.md - Parcel 1183762: 104,483 m² (10.45 ha, 25.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1183762.md - Parcel 1158328: 99,434 m² (9.94 ha, 24.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1158328.md - Parcel 1183760: 83,417 m² (8.34 ha, 20.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1183760.md - Parcel 1183761: 64,017 m² (6.4 ha, 15.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1183761.md - Parcel 5989155: 42,315 m² (4.23 ha, 10.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5989155.md - Parcel 1215836: 8,524 m² (0.85 ha, 2.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1215836.md - Parcel 1141308: 7,570 m² (0.76 ha, 1.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1141308.md - Parcel 1197282: 5,135 m² (0.51 ha, 1.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1197282.md - Parcel 1183764: 5,039 m² (0.5 ha, 1.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1183764.md - Parcel 1240879: 2,936 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1240879.md - Parcel 1183864: 2,187 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1183864.md - Parcel 1220666: 2,147 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1220666.md - Parcel 1212844: 2,134 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1212844.md - Parcel 1218968: 1,801 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1218968.md - Parcel 1189582: 1,716 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1189582.md - Parcel 1222165: 1,259 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1222165.md - Parcel 1239835: 552 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1239835.md - Parcel 1158099: 442 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1158099.md - Parcel 1193072: 391 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1193072.md - Parcel 1141489: 224 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1141489.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 6 Apr 2023, Kerry County Council 23375: Refused. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/23375/0 - 19 Nov 2021, Kerry County Council 211322: Refused. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/211322/0 - 4 Jun 2021, Kerry County Council 21616: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/21616/0 - 7 Sept 2017, Kerry County Council 17892: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE SERVED BY SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/17892/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC, site code 000365, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000365 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment, site code 000365 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KE072-004: Standing stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE072-004----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE072-018----. 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 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lyranes Upper. ## 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 Lyranes Upper, about 1 in 5 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 Lyranes Upper. - 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/kerry/lyranes-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/lyranes-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/lyranes-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/kerry.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Cosha South: https://everytownland.com/kerry/cosha-south.md - Curragh Beg: https://everytownland.com/kerry/curragh-beg.md - Gortmaloon West: https://everytownland.com/kerry/gortmaloon-west.md - Lyranes Lower: https://everytownland.com/kerry/lyranes-lower.md - Shanacashel: https://everytownland.com/kerry/shanacashel.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. --- 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/kerry/lyranes-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kerry/lyranes-upper