Lyre
Townland in the civil parish of Kilcolman, barony of Magunihy, Co. Kerry
- Area
- 76.3 ha
- 189 acres
- Land parcels
- 53
- registered freehold, median 2,810 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lyre, from 73 m² to 137,141 m² (13.71 ha, 33.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Corca Dhuibhne Electoral Area Local Area Plan 2021-2027, Kerry · 23 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - O1Strategic Reserve, White Land (Strategic reserve, White land)
Corca Dhuibhne Electoral Area Local Area Plan 2021-2027, Kerry · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1Agriculture
Corca Dhuibhne Electoral Area Local Area Plan 2021-2027, Kerry · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M4Built Up Area (Built up area)
Corca Dhuibhne Electoral Area Local Area Plan 2021-2027, Kerry · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Open Space, Park (Open space, park)
Corca Dhuibhne Electoral Area Local Area Plan 2021-2027, Kerry · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
19 Jan 2026Conditional
(1) renovate a derelict property comprising of a single storey stone cottage with a mass concrete extension to the side (2) demolish an existing single leaf block built extension to the rear (3) demolish an existing thatch under tin roof over the stone cottage and replace with a new roof (4) demolish an existing tin roof over the mass concrete extension and replace with a new roof (5) minor modifications to the elevations (6) install a mechanical treatment unit & polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660023
20 Feb 2019Conditional
A) DEMOLISH EXISTING COTTAGE B) CONSTRUCT NEW DWELLING HOUSE TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED AND ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19166
31 Jan 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT AN AGRICULTURAL ANIMAL HOUSE WITH SLATTED TANK AND ASSOCIATED WORKS ON HIS LANDS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 1861
9 Aug 2017Conditional
(A) CONSTRUCT A TWO STOREY EXTENSION WITH ASSOCIATED ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING ELEVATIONS, INCLUDING DEMOLITION OF EXISTING ANNEX AND (B) CONSTRUCT A NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT AND ECO FILTER TO OUR HOUSE
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17777
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Lyre.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_112 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Lyre with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Lyre
- Area
- 763,285 m² (76.33 ha, 188.61 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcolman, and its townlands
- Barony
- Magunihy
- Electoral division
- Milltown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Milltown electoral division: 2,439 people in 858 households; 68% of households own their home; 55% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyoughtragh North, Ballyoughtragh South, Ballyvirrane, Knockavota, Milltown
- 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.