Kyle

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kyle, from 1,544 m² to 333,975 m² (33.4 ha, 82.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 Kyle 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.

• 8 Dec 2021Conditional

  new dwelling house , domestic garage, septic tank, percolation area, new site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 21843

• 29 Jan 2021Conditional

  erect general purpose agricultural shed and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2140

• 20 Aug 2018Conditional

  construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, bored well, new splayed entrance and associated site work

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18515

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Kyle.

Recorded monuments

• LA019-078 Burial
  Description

  The files of the National Museum of Ireland records that in May 1956 human remains were discovered following a collapse at a sandpit at Kyle, near Timahoe, Co. Laois (Cahill & Sikora 2011, Vol. 2, 490). According to the workers in the sandpit, a human skull and some bones were noted, but no grave goods or structural stones were noted in the vicinity. The site was not investigated and the remains were not acquired. Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload / revision : 10 August 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 Kyle, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Kyle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Kyle · An Choill

Area

1,030,745 m² (103.07 ha, 254.7 acres)

Civil parish

Fossy or Timahoe, and its townlands

Barony

Cullenagh

Electoral division

Timahoe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

664 people lived in 210 households in the Timahoe electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycoolan, Coolnabacky, Orchard Lower, Timahoe, Timogue

Placenames

Kyle 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.