Kyle

48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kyle, from 55 m² to 447,643 m² (44.76 ha, 110.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• 4 Sept 2026N/a

  erect a 5-meter-high agricultural storage silo within existing farmyard with all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2660615

• 3 Sept 2026N/a

  To erect a 5-meter-high agricultural storage silo within our existing farmyard at Kyle Rathdowney co. Laois R32 Y3K with all associated site works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2660609

• 18 Nov 2025Conditional

  Construct a Cattle underpass with access roadway and effluent tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560761

• 19 Dec 2022Conditional

  retain extension to dwelling house, porch and entrance as constructed and all associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2260050

• 15 Dec 2022N/a

  Retention Planning Permission to retain extension to dwelling house, porch and entrance as constructed and all associated works at Kyle, Rathdowney, Co. Laois.

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2260042

• 2 Nov 2022Conditional

  construct a slatted cubicle unit with underground effluent tank, machinery shed and to carry out all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 22679

• 21 Dec 2021Conditional

  demolish existing former dwelling and ancillary structures - now in ruins, plus a new two storey dwelling, waste water treatment system, widening of existing site entrance, plus all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21904

• 12 Aug 2021N/a

  develop an underground mine extension to the former Galmoy Zinc & Lead Mine. The underground extension to the mine underlies the townland of Kyle, Co. Laois and will comprise the development of underground workings including an access route to join underground mining works concurrently proposed as recommencement of mining in Co. Kilkenny under Reg. Ref. 21/599 in the Kilkenny townlands of Garrylaun, Castletown, Rathreagh, Rathpatrick, Whiteswall, Moneynamuck (Stopford), Rathbane and Waterland close to the village of Galmoy, Co. Kilkenny. An IPC licence is required in relation to the proposed development. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and a Natura Impact Statemtent (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 21568

• 2 Aug 2019Conditional

  construct a domestic extension to an existing dwelling house to include septic tank with percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19447

• 31 Jan 2019Conditional

  extend existing cattle cubicle shed; construct new cattle cubicle shed attached to the existing one; construct new slatted slurry tanks and construct new silage pit, concrete yards and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 1950

• 30 May 2018Conditional

  construct 3 no. slatted effluent tanks, concrete areas and to carry out all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18330

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

• LA034-024 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated In an upland area. A subcircular area (dims. 48m E-W, 25.7m N-W) defined by a scarp (H c. 1.3m). No other visible surface remains. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA034-025 Megalithic structure
  Description

  Not marked on the 1840 or 1906 editions of the OS 6-inch maps. Ledwich has recorded what he termed an ancient judgement seat on the hill of Kyle and reproduced a sketch of same (1803, 321, Plate XXX). The sketch shows what appears to be a large section of rock, apparently outcrop, in the shape of a chair. This is not now readily identifiable on the partly furze-grown hill. It may have been largely if not wholly natural in origin. Whether it ever served the purpose mentioned by Ledwich is not known. (Ledwich 1803, 321). No visible surface remains of any Megalithic structure on the top of Kyle Hill. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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.

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 · Coill Ghort Riain

Area

2,861,646 m² (286.16 ha, 707.13 acres)

Civil parish

Erke, and its townlands

Barony

Clandonagh

Electoral division

Kyle South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kyle South electoral division: 296 people in 106 households; 93% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castletown (Co. Kilkenny), Clonburren (Moore), Clonmeen South, Graigueadrisly, Rossdarragh

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.