Lyre

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 as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Castleisland-Corca Dhuibhne Municipal District Settlements' Plan (Variation 3 Kerry CDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 25 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New/Proposed Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Castleisland-Corca Dhuibhne Municipal District Settlements' Plan (Variation 3 Kerry CDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Landscape Protection/Buffer Space (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Castleisland-Corca Dhuibhne Municipal District Settlements' Plan (Variation 3 Kerry CDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 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.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Lyre, 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_112 (ZIP).

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

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

2,439 people lived in 858 households in the Milltown electoral division. 68% of households owned 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.