Lyre

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lyre, from 906 m² to 73,124 m² (7.31 ha, 18.07 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Lyre 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.

• 16 May 2025Conditional

  Permission for the following works: (i) demolition of existing extension to rear of dwelling house, (ii) construction of new extension to rear & side of dwelling house, (iii) construction of detached storage shed for agricultural machinery, (iv) construction of detached studio / shed for home gym & playroom, and (v) all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/271

• 3 Oct 2003Conditional

  Dormer dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/4952

• 26 Feb 2002Conditional

  Dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 02/808

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

• CO116-016 Standing stone
  Description

  On lower slopes of Hungry Hill overlooking Bear Haven and Bear Island to S. Two stones indicated here on O.S. map (1897). Rectangular stone aligned NE-SW (H 1.7m; 0.6m x 0.55m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO116-017 Standing stone
  Description

  On lower slopes of Hungry Hill overlooking Bear Haven and Bear Island to S. Three stones shown on OS 6-inch map (1897). Rectangular stone aligned ENE-WSW (H 1.57m; 0.7m x 0.5m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Architectural heritage

• House, 1900–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1910, now disused. Lean-to outbuilding attached to rear. Pitched slate roof with rendered red brick and rubble stone chimneystacks. Lime-washed roughcast rendered walls with plinth. Rubble stone walls to outbuilding. Camber-headed openings having two-over-two timber sliding sash windows, red brick block-and-start surrounds (first floor) and red brick arches (ground floor) with concrete sills. Camber-headed door opening with red brick arch, limestone and concrete step and replacement door and overlight.

• Post box, 1920–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Pole-mounted cast-iron post box, c.1930, with P&T emblem. Rounded-head box with rectangular aperture and display panel. Mounted on replacement timber post.

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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low.

Terrain model

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

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. Cork.

Name

Lyre · An Ladhar

Area

245,896 m² (24.59 ha, 60.76 acres)

Civil parish

Killaconenagh, and its townlands

Barony

Bear

Electoral division

Curryglass, the unit of the census

Census 2022

427 people lived in 179 households in the Curryglass electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 26% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardagannive, Bank, Boher, Carrig, Dromgare, Park, Rossmackowen Commons

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.