Kye

87 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kye, from 69 m² to 86,997 m² (8.7 ha, 21.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 42 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 Kye 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.

• 23 Sept 2021Conditional

  Retention Permission to retain as constructed extension to rear of existing dwelling house and all ancillary site development works at

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21534

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 Kye.

Recorded monuments

• RO017-123001 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on the flat, low-lying landscape of a reclaimed lake, c. 25m SE of Pollacat Well. Oval grass-covered cairn (dims 36m N-S; 28.5m E-W; H 1.6-1.75m) with a level upper surface (dims 23m N-S; 14.5m E-W). Immediately to the SE is a second cairn (RO017-123002-), and earthwork (RO017-124----) is c. 90m to the NE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO017-123002 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  On the flat, low-lying landscape of a reclaimed lake. Oval grass-covered cairn (dims 13.75m N-S; 10.8m E-W; H 1.1-1.45m) with a level upper surface (dims 4.5m N-S; 4m E-W). Cairn (RO017-123001-) is immediately to the NW, and earthwork (RO017-124----) is c. 90m to the NE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO017-124 Earthwork
  Description

  Marked only on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a subrectangular cairn feature (dims c. 35m N-S; c. 20m E-W) described in gothic lettering as a 'Carn', and situated on the low-lying, level landscape of a reclaimed lake c. 20m SE of an unnamed well or swallow-hole. It is not visible at ground level in pasture. The cairns (RO017-123001-; RO017-123002-) are c. 90m to the SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO017-125 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a slight N-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 36.5m E-W; 35.5m N-S) defined by a low earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.65m) W-N, and by a low scarp (H 0.6m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO017-126 Earthwork
  Description

  Marked as a rectangular enclosure (dims c. 35m E-W; c. 25m N-S) only on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on the gentle N-facing slope of an E-W drumlin ridge. It is not visible at ground level in pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO017-162 Moated site
  Description

  On the S-facing slope of a small E-W drumlin ridge. Square grass-covered area (dims 27.5m N-S; 27.5m E-W) defined by a scrub-covered earthen bank (Wth 4-5m; int. H 0.4m at E to 1.6m at N; ext. H 0.95m) at N and the N part of the E side, and scrub-covered scarps (H 0.7m at W to 1.5m at S) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or moat. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO017-163 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 40m) with a crescent (dim. c. 10m N-S) attached to the perimeter E-SW on the 1837 and 1914 eds. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated at the crest of the N-facing slope of a low E-W ridge drumlin ridge towards the E end. It is not visible at ground level in reclaimed pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, low (inferred).

Terrain model

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

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 Kye with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Kye

Area

1,418,598 m² (141.86 ha, 350.54 acres)

Civil parish

Clooncraff, and its townlands

Barony

Roscommon

Electoral division

Creeve, the unit of the census

Census 2022

156 people lived in 61 households in the Creeve electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowkeel, Carrowkeel Upper, Carrownaglearagh, Creeve, Drumlish, Drummullin, Lissavilla

Placenames

Kye 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.