Lyre

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lyre, from 257 m² to 334,286 m² (33.43 ha, 82.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Lyre in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Galtee Mountains SAC 000646
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Galtee Mountains 000646

Recorded monuments

• LI050-025002 Cairn - boundary cairn
  Description

  In rough pasture, on the ridge between Carrignabinnia and Slievecushnabinnia, on the townland boundaries between Lyre and Carrigeen Mountain. Boundary cairns (LI050-025001-/-026----) lie 40m to the W and 120m to the E, respectively. Not marked on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Annotated ‘Mound’ on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. Depicted on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map as a small circular shaped mound. No surface remains visible on the Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 8 November 2021

• LI050-026 Cairn - boundary cairn
  Description

  In rough pasture, on the ridge between Carrignabinnia and Slievecushnabinnia, on the townland boundaries between Knocknagalty, Lyre and Carrigeen Mountain. Boundary cairns (LI050-025002-/-027----) lie 120m to the SW and 175m to the NE, respectively. Not marked on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Annotated ‘Mound’ on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. Depicted on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map as a small circular-shaped mound. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 8 November 2021

• LI050-027 Cairn - boundary cairn
  Description

  In rough pasture, on the ridge between Carrignabinnia and Slievecushnabinnia, on the townland boundaries between Knocknagalty and Lyre. Boundary cairn (LI050-026----) lies 175m to the SW. Not marked on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Annotated ‘Mound’ on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. Depicted on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map as a small circular shaped mound. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 8 November 2021

• LI050-028001 Cairn - boundary cairn
  Description

  In rough pasture, on Slievecushnabinnia Mountain, on the townland boundaries between Knocknagalty and Lyre. One of three boundary cairns (LI050-028002-/003-) lie 10m and 25m to the NW, respectively. Not marked on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Annotated ‘Mounds’ on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. Depicted on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map as a small circular shaped mound. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 8 November 2021

• LI050-028002 Cairn - boundary cairn
  Description

  In rough pasture, on Slievecushnabinnia Mountain, on the townland boundaries between Knocknagalty and Lyre. One of three boundary cairns (LI050-028001-/003-) lie 10m to the SW and 15m to the NW, respectively. Not marked on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Annotated ‘Mounds’ on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. Depicted on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map as a small circular shaped mound. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 8 November 2021

• LI050-028003 Cairn - boundary cairn
  Description

  In rough pasture, on Slievecushnabinnia Mountain, on the townland boundaries between Knocknagalty and Lyre. One of three boundary cairns (LI050-028001-/002-) lie 25m and 15m to the SW, respectively. Not marked on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Annotated ‘Mounds’ on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. Depicted on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map as a small circular shaped mound. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 8 November 2021

• TS073-018 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a NNW-facing slope in undulating terrain, Lyre Glen runs c. 20-30m to the W. A roughly circular ringfort (diam. 38.5m N-S; E-W based on OS 6-inch map is c. 30m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 1.8m; int. H 1m; ext. H 0.2m) with a high stone content and evidence of a stone revettment. In the W quadrant the bank is reduced to scarp (H c. 3m). The monument is known locally as the 'Lis'. The ringfort is heavily overgrown with scrub both on the banks and in the interior. There is a gap in the bank in the SSW quadrant. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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 5 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, partly inferred.

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. Tipperary.

Name

Lyre · An Ladhar

Area

2,272,219 m² (227.22 ha, 561.48 acres)

Civil parish

Clonbeg, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Clonbeg, the unit of the census

Census 2022

777 people lived in 299 households in the Clonbeg electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygeana (Co. Limerick), Carrigeen Mountain (Co. Limerick), Knockanebrack (Co. Limerick), Knocknagalty (Co. Limerick), Longford

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.