Lyrefune
Lyrefune is a townland in the civil parish of Templetenny, barony of Iffa and Offa West, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is An Ladhar Fhionn.
- Area
- 482.7 ha
- 1,193 acres
- Land parcels
- 89
- registered freehold, median 31,432 m² (3.14 ha, 7.77 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
89 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lyrefune, from 43 m² to 274,863 m² (27.49 ha, 67.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 47 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Lyrefune 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
20 Aug 2026N/a
the demolition of existing front boundary wall and entrance, permission to construct new front boundary wall and entrance, permission to construct new domestic garage and permission to de-commission existing septic tank and replace with new waste water treatment system and percolation area. RETENTION PERMISSION for two sheds, PERMISSION to demolish the two sheds, and RETENTION PERMISSION for the change to front elevation of dwelling consisting of removal of front door opening, and for retention permission for the demolition of entrance pier and retention permission to retain removal of front boundary hedgerow and trees and associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660811
20 Dec 2024Conditional
1) New upgraded Wastewater Treatment system, 2) Raised bed Percolation Area, 3) Decommissioning and removal of existing septic tank, and 4) All associated site development works .
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2461138
9 Nov 2024Conditional
(a) demolition of previous extension to western side of dwelling, along with 2 no annexes to the rear, (b) renovate existing dwelling, along with elevational changes, (c) construct a single storey porch to front and a storey and a half extension to the rear of the existing dwelling, (d) construct a detached garage/shed, (e) decommission the existing septic tank and install a Tertiary Treatment System and Infiltration/Treatment Area, (f) allow for all ancillary site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460962
25 Apr 2019Conditional
construction of a two storey dwelling house with single storey elements, domestic single storey garage, all serviced by a proprietary waste water treatment system and soil polishing filter, to include all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 19600422
9 Apr 2019N/a
construction of a two storey dwelling house with single storey elements, domestic single storey garage, all serviced by a proprietary waste water treatment system and soil polishing filter to include all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19600338
1 Nov 2017Conditional
demolition of a fire damaged semi detached dwelling and construct a semi detached part dormer style, part single store dwelling, septic tank with percolation area and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 17601202
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Suir SAC 002137
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lyrefune.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lyrefune.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Lyrefune, 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 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 Lyrefune.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Lyrefune with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Lyrefune · An Ladhar Fhionn
- Area
- 4,826,818 m² (482.68 ha, 1,192.73 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templetenny, and its townlands
- Barony
- Iffa and Offa West
- Electoral division
- Ballyporeen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 964 people lived in 362 households in the Ballyporeen electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyporeen, Ballywilliam, Dangan, Glenacunna, Gortnaskehy (Co. Cork), Lyre (Co. Cork)
- Placenames
- Lyrefune 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.