Okyle

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Okyle, from 21 m² to 290,014 m² (29 ha, 71.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Okyle 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 Okyle 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: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Blackwater River And Estuary 000072

Recorded monuments

• WA029-029 Burial ground
  Description

  Marked only on the 1927 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a 'Cillín' and depicted as a small feature (dims. c. 15m NW-SE; c. 6m NE-SW) that might have been truncated by a NW-SE road bank at NE. Situated in pasture towards the bottom of a S-facing slope, it is not visible at ground level. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 10 August 2011

• WA029-030 Church
  Description

  Located at the bottom of a S-facing slope with a canalised W-E stream c. 15m to the N, and the stream turns S c. 80m to the E. This is probalby a chapel-of-Ease in Mocollop parish. The E gable (int. L 6.26m) of a church with the remains of a 15th-century, twin-light tracery window survive. At the N end of the gable, at ground level, is a projecting, stone-roofed chamber (int. dims. 1.66m E-W; 1.45m N-S) with three musket loops and a light. The E end of the N wall (L c. 9m; T c. 1m; H c. 2.7m) survived c. 1840, and is described by J. O'Donovan as having the base of a window (Wth c. 0.7m) c. 1.2m from the E end (O'Flanagan 1929, 69-70). There is no evidence of an enclosure or of burial associated with the church. (Power 1898a, 217-19; 1938a, 67) O'Flanagan, M. (Compiler) (1929) Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Waterford collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1841. Typescript. Bray. Power, Rev. P. (1898a) Ancient ruined churches of Co. Waterford, WAJ 4, 83-95, 195-219. Power, Rev. P. (1938a) Some old churches of Decies, JRSAI, 68, 55-68. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 10 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Okyle House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey thatched estate manager’s house, c.1830, on a T-shaped plan retaining early fenestration with single-bay single-storey return with dormer attic to north. Renovated and extended, c.1980, comprising single-bay single-storey lean-to infill bay to north with single-bay single-storey lean-to projecting porch added to centre. Now in private residential use. Hipped roof (pitched to return) with thatch having rope work to ridges, cut-limestone chimney stacks, and rendered chimney stack to return having red brick dressings. Shallow lean-to corrugated-iron roofs to additional ranges with no rainwater goods on timber eaves. Painted lime rendered walls over random rubble stone construction with batter. Painted cement rendered walls to additional ranges. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and 2/2 timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings to additional ranges with concrete sills, and timber casement windows. Square-headed door openings with glazed timber panelled doors. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings, and timber panelled doors having timber panelled reveals. Set back from road in own grounds. (ii) Attached three-bay single-storey rubble stone outbuilding, c.1830, to north. Reroofed, c.1980. Pitched roof with replacement corrugated-iron, c.1980, iron ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Limewashed random rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with no sills, timber lintels, and timber panel fittings. Square-headed door opening with timber lintel, and timber panelled door. (iii) Attached two-bay single-storey rubble stone outbuilding, c.1880, to north. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered coping, and no rainwater goods on rendered squared rubble stone eaves. Limewashed random rubble stone walls. Square-headed window opening with no sill, timber lintel, and timber panelled fitting. Square-headed door opening with timber lintel, and timber boarded door. (iv) Attached three-bay single-storey mass-concrete outbuilding, c.1930, to north. Reroofed, c.1980. Pitched roof with replacement corrugated-iron, c.1980, iron ridge tiles, and no rainwater goods. Limewashed mass-concrete walls with piers (possibly originally flanking openings). Openings not visible.

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 Okyle, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Okyle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.

Name

Okyle · Ógchoill

Area

713,453 m² (71.35 ha, 176.3 acres)

Civil parish

Lismore and Mocollop, and its townlands

Barony

Coshmore and Coshbride

Electoral division

Drumroe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

256 people lived in 104 households in the Drumroe electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bridane Lower, Camphire, Glenasaggart, Monvore, Scart

Placenames

Okyle 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.