Lyre
Townland in the civil parish of Monart, barony of Scarawalsh, Co. Wexford; in Irish An Ladhar
- Area
- 36.7 ha
- 91 acres
- Land parcels
- 32
- registered freehold, median 1,334 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lyre, from 121 m² to 122,076 m² (12.21 ha, 30.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
18 May 2026N/a
Permission for a mixed residential development of 99 no. dwelling units for
Permission, 99 homes · Wexford County Council, 20260625
20 Oct 2025Granted (conditional)
Full Planning Permission of a mixed residential development of 99 no. dwelling
Permission, 99 homes · Wexford County Council, 20251340
5 Sept 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of creche building and associated parking spaces
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20251117
22 May 2025Granted (conditional)
Retention of conversion of domestic garage to living space (kitchen/dining area
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250590
2 May 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for : 1. Retention of dwelling house as built (extension and
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250512
26 Apr 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR A PAY TO USE PORTABLE WASTE COMPACTOR FOR RESIDUAL WASTE AND FOOD
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190555
6 Mar 2019Granted (conditional)
(A) 60 NO. SERVICED SITES FOR TWO STOREY DWELLINGS. (B) 39 NO. TWO STOREY 3 BED
Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20100296
27 Jul 2018N/a
PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF 96 no. DWELLINGS CONSISTING OF 2 NO. 2- BEDROOM D
Permission, 98 homes · Wexford County Council, 20181026
26 Apr 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED ERECTION OF ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSIONS TO AN
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170520
14 Jun 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR (A) THE PROPOSED RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF AN EXPIRED PLANNING PERMISSI
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160666
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Lyre.
Recorded monuments
- WX019-044 Enclosure
Description
Located on a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a circular feature (diam. c. 40m) defined by a single fosse is visible only on OSI images (2005). It was first reported by Cathy Davin. See the attached view from OSI images (2005) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 9 September 2020
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2882 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Lyre with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Lyre · An Ladhar
- Area
- 366,639 m² (36.66 ha, 90.6 acres)
- Civil parish
- Monart, and its townlands
- Barony
- Scarawalsh
- Electoral division
- Enniscorthy Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Enniscorthy Rural electoral division: 10,897 people in 4,009 households; 56% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Enniscorthy, Greenville, Killalligan South, Milehouse, Shingaun
- 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.