# Lyre, Co. Wexford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Monart, barony of Scarawalsh, Co. Wexford; in Irish An Ladhar. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 366,639 m² (36.66 ha, 90.6 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,334 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 10 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Monart, https://everytownland.com/wexford/parish/monart.md - Barony: Scarawalsh - Electoral division: Enniscorthy Rural, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Wexford, https://everytownland.com/wexford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/52463 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 241616 - Centre: latitude 52.515869, longitude -6.589826 (WGS 84) ## 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); 22 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 386314: 122,076 m² (12.21 ha, 30.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/386314.md - Parcel 398877: 120,226 m² (12.02 ha, 29.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/398877.md - Parcel 404744: 41,045 m² (4.1 ha, 10.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/404744.md - Parcel 2708248: 36,163 m² (3.62 ha, 8.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2708248.md - Parcel 425549: 12,897 m² (1.29 ha, 3.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/425549.md - Parcel 406345: 2,672 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/406345.md - Parcel 415539: 2,274 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/415539.md - Parcel 388597: 2,151 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/388597.md - Parcel 394326: 2,046 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/394326.md - Parcel 413761: 1,909 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/413761.md - Parcel 414012: 1,862 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/414012.md - Parcel 392297: 1,767 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/392297.md - Parcel 417315: 1,760 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/417315.md - Parcel 420161: 1,608 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/420161.md - Parcel 428960: 1,491 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/428960.md - Parcel 425418: 1,369 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/425418.md - Parcel 423560: 1,298 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/423560.md - Parcel 388844: 1,275 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/388844.md - Parcel 387582: 1,254 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/387582.md - Parcel 405297: 1,152 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/405297.md - Parcel 425441: 1,093 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/425441.md - Parcel 364838: 1,071 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/364838.md - Parcel 361435: 1,034 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/361435.md - Parcel 364059: 1,018 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/364059.md - Parcel 418541: 1,010 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/418541.md - Parcel 417857: 926 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/417857.md - Parcel 381880: 751 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/381880.md - Parcel 2763340: 579 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2763340.md - Parcel 5939999: 295 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5939999.md - Parcel 5636543: 267 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5636543.md - Parcel 5589675: 179 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5589675.md - Parcel 3693356: 121 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3693356.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 10 applications, newest first. - 18 May 2026, Wexford County Council 20260625: N/a. Permission, 99 homes. Permission for a mixed residential development of 99 no. dwelling units for. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/131240 - 20 Oct 2025, Wexford County Council 20251340: Granted (conditional). Permission, 99 homes. Full Planning Permission of a mixed residential development of 99 no. dwelling. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/129929 - 5 Sept 2025, Wexford County Council 20251117: Granted (conditional). Retention. Permission for retention of creche building and associated parking spaces. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/129710 - 22 May 2025, Wexford County Council 20250590: Granted (conditional). Retention. Retention of conversion of domestic garage to living space (kitchen/dining area. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/129029 - 2 May 2025, Wexford County Council 20250512: Granted (conditional). Retention. Permission for : 1. Retention of dwelling house as built (extension and. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/128937 - 26 Apr 2019, Wexford County Council 20190555: Granted (conditional). Permission. PERMISSION FOR A PAY TO USE PORTABLE WASTE COMPACTOR FOR RESIDUAL WASTE AND FOOD. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/108428 - 6 Mar 2019, Wexford County Council 20100296: Granted (conditional). Extension of duration. (A) 60 NO. SERVICED SITES FOR TWO STOREY DWELLINGS. (B) 39 NO. TWO STOREY 3 BED. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/108096 - 27 Jul 2018, Wexford County Council 20181026: N/a. Permission, 98 homes. PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF 96 no. DWELLINGS CONSISTING OF 2 NO. 2- BEDROOM D. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/106717 - 26 Apr 2017, Wexford County Council 20170520: Granted (conditional). Permission. PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED ERECTION OF ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSIONS TO AN. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/103666 - 14 Jun 2016, Wexford County Council 20160666: Granted (conditional). Permission. PERMISSION FOR (A) THE PROPOSED RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF AN EXPIRED PLANNING PERMISSI. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/101790 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Lyre. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WX019-044: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX019-044----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lyre. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2882.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/wexford/lyre.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wexford/lyre.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wexford/lyre.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/wexford.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Enniscorthy: https://everytownland.com/wexford/enniscorthy.md - Greenville: https://everytownland.com/wexford/greenville.md - Killalligan South: https://everytownland.com/wexford/killalligan-south.md - Milehouse: https://everytownland.com/wexford/milehouse.md - Shingaun: https://everytownland.com/wexford/shingaun.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/wexford/lyre - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wexford/lyre