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Lyre

An Ladhar

An estate document distinguishes Lyre from its neighbouring namesake.

Watercolour and fine ink view along a pale woodland lane with a shallow muddy ford, conifers and yellow flowering gorse.
Illustration, an Avondhu Way lane near Lyre, County Cork, as photographed in June 2009
Recorded locationLyre52.22453° N · 8.13155° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

The name

ladharfork

These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.

An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.

Recorded forms

  • An Ladhar · Irish · main form · validated name
  • Lyre · English · main form

Place & story

A deed preserved in Limerick

The University of Limerick’s Armstrong Papers catalogue describes a further mortgage dated 1 August 1791 that includes Lyre, Gortnaskehy and Lyre Barry among lands in the barony of Condons and Clangibbon. The parties included Sir Robert Palk of Haldon House in Devon. The deed concerned £8,000 and properties in several counties, so that sum cannot be assigned to Lyre alone. Its separate naming of Lyre and Lyre Barry preserves a distinction still present in the local townland pattern. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Cork
Civil parish
Macroney
Coordinates
52.22453, -8.13155
Mapped area
2.33 km²
Logainm ID
10190 ↗

People & family history

Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.

1926 census

63People recorded
11Households recorded

Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records

  • Cashman 10
  • Lane 10
  • Ivory 8
  • Condon 7
  • Clancy 6
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Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Lyre. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. The Armstrong Papers, Part II, P6/1470: further mortgage, 1 August 1791, catalogue page 6 · Anna-Maria Hajba; University of Limerick Library and Information Services, Special Collections
  3. Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
  4. An Avondhu Way lane near Lyre, County Cork illustration: based on a Country Lane by kevin higgins. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.