Lyre
Lyre is a townland and small village in the civil parish of Clonmeen, barony of Duhallow, northwest County Cork, Ireland. It is approximately 3 km from the village of Nad.- Type: Hamlet with 163 residents
- Description: townland in Tincoora, County Cork, Ireland
- Also known as: “An Ladhar” and “Lyre, County Cork”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Hillary.
Mount Hillary
Peak
Mount Hillary is a mountain located in north County Cork. It is 391m high. Mount Hillary is situated 3½ km northeast of Lyre.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nad and Banteer.
Nad
Village
Photo: Jonathan Thacker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Nad or Nadd is a small village in the south-east of the barony of Duhallow, in north County Cork, Ireland. It is located on the Kanturk to Cork route in the foothills of the Boggeragh Mountains, at the confluence of the Nadd and Glen Rivers.
Banteer
Village
Photo: Jonathan Thacker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Banteer is a village in north County Cork, Ireland located in the civil parish of Clonmeen in the historic barony of Duhallow. It is near the town of Mallow. Banteer is within the Cork North-West Dáil constituency. Banteer is situated 6 km north of Lyre.
Lombardstown
Village
Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lombardstown is a village 9 kilometres west of the town of Mallow in County Cork, Ireland. It takes its name from the Lombard family who came to Ireland from Lombardy in Northern Italy in the Middle Ages and became rich and prominent, with branches of the family in Waterford and Cork. Lombardstown is situated 7 km northeast of Lyre.
Lyre
- Categories: human settlement, townland, and locality
- Location: County Cork, Munster, Southwest Ireland, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.08086° or 52° 4′ 51″ northLongitude
-8.86232° or 8° 51′ 44″ westPopulation
163Elevation
253 metres (830 feet)Open location code
9C4H34JQ+83OpenStreetMap ID
node 4296621294OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
3292191Wikidata ID
Q3782415
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Turkish—“Lyre” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Lyre”
- Bulgarian: “Лйре”
- Cebuano: “Lyre”
- Dutch: “Lyre”
- Irish: “An Ladhar”
- Spanish: “Lyre”
- Swedish: “Lyre”
- Turkish: “Lyre”
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