Knocknashammer

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknashammer, from 518 m² to 109,230 m² (10.92 ha, 26.99 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Knocknashammer 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.

• 30 Mar 2021Conditional

  for 1. the construction of a new two storey type dwelling house, 2. New vehicular site entrance onto a public roadway, 3. Installation of a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area, 4. Completion of all associated and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21179

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knocknashammer.

Recorded monuments

• CV022-029 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Marked on all OS eds. It has been concreted over and a manhole cover placed on top. It was circular (diam c. 4m) and was lined with a drystone wall (local information). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knocknashammer.

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Knocknashammer with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Knocknashammer · Cnoc na Seamar

Area

1,598,726 m² (159.87 ha, 395.05 acres)

Civil parish

Drumgoon, and its townlands

Barony

Clankee

Electoral division

Canningstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Canningstown electoral division: 543 people in 204 households; 95% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardmone, Ardmone West, Dooreagh, Drumacullion, Drutamon, Tievenanass

Placenames

Knocknashammer 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.