Knockaloaghan
Knockaloaghan is a townland in the civil parish of Inchicronan, barony of Bunratty Upper, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is Cnoc an Lócháin.
- Area
- 129.4 ha
- 320 acres
- Land parcels
- 50
- registered freehold, median 9,601 m² (0.96 ha, 2.37 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockaloaghan, from 238 m² to 205,746 m² (20.57 ha, 50.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Knockaloaghan 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
13 Oct 2023Conditional
to RETAIN and complete existing structure for use as a private dwelling house, including bored well, wastewater treatment system, entrance and ancillary site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 23528
2 Jun 2023Refused
to construct a replacement single storey dwellinghouse, bored well, wastewater treatment system, entrance, and demolish existing partially constructed dwelling along with all ancillary site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 23324
19 Aug 2022Refused
to construct a single storey dwelling house, entrance and access road, bored well, wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, and ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 22745
25 Apr 2019Conditional
A) Modify the internal layout and make changes to the elevations of the existing dwelling, B) Construct extension to the side of the dwelling, C) Construct garage, D) Relocate existing vehicular entrance and E) Replace existing septic tank with new effluent treatment system, all with associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 19324
19 Apr 2018Conditional
to construct a single dwelling house, garage, advanced wastewater treatment system and ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 18312
9 Apr 2018Conditional
on the Grant of Outline Permission ( Reference No. P17-872), for the following works; (A) Demolish existing dwelling, (B) Remove existing farm building, (C) Construct a replacement dwelling house and garage, (D) Relocate existing vehicular entrance and (E) Replace existing septic tank, with new effluent treatment system, all with associated site works
Permission consequent, 1 home · Clare County Council, 18276
27 Nov 2017Conditional
to construct a single dwelling house with garage, septic tank and percolation area, bored well, all associated site works and connections to services and new entrance from public road
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 17915
16 Nov 2017Conditional
for the following works: (A) Demolish existing dwelling, (B) Remove existing farm building, (C) Construct a replacement dwelling house and garage, (D) Relocate existing vehicular entrance and (E) Replace existing septic tank with new effluent treatment system, all with associated site works
Outline permission · Clare County Council, 17872
24 Jul 2017Conditional
for development which will consist of a revised dwellng house design to that previously granted under Planning Reference P16-774
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 17569
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
- Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA 004168
- Natural Heritage Area: Oysterman'S Marsh NHA 002439
Recorded monuments
- CL026-152 Barrow - ring-barrow
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockaloaghan.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Knockaloaghan, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knockaloaghan.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Knockaloaghan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Knockaloaghan · Cnoc an Lócháin
- Area
- 1,294,040 m² (129.4 ha, 319.76 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inchicronan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bunratty Upper
- Electoral division
- Toberbreeda, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 185 people lived in 65 households in the Toberbreeda electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynagranagh, Ballyscanlan, Cappafeean, Derryvet, Drumbonniv, Knockreddan, Sunnagh
- Placenames
- Knockaloaghan 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.