Knockaluskraun
Townland in the civil parish of Kilraghtis, barony of Bunratty Upper, Co. Clare; in Irish Cnoc an Loiscreáin
- Area
- 58.1 ha
- 144 acres
- Land parcels
- 13
- registered freehold, median 5,087 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockaluskraun, from 1,100 m² to 166,665 m² (16.67 ha, 41.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Knockaluskraun 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
22 Jan 2026Conditional
to construct a new dwelling house, on-site wastewater treatment system and all associated site works and services
Outline permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660019
22 Jan 2026Conditional
to construct a new dwelling house, on-site wastewater treatment system and all associated site works and services
Outline permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660020
22 Dec 2022Refused
to construct a new dwelling house, site entrance, access road, private on-site wastewater treatment system, private bored well and all associated site works and services
Outline permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 221162
22 Dec 2022Conditional
to construct a new dwelling house, site entrance, access road, private on-site wastewater treatment system, private bored well and all associated site works and services
Outline permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 221163
22 Dec 2022Refused
to construct a new dwelling house, site entrance, access road, private on-site wastewater treatment system, private bored well and all associated site works and services
Outline permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 221164
29 Jul 2021Conditional
to construct a dwelling house, site entrance, private garage, bored well and on-site waste water treatment system along with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 21805
12 Jul 2021Conditional
The development consists of the construction of an agricultural loose house and associated site works.
Permission · Clare County Council, 21724
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knockaluskraun.
Recorded monuments
- CL026-085 Ringfort - rath
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.
- CL026-086 Ringfort - rath
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.
- CL034-013 Ringfort - cashel
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 Knockaluskraun.
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
- About 1 in 5 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_636 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Knockaluskraun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Knockaluskraun · Cnoc an Loiscreáin
- Area
- 580,828 m² (58.08 ha, 143.53 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilraghtis, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bunratty Upper
- Electoral division
- Spancelhill, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Spancelhill electoral division: 725 people in 248 households; 93% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cappagh Beg, Cloonkerry, Kilvoydan South, Tullyvoghan
- Placenames
- Knockaluskraun 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.