Knockaninaun

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockaninaun, from 227 m² to 153,257 m² (15.33 ha, 37.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Knockaninaun 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.

• 9 Apr 2026Conditional

  of the construction of a 58m x 38m sand arena, associated fencing, retaining walls and the raising and lowering of existing ground levels including ancillary site works

  Retention · Clare County Council, 2660238

• 16 Sept 2025N/a

  of the construction of hay store, lunging arena, stores and veterinary store including ancillary site works

  Retention · Clare County Council, 2560562

• 28 Aug 2025Conditional

  of alterations from previously granted Planning Ref: 02/1810, including relocation of the site entrance and alterations to the ancillary entrance walls, pillars and gates and alterations to the front elevation of the dwelling, along with all associated site works and services

  Retention · Clare County Council, 2560523

• 28 Apr 2025Conditional

  for the construction of an extension to rear of existing indoor arena (Granted under Planning Reference P18/1005) to comprise of Machinery and Equipment Store including ancillary site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 2560223

• 11 Jul 2019Conditional

  to construct a hay & machinery store to rear of existing sand arena including ancillary site works.

  Permission · Clare County Council, 19576

• 7 Dec 2018Conditional

  for the construction of an extension to existing stables to comprise of indoor arena to rear of existing stables with link building to same including ancillary site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 181005

• 5 Nov 2018N/a

  for the construction of an extension to existing stables to comprise of indoor arena to rear of existing stables with link building to same including ancillary site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 18885

• 2 May 2017Conditional

  for development which will consist of a 3 bay double slatted house with centre passage, calving creep, underground tanking system and associated site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 17324

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 Knockaninaun.

Recorded monuments

• CL041-032 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.

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 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_457 (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.

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

Name

Knockaninaun · Cnoc an Eidhneáin

Area

1,101,099 m² (110.11 ha, 272.09 acres)

Civil parish

Drumcliff, and its townlands

Barony

Islands

Electoral division

Kilcloher, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilcloher electoral division: 738 people in 239 households; 93% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barnanageeha, Cappagarraun, Drumadrehid, Inch More, Inchbeg, Kilmoraun, Knock, Mahonburgh, Rathkerry

Placenames

Knockaninaun 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.