Knockatunna

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockatunna, from 69 m² to 403,199 m² (40.32 ha, 99.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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 Knockatunna 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.

• 21 Nov 2025Conditional

  permission consequent on the grant of outline permission (Reference No. P25-10) to construct a dwelling house and garage, with effluent treatment system, and to make alterations to the agricultural entrance to access the dwelling, all with associated site works

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560719

• 17 Jul 2025Conditional

  to construct extensions to the side and front of an existing derelict dwelling house along with alterations/renovations to the existing house and the construction of a domestic garage and a new wastewater treatment system along with ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560443

• 17 Jan 2025Conditional

  of the widening of the existing agricultural entrance and for OUTLINE PERMISSION to construct a dwelling house and garage, with effluent treatment system, and to make alterations to the agricultural entrance to access the dwelling, all with associated site works

  Retention · Clare County Council, 2510

• 18 Oct 2024Refused

  to construct a dwelling house and garage, with effluent treatment system new entrance from public road, and all associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 24338

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 Knockatunna.

Recorded monuments

• CL040-017 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.

• CL040-018 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 Knockatunna.

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 high, 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 Knockatunna.

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 Knockatunna with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Knockatunna · Cnoc an tSonnaigh

Area

3,452,871 m² (345.29 ha, 853.22 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmaley, 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

Beneden, Boolybrien, Boolynagleragh, Cahermore, Kyleatunna, Rathcrony

Placenames

Knockatunna 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.