Knockbeha
Townland in the civil parish of Feakle, barony of Tulla Upper, Co. Clare; in Irish An Cnoc Beitheach
- Area
- 358.8 ha
- 887 acres
- Land parcels
- 88
- registered freehold, median 17,612 m² (1.76 ha, 4.35 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
88 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockbeha, from 19 m² to 395,498 m² (39.55 ha, 97.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Knockbeha 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
25 Jul 2024Conditional
for the following development: to (a) construct a first-floor extension over part of the existing dwelling house; (b) elevational changes to the existing house; (c) upgrade existing wastewater treatment system; (d) all associated site works and services
Permission · Clare County Council, 2460347
9 Nov 2020Conditional
for extending the existing dwellinghouse and reconstructing and extending the existing barn to an art studio
Permission · Clare County Council, 20834
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Graney Woods 001714
Recorded monuments
- CL020-005 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
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
- Bunshoon Bridge, bridge, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Five-arch cut-stone road bridge over river Graney, built c. 1820, with cut-stone voussoirs, cutwaters and buttresses. Renovated, c. 1960, with one arch remodelled.
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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knockbeha.
- 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 Knockbeha with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Knockbeha · An Cnoc Beitheach
- Area
- 3,587,978 m² (358.8 ha, 886.61 acres)
- Civil parish
- Feakle, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tulla Upper
- Electoral division
- Corlea, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Caher (Power), Corracloon More, Corrakyle, Derrynagittagh (Naughton), Derrynagittagh (Purcell), Flagmount, Knockbeha Mountain, Pollatrumpa
- Placenames
- Knockbeha 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.