# Knockbrack Upper, Co. Clare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kiltenanlea, barony of Tulla Lower, Co. Clare; in Irish An Cnoc Breac Uachtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 622,897 m² (62.29 ha, 153.92 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 10,242 m² (1.02 ha, 2.53 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kiltenanlea, https://everytownland.com/clare/parish/kiltenanlea.md - Barony: Tulla Lower - Electoral division: Kiltenanlea, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,987 people lived in 660 households in the Kiltenanlea electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Clare, https://everytownland.com/clare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/7502 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 31619 - Centre: latitude 52.736354, longitude -8.566134 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockbrack Upper, from 1,716 m² to 107,699 m² (10.77 ha, 26.61 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1432076: 107,699 m² (10.77 ha, 26.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1432076.md - Parcel 5104221: 103,440 m² (10.34 ha, 25.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5104221.md - Parcel 1431164: 91,792 m² (9.18 ha, 22.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1431164.md - Parcel 1515318: 62,882 m² (6.29 ha, 15.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1515318.md - Parcel 1442033: 43,668 m² (4.37 ha, 10.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1442033.md - Parcel 1443922: 35,910 m² (3.59 ha, 8.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1443922.md - Parcel 1469156: 33,068 m² (3.31 ha, 8.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1469156.md - Parcel 1496255: 27,425 m² (2.74 ha, 6.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1496255.md - Parcel 1482776: 21,656 m² (2.17 ha, 5.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1482776.md - Parcel 1515319: 21,604 m² (2.16 ha, 5.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1515319.md - Parcel 5985011: 14,043 m² (1.4 ha, 3.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5985011.md - Parcel 1430599: 11,759 m² (1.18 ha, 2.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1430599.md - Parcel 1435517: 8,724 m² (0.87 ha, 2.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1435517.md - Parcel 1517178: 7,341 m² (0.73 ha, 1.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1517178.md - Parcel 1517631: 5,079 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1517631.md - Parcel 1466164: 4,958 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1466164.md - Parcel 1499109: 4,797 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1499109.md - Parcel 1444451: 3,962 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1444451.md - Parcel 1441405: 2,368 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1441405.md - Parcel 1472896: 2,213 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1472896.md - Parcel 2427982: 2,181 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2427982.md - Parcel 5552979: 2,012 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5552979.md - Parcel 1463713: 1,951 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1463713.md - Parcel 1515317: 1,716 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1515317.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Knockbrack Upper in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 4 Oct 2024, Clare County Council 2460485: Conditional. Permission. a 10-year planning permission for a solar array. The development will consist of c. 330,000 m2 of solar panels on ground mounted frames, 13 no. single storey control cabins with associated electrical transformer units and hardstand areas, 2 no. ring main units, underground cabling within the solar array site and within the R471 public road to connect solar array field parcels, security fencing, internal CCTV, access tracks (upgrade of existing and new), upgrade to 1 no. existing agricultural field entrance and creation of 2 no. new entrances on the R471 and 1 no. new entrance on the L70382, 2 no. temporary construction compounds (including site offices and welfare facilities), landscaping and all associated ancillary apparatus and development works. The proposed development provides for minor modifications to the solar array permitted under Clare County Council Reference P22/591 / An Bord Pleanála Reference ABP-316043-23. These modifications comprise the omission of 1 no. single storey control cabin and associated electrical transformer unit, omission of solar panels and access track, and reconfiguration of internal cabling. The solar array will connect to the national grid and will have an operational lifespan of 40 years. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared and will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460485/0 - 13 Mar 2020, Clare County Council 20183: Conditional. Permission. to construct a slatted unit with an underground slurry storage tank for housing livestock. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/20183/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knockbrack Upper. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockbrack Upper. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockbrack Upper. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Knockbrack Upper, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_993, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_993.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/clare/knockbrack-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/clare/knockbrack-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/clare/knockbrack-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Knockbrack Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare: https://everytownland.com/clare.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballybrack: https://everytownland.com/clare/ballybrack.md - Dromintobin North: https://everytownland.com/clare/dromintobin-north.md - Dromintobin South: https://everytownland.com/clare/dromintobin-south.md - Knockbrack Lower: https://everytownland.com/clare/knockbrack-lower.md - Monaskeha: https://everytownland.com/clare/monaskeha.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/clare/knockbrack-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/clare/knockbrack-upper