Knocknamucky
Knocknamucky is a townland in the civil parish of Inchicronan, barony of Bunratty Upper, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is Cnoc na Muice.
- Area
- 88.1 ha
- 218 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 17,305 m² (1.73 ha, 4.28 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknamucky, from 31 m² to 287,594 m² (28.76 ha, 71.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Knocknamucky 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
2 Apr 2026Conditional
for refurbishment and alterations, and construction of an extension to an existing dwelling house along with all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660211
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Inchicronan Lough 000038
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knocknamucky.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knocknamucky.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Knocknamucky, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knocknamucky.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Knocknamucky with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Knocknamucky · Cnoc na Muice
- Area
- 880,968 m² (88.1 ha, 217.69 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inchicronan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bunratty Upper
- Electoral division
- Toberbreeda, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 185 people lived in 65 households in the Toberbreeda electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyogan, Ballyscanlan, Cappafeean, Cloonawillin, Drumgloon
- Placenames
- Knocknamucky 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.