Knockroe
Townland in the civil parish of Killeely, barony of Bunratty Lower, Co. Clare; in Irish An Cnoc Rua
- Area
- 44.5 ha
- 110 acres
- Land parcels
- 50
- registered freehold, median 3,139 m² (0.31 ha, 0.78 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockroe, from 49 m² to 126,522 m² (12.65 ha, 31.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Knockroe 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
28 Sept 2022Conditional
to construct a new two storey four-bedroom dwelling house, together with a detached garage, site entrance and on-site wastewater treatment system along with all other associated site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 22872
22 Apr 2020N/a
to reconstruct and restore existing derelict dwelling house and construct extension to same, garage, waste water treatment system, percolation area, entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 20267
24 Oct 2018Conditional
to RETAIN an existing detached garage, adjacent to the existing dwelling, along with ancillary site works
Retention · Clare County Council, 18844
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knockroe.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockroe.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockroe.
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 5 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; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_904 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Knockroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Knockroe · An Cnoc Rua
- Area
- 444,905 m² (44.49 ha, 109.94 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killeely, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bunratty Lower
- Electoral division
- Killeely, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killeely electoral division: 900 people in 289 households; 79% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Derry More, Derrybeg, Moneennagliggin South, Punchbowl, Stonepark
- Placenames
- Knockroe 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.