Knopoge

41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knopoge, from 231 m² to 229,530 m² (22.95 ha, 56.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Knopoge 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.

• 4 Aug 2025Conditional

  for the construction a dwellinghouse and associated site works including vehicular entrance and waste water treatment system.

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560482

• 23 Apr 2018Conditional

  for development which will consist of the construction of a Loose House and associated site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 18325

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 Knopoge.

Recorded monuments

• CL042-048001 Enclosure
  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.

• CL042-085 Standing stone
  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.

• CL042-086 Castle - tower house
  Description

  See attached document with details from Risteárd Ua Cróinín and Martin Breen, The Castles and Tower-houses of Co. Clare (unpublished report). Uploaded courtesy of R. Ua Cróinín and M. Breen. Date of upload: 15 December 2014

• CL042-087 Burial ground
  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.

• CL042-088 Standing stone
  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.

• CL042-089 Stone row
  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.

• CL042-091 Barrow - embanked barrow
  Description

  This site is located east of Knappogue Castle in a large field used for pasture immediately beside the Sixmilebridge-Ennis road. The surface of the field in which the site is located is uneven with long curvilinear natural banks of earth distributed throughout. The site is depicted as a hachured plan on the OS 6-inch-sheets. The site which overlooks the gently sloping ground to the south consists of a broad ditchless bank defining a roughly level subcircular area 29m in diameter. The bank stands up to 0.5m above the interior of the site and measures on average 8.7m wide. A farm gate is located just south of the enclosure leading onto the road. The remains of a byre and some other small structures are built on the bank at the south. No features were discernible on the interior of the site and there were no indications of an original entrance. Compiled by Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 14/03/2012

• CL042-092 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume I. County Clare. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1961) Date of upload: 30 December 2011

• CL042-176 Fulacht fia
  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.

• CL042-177 Standing stone
  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

• Knappogue Castle, castle/fortified house, 1460–1470 · National interest
  Description

  Freestanding square-plan four-bay three-stage tower house with base batter, built c. 1465. Seven-bay single-storey wing with two-bay advanced bay, square-plan single-bay three-stage tower to left and two-bay two-storey bay to right, remodelled 1855 by architects James Pain (1779-1877) and his brother George Richard. Renovated, 1969, to accommodate use as restaurant and private residence. Pitched roof with castellations and machicolated to tower. Rubble stone walls to tower. Rock-faced cut-stone to extensions with Masonic symbols to keystones and carved plaques. Glazed gun loops and grouped narrow openings to tower. Cut-stone architraves with label mouldings and timber sliding sash windows to extensions. Retaining interior features. Detached two-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c. 1855. Limestone cut-stone pointed arch gateway with battlemented parapet having machicolation.

• Knappogue Castle, gates/railings/walls, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway, built c. 1840, comprising pair of tapered cut-limestone panelled piers with inscriptions and carved hands, having moulded cornice, domed cappings and cast-iron gates. Pier inscriptions act as mile stones. Set in rubble stone boundary walls with square-headed pedestrian gateway to left.

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 5 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 Knopoge.

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

Name

Knopoge · Cnapóg

Area

2,007,140 m² (200.71 ha, 495.98 acres)

Civil parish

Quin, and its townlands

Barony

Bunratty Upper

Electoral division

Quin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Quin electoral division: 1,524 people in 533 households; 79% of households own their home; 53% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Applefort, Ballykilty, Ballymarkahan, Finlough, Kilnacrandy, Kilnacrandy, Mausnarylaan, Snugborough

Placenames

Knopoge 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.