Knocknahorna
Townland in the civil parish of Inver, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal; in Irish Cnoc na hEorna
- Area
- 49.2 ha
- 122 acres
- Land parcels
- 48
- registered freehold, median 4,403 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknahorna, from 66 m² to 90,688 m² (9.07 ha, 22.41 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 Knocknahorna 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
29 Nov 2017N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE, IMPROVEMENT OF EXISTING ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751798
1 Aug 2017N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751217
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 Knocknahorna.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knocknahorna.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knocknahorna.
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 moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knocknahorna.
- 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 Knocknahorna with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Knocknahorna · Cnoc na hEorna
- Area
- 491,767 m² (49.18 ha, 121.52 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inver, and its townlands
- Barony
- Banagh
- Electoral division
- Inver, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Inver electoral division: 795 people in 296 households; 86% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 13% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Brenter, Drumadart, Kilmacreddan, Tawnygorm, Tonregee
- Placenames
- Knocknahorna 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.