Knockachur

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockachur, from 73 m² to 1,108,262 m² (110.83 ha, 273.86 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Knockachur 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 Dec 2024Conditional

  Retention Permission to retain the 2 no. sheds as constructed on site and Planning Permission to (a) extend and renovate the existing dwelling (b) decommission the existing septic tank and percolation area (c) install a new septic tank and percolation area (d) construct a new domestic shed and (e) all associated site works

  Retention, 2 homes · Kerry County Council, 2460944

• 7 May 2021Conditional

  RETAIN EXISTING TELECOMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT STRUCTURE PERVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER LOCAL AUTHORITY REF NO. 14/508 TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED GROUND EQUIPMENT CONTAINERS AND SECURITY FENCING

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 21493

• 25 Mar 2021N/a

  RETENTION PERMISSION OF AN EXISTING TELECOMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT STRUCTURE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER LOCAL AUTHORITY REF NO 0973 (AN BORD PLEANALA REFERENCE PL 08.233353) TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED GROUND EQUIPTMENT CONTAINERS AND SECURITY FENCING

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 21315

• 19 Jan 2021Conditional

  (A) UNDERGROUND SLATTED TANK (B) PERMISSION FOR DEMOLITION OF EXISTING HAY BARN AND MILKING PARLOUR (C) CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL BUILDING TO INCLUDE CUBICLES AND STRAW BEDDING AREA (D) CONSTRUCTION OF A MILKING PARLOUR, DAIRY AND ANCILLARY ROOMS, LIVESTOCK WAITING YARD, LIVESTOCK HANDLING FACILITIES WITH UNDERGROUND FLOW CHANNEL AND AN UNDERGROUND SOILED WATER TANK (E) ERECTION OF A MEAL BIN AT WATER STORAGE TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2128

• 15 Mar 2017Conditional

  RETENTION PERMISSION TO RETAIN AND COMPLETE DWELLINGHOUSE AND PERMISSION TO INSTALL AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT TANK AND POLISHING FILTER

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17221

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
• Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockachur.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockachur.

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

At the centre of the townland of Knockachur, 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 high, 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 Knockachur.

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.

No address of the register names Knockachur with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Knockachur · Cnoc an Choir

Area

2,919,172 m² (291.92 ha, 721.34 acres)

Civil parish

Ballincuslane, and its townlands

Barony

Trughanacmy

Electoral division

Kilmurry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

304 people lived in 120 households in the Kilmurry electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Glanlarehan, Lackanoneen, Lackbrooder, Leamydoody, Lyre, Meenleitrim South, Tooreenagowan

Placenames

Knockachur 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.