Knockaclare
Knockaclare is a townland in the civil parish of Kilfeighny, barony of Clanmaurice, Co. Kerry. Its name in Irish is Cnoc an Chláir.
- Area
- 322.7 ha
- 797 acres
- Land parcels
- 42
- registered freehold, median 5,379 m² (0.54 ha, 1.33 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockaclare, from 184 m² to 854,248 m² (85.42 ha, 211.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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 Knockaclare 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
12 Sept 2022Conditional
REPLACE 3 NO. 12M TIMBER POLES WITH AN 18M TELECOMMUNICATIONS MONOPOLE TOGETHER WITH ANTENAS, DISHES AND ASSOCIATED TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT SURROUNDED BY CHAIN LINK FENCING.
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22961
4 Dec 2020Conditional
(A) PART DEMOLITION OF EXISTING BUILDING (B) REFURBISH, EXTEND AND RENOVATE THE EXISTING BUILDING (C) USE THE COMPLETED BUILDING AS A LOCAL HERITAGE CENTRE/MUSEUM (D) CONSTRUCT A TREATMENT UNIT AND SAND POLISHING FILTER (E) CONSTRUCT A CAR PARKING AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. THE SUBJECT BUILDING IS LISTED AS A PROTECTED STRUCTURE WITH THE KERRY COUNTY COUNCIL DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2015-2021. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THE APPLICATION.
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 201172
19 Nov 2019Refused
(A) DEMOLISH AN OUTBUILDING, (B) CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (C) CARRY OUT RENOVATION WORKS TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, CONSISTING OF THE DEMOLITION OF SOME WALLS, ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO THE FRONT AND SIDES OF THE BUILDING, AND ALTERATIONS TO THE ROOF(S) OF THE DWELLING HOUSE, INCLUDING RAISING ITS HEIGHT, (D) CONSTRUCT A NEW ON-SITE WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM COMPRISING OF A MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT, INTERMITTENT FILTER AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND (E) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS ON OUR SITE
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 191178
27 Aug 2019N/a
(A) REFURBISH EXISTING GLEN SCHOOL AND EXTENSIONS TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING BUILDING (B) USE OF THE COMPLETED BUILDING AS A LOCAL HERITAGE CENTRE/MUSEUM ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS TO INCLUDE A TREATMENT UNIT AND SAND POLISHING FILTER AND ALSO CAR PARKING AREAS. THE BUILDING IS LISTED AS A PROTECTED STRUCTURE
Permission · Kerry County Council, 19906
25 Mar 2019Refused
(A) DEMOLISH AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ACCOMPANYING OUT BUILDING(S), (B) CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH A NEW ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM COMPRISING OF A MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT, INTERMITTENT FILTER AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND (C) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19302
9 Oct 2018Conditional
RETAIN (PREVIOUS REF. NO. 11/48) OF AN EXISTING DEVELOPMENT AT THIS SITE. THE DEVELOPMENT CONSISTS OF AN EXISTING 24 METRE HIGH TELECOMMUNICATIONS STRUCTURE, ANTENNAS, EQUIPMENT CONTAINER AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT WITHIN A FENCED COMPOUND AND ACCESS TRACK. THE DEVELOPMENT FORMS PART OF VODAFONE IRELAND LTD'S EXISTING GSM AND 3G BROADBAND TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK
Retention · Kerry County Council, 18967
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
- 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 Knockaclare.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockaclare.
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 Knockaclare, about 1 in 10 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 Knockaclare.
- 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 Knockaclare with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Knockaclare · Cnoc an Chláir
- Area
- 3,226,923 m² (322.69 ha, 797.39 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilfeighny, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmaurice
- Electoral division
- Kilfeighny, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 993 people lived in 372 households in the Kilfeighny electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Banemore, Braumaddra, Glanaderhig, Glashanacree, Lyracrumpane
- Placenames
- Knockaclare 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.