Knockariddera
Townland in the civil parish of Castleisland, barony of Trughanacmy, Co. Kerry; in Irish Cnoc an Ridire
- Area
- 710.8 ha
- 1,756 acres
- Land parcels
- 125
- registered freehold, median 8,370 m² (0.84 ha, 2.07 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
125 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockariddera, from 55 m² to 719,857 m² (71.99 ha, 177.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 40 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 Knockariddera 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
15 Jun 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, FRONT BOUNDARY ENTRANCE WALLS, MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER SYSTEM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22629
8 Jul 2021Conditional
(1) PERMISSION TO RETAIN (A) TWO NUMBER ROOFLIGHTS TO REAR OF DWELING (B) STONE FINISH TO PART OF FRONT FACADE OF DWELLING (C) ENTRANCE AND FRONT BOUNDARY BLOCK WALL AND (D) POSITION OF ENTRANCE TO SITE (2) PLANNING PERMISSION FOR (A) ONE NUMBER ROOFLIGHT TO FRONT OF EXISTING DWELLING (B) ERECTION OF CONSERVATORY TO SIDE OF DWELILNG (C) DEMOLITION OF CHIMNEY TO FRONT OF DWELLING AND (D) ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21769
26 Sept 2017Conditional
INSTALL A 36M FREE STANDING MULTI-USER STRUCTURE CARRYING TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT. THE PROPOSED TOWER IS A REPLACEMENT FOR THE EXISTING 33M PERMITTED STRUCTURE (PL 08/206609) WHICH WILL BE DECOMMISSIONED AND REMOVED FROM SITE. THE IN SI- TU TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT TO BE TRANSFERRED POST CONSTRUCTION. PROVISION HAS ALSO BEEN MADE FOR FUTURE CO-LOCATION AS REQUIRED. PERMISSION IS ALSO SOUGHT FOR THE EXPANSION OF THE EXISTING COMPOUND WITH ADDITIONAL EXCHANGE CONTAINERS ENCLOSED WITHIN PALISADE FENCING. RETENTION PERMISSION IS ALSO SOUGHT FOR THE RADIO SATELLITE DISH WHICH WILL BE TRANSFERRED TO THE NEW STRUCTURE, POST CONSTRUCTION. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONTINUE TO PROVIDE ACCOMMODATION TO VODAFONE IN THE PROVISION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES RIPPLECOM BROADBAND, SPIRIT FM AND THE CIVIL DEFENCE
Permission · Kerry County Council, 17947
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 Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161
- Natural Heritage Area: Knockatarriv/Knockariddera Bogs NHA 002448
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockariddera.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockariddera.
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 high, 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 Knockariddera.
- 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 Knockariddera with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Knockariddera · Cnoc an Ridire
- Area
- 7,107,836 m² (710.78 ha, 1,756.38 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castleisland, and its townlands
- Barony
- Trughanacmy
- Electoral division
- Lackabaun, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Lackabaun electoral division: 435 people in 164 households; 90% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Broughane, Doolaig North, Dromadda More, Lackabaun, Muingvautia, Tullagubbeen
- Placenames
- Knockariddera 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.