Knockaunmore

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockaunmore, from 1,671 m² to 392,643 m² (39.26 ha, 97.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• G4Active Open Space (Active open space)
  Listowel Municipal District Local Area Plan 2020-2026, Kerry · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 2 Sept 2020Refused

  IMPORT INERT SOIL AND SUBSOIL FROM ROAD REPAIRS TO THE R556 AND USE IT TO INFILL AN OLD DISUSED QUARRY AND RECLAIM AND RESEED SAME WHEN FILL IS COMPLETE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 20798

• 3 Mar 2020Conditional

  INSTALLATION OF A CATTLE UNDERPASS, SOILED WATER STORAGE TANK AND ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 20202

• 22 Mar 2017Refused

  BUILD A PRIVATE SINGLE STOREY DWELLING WITH ATTIC ACCOMMODATION AND GARAGE ATTACHED, SERVED WITH SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA, ALSO TO MODIFY THE JUNCTION OF THE EXISTING ACCESS ROAD WITH THE PUBLIC ROAD

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17245

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 Knockaunmore.

Recorded monuments

• KE021-053001 Religious house - Cistercian monks
  Description

  St. Mary's monastery of Abbeydorney (Abbey of O'Dorney/ Mainistir Ó dTorna) or Kyrieleyson is situated half a mile NE of Abbeydorney village, in the parish of O'Dorney, Diocese of Ardfert (Kerry), Barony of Clanmaurice. This Cistercian Monastery of Kyrie Eleison [Greek word for "Lord have mercy"] (Uí Thorna, a local sept whose tuath was here and who with another sept, the Uí Fhlannáin, gave their name to the rural deanery of Othorna and Offlanan) was founded in 1154, as a daughter house of Monasteranenagh, Co. Limerick [LI031-050004-] possibly under the influence or patronage of King Turlough O'Brien of Thomond (O'Connell and Costello 1958, 18). Abbeydorney was a sister house of Mellifont [LH023-007002-]. The first abbot of Mellifont, Christian O'Conairce, who afterwards became bishop of Lismore, resigned and retired into O'Dorney monastery about 1179, where he died in 1186 (O'Connell and Costello 1958, 18). In 1227 the abbot was deposed for being involved in the conspiracy of Mellifont (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 123). Abbot Thomas, a son of Maurice Lord Kerry, who died c. 1303, was also abbot of Fermoy (CO035-024----); Aeneas O'Cormac was abbot in 1410, and Gerald, a son of Patrick Lord Kerry was abbot perhaps c. 1420 (ibid.). The 1302-06 Ecclesiastical Taxation of the Diocese of Ardfert, listed the 'Deanery of Othorna [O'Dorney] and Offlannan' in which the Cistercian monastery stood (Cal. Doc. Ire. Vol. 5, 296). This taxation recorded that the 'Revenue of the house of Kiriel of the order of Cistercians. Their spirituals are taxed among the churches of which they are rectors' had an annual value of £3 13s. 4d. with the tithe valued at 7s. 4d. (Cal. doc. Ire. Vol. 5, 298). In 1307 the following account was given at the court of Ardfert regarding the inheritance of the Fitzmaurice estate belonging to second baron of Kerry, Maurice of Molahiffe [KE048-039----], Co. Kerry; ‘The Jurors say that Maurice son of Thomas, lying in his death bed, at Moyflayth [Maigh Fhlaithimh/Molahiffe], on Wednesday before Easter, had in mind to promote his younger son's, born of Sibilla his last wife, and to give them all lands which he had of his own acquisition, and he ordained that Gerald his son should have all lands of his own acquisition of Vyaille [Beal Castle KE002-001001-]. And that he should know this of the assent of Nicholas, his son and heir, he sent by the Abbot of Kyryeleyson [Abbeydorney], and a friar minor, who were with Maurice in his sickness, to Nicholas, who then was at Moyflayth, that he would give his assent to the gift, and do this by his letters patent, and by taking his oath. And the Abbot and friar minor returned to Maurice asserting that Nicholas would do fully what he had sent them to ask of him’ (Cal. justic. rolls, Ire. Edw. I, 422). In 1472 the taxation of the tithes of the Diocese of Ardfert listed the 'monasteriii Beatae Mariae de Kyrieleyson Cisterciensis ordinis' (Monastery of St Mary of Kyrieleyson Cistercian Order) where Philip Stack, archdeacon of Ardfert was promoted to hold St Mary's monastery which had been held by Edmund Fitzmaurice who had detained the Cistercian abbey of O'Dorney (B.M. de Kyrieleyson) for between fight and fourteen years without any title' (O'Connell and Costello 1958, 18). In 1475 a papal latter was sent to the 'abbot of St. Mary's, Odorney (de Kyrieleyson)' and 'Thomas [son] of John de Geraldinis, a canon of Ardfert regarding a petition sent by a priest of the diocese of Ardfert, Thomas Ykealachyr (Ó Céileachair/ O'Kelleher) regarding the vacancies of the rectories of the parish churches of Tralee (KE029-119002-) and Annagh (KE038-003001-) (Cal. papal letters Vol. 1 3, 455). In 1492 the taxation records referred to Maurice Fitzmaurice and the monastery of 'Beatae Mariae de Kyrie-eleison alias O'Dorney, et vicariarum de Kyllhyn [Killahan Church KE015-108001-] ac de Maghoflahymh [Molahiffe Church KE048-036001-] parrochialium ecclesiarum Artfertensis diocesis' (O'Connell and Costello 1958, 38). Killahan (Cill-Laithin in Tonaknock) in the barony of Clanmaurice which adjoined O'Dorney and seems from the present annate to have been impropriate to the Cistercian abbey there. The parish appears as Killaguyn in the Taxation List of 1302 in the deanery of Othorna and Offlannan, when the Hospitallers were rectors (ibid.). The abbot of Abbeydorney was a lord in parliament; the abbey being very rich, Edmund Lord Kerry was created Baron of Odorney and Viscount Kilmaule in 1537, when he was granted Abbeydorney and other monasteries (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 123). In 1579 the dissolved monastic estate was leased by the Crown to Gerald, earl of Desmond which included; 'the site of the abbey of Odorney alias our lady abbey of Kyrieleizon, co. Kerry, the lands of Clonecan, Royrke, Dromyconnygemyne, Aykrye, and Ballyusine, Boherroe, Lackymore, Lackybege, and Clonenymetaughe, and Ballybromane, co. Kerry, the rectory of Odornye, extending to the foregoing lands, except Ballybromane, the rectory of Molahyffe, same co. To hold for 21 years; rent £8 13s. Maintaining two English horsemen. Not to alien without license, and not to levy coyne or livery. The earl to give surety to the president of Munster for payment of the rent' (Nicholls 1994, 373). Two years later, in 1581 the Crown granted a 21 year lease to John Zouche of the same lands, which included the 'the site of the abbey of Odorney alias our lady of Kirieleizon, co. Kerry' (ibid. 520). In 1589 the same lands which included the 'site of the abbey of Odorney alias our lady abbey of Kyryleison' were granted by the Crown on a 40 year lease to John Champen (ibid., 77). In 1597, Queen Elizabeth granted the 'provost and fellows of the college of the Holy Trinity by Dublin', lands which included 'parcel of the lands of the abbey of Odorney alias Kirialeison, in said co.' (ibid., 296, 299). In 1604 King James I granted William Taaffe of County Louth lands which included; 'The site, ambit and precinct of the late abbey of Odorney, otherwise called our Lady's Abbaye de Kerielizon, containing one church, two church yards, with other houses and buildings, and arable 2s, within the said site-one water mill now waste in Cloghean, Royrke, Dromycounygenyn, Moneacrie and Ballyusene, arable, moore and pasture 60a, in Boherroe or Boherr, arable 12a, bog and pasture 8a, in Lackimore, Lackibegg and Clonenymaeateagh, arable 40a, bog and pasture 40a, in Ballybromaine, arable 30a, the rectory, church or chapel of Odorney extending in the towns and fields of Clonycan, Roircke, &c. as above, except Ballybromaine, the rectory, church or chapel of Molahiffe, with all tithes, &c. to the same belonging, except those appertaining to the vicar or curate; demised, 22 Feb. 31st Eliz. in reversion to John Champen [Champion/Chapman of Dingle], gent. for 40 years, to commence after the determination of a former lease granted 14 Sept. 23rd Eliz. to John Zouche esq. for 21 years at £1 13s 0d.' (Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Jas I, 2). In 1614 King James I. issued a royal pardon to 'Peter or Peirce Purcell Fitz-Morice of Monaster de Odorney' (ibid., 267). In 1615, the Royal Visitation of the Diocese of Ardfert listed 'The Abbey of oDorney' whose patron was a 'Mr. Piers Crosby' (Murphy 1915, 189). A lease in the Crosbie papers described the monastic remains of Abbeydorney as consisting of ‘One Chancel, one Church Yard, one Steeple, one Cloister, with divers Doctors' Chambers, and other chambers, built with lime and stone. One Water-Mill [KEO21-053005-], with Course of Water, the Town of Odorney, consisting of twenty–four Tenaments and Gardens, ten plough lands of one hundred and twenty acres Arable, with the Parsonages, Rectories, and Tythes of Odorney, Molahiffe, Dysert in Clan-Maurice, Aglesh-na-Mannah, and the moiety of the parsonage, Rectory, and Tythes of Moglagh, all came first to the Crosbie family’ (Rowan 1854, 431). John Champion (Chapman) of Dingle conveyed all his rights to Abbeydorne

• KE021-053002 Graveyard
  Description

  Abbeydorney Monastery (in ruins) is situated half a mile NE of Abbeydorney village. On the 1841 ed. OSi 6-inch map the Cistercian monastery (KE021-053001-) is depicted standing on the NE boundary of a roughly circular-shaped graveyard (diam. c. 60m) accessed by a laneway at SW. The shape of the graveyard was changed when it was enclosed by the present wall enclosing a rectangular-shaped graveyard (dims. c. 59m NW-SE x 82m NE-SW) as shown on the 1892 ed. OSi 25-inch map. The centre of the present graveyard mainly occupies the footprint of the cloister of the Cistercian monastery with some of the tombs constructed with architectural fragments of the cloister and abbey. In recent times the graveyard has been extended to the E and now forms a large rectangular shaped graveyard (dims. c. 59m NW-SE x 140m NE-SW) with monastery at W angle of graveyard. According to local tradition, SE of this abbey lies an earlier graveyard and possibly a church (KE021-053003-). The area was known as Oilean na nGé (island of the geese) (Pierse 1976, 19). Revd. Power (1929, 92) recorded the following details about this tradition; 'An aged Irish-speaking native of the locality pointed out the alleged site three hundred yards or so to south-east of the abbey-of an earlier graveyard and, presumably, church. This is, or was, known as Oilean-na-nGé, on the townland of Móinteáin-na-nGé [Montanagay]. The spot is low-lying and wet and altogether an unlikely place for either church or graveyard'. After changing hands several times, the monastery was finally bought in 1601 by one of the Crosbie family for £130. He in turn sold it to David Crosbie of Ardfert in 1638. The property at that time consisted of '1 church [KE021-053001-], 2 churchyards [KE021-053002-], 2 acres arable, 1 water-mill (KEO21-053005-) and 170 acres in the parish' (Pierse 1976, 27). This reference suggests that there were 2 churchyards at Abbeydorney, the precise location of the second churchyard has not been identified although it may have been the churchyard referred to locally as being located in the townland of Montanagay. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 968. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 26 July 2022

• KE021-053006 Tomb - unclassified
  Description

  Revd. Power (1929, 92) recorded that; 'Richard Hitchcock (Kilkenny Archaeological Journal, vol. II. p. 131.) quotes the following inscription from a tombstone here : Ambrosius Piers, vic. Gen. Dioces. Ardfert. Hunc tumulum sibi fieri fecit. Anno 1587." The Rev. B. Rowan, D.D., Belmont, Tralee, sent Hitchcock a report about this inscription in which he stated that 'I send you an inscription from Abbey-dorney church more ancient than any you have given: AMBROSIUS PIERS. VIC. GEN. DIOCES. ARDFERT HUNC TUMULUM SIBI FIERI FECIT, ANNO 1587' (Hitchcock 1852, 131). An alternative reading of this inscription and its location is described by John O'Donovan in 1841 as follows; 'There is a tomb erected in the north wall near the north-east corner but there is no inscription to show to whom it was erected On a small limestone flag lying opposite it is the following inscription in Roman capitals, but this inscription does not appear to be as ancient as the tomb. Ambrosius Piers Vic: G. Dioces: Ardfert hunc tumulum sibi fieri curavit. Anno 1687' (O'Donovan 1983, 37). The precise location of this 16th century tomb within the NE angle of Abbeydorney monastery (KE021-053001-) has not been located. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 26 July 2022

• KE021-053007 Exhibitionist figure
  Description

  Abbeydorney Monastery (in ruins) is situated half a mile NE of Abbeydorney village. On the 1841 ed. OSi 6-inch map the Cistercian monastery (KE021-053001-) is depicted standing on the NE boundary of a roughly circular-shaped graveyard (KE021-053002-) accessed by a laneway at SW. The centre of the present graveyard mainly occupies the footprint of the cloister of the Cistercian monastery with some of the tombs constructed with architectural fragments of the cloister and abbey. In recent times the graveyard has been extended to the E and now forms a large rectangular shaped graveyard with monastery at W angle of graveyard. Located immediately S of the SE angle of the church is the 19th century burial vault of the King family which has been built with architectural fragments of the Cistercian abbey. Above the entrance to the vault there is a carved male figure within a sunken roundel type background with crudely carved head with large flat nose, rounded eyes and large protruding ears with the right hand pulling the right earlobe and the left hand down by the left hand side with clenched fist at the buttocks area. The legs are in profile and are slightly apart as if the figure is swinging. The clenched fist on the left hand side may be holding or drawing something across the waist of the figure but this is unclear, it could be that this figure is holding his penis but this is uncertain. This appears to be the remains of a possible male exhibitionist figure rather than that of a sheela-na-gig that was originally built into the fabric of the Cistercian abbey. To see a 3D model of this exhibitionist figure, visit; https://skfb.ly/owWIU Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 26 July 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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 low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_123 (ZIP).

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 Knockaunmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Knockaunmore · An Cnocán Mór

Area

419,239 m² (41.92 ha, 103.6 acres)

Civil parish

O'Dorney, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmaurice

Electoral division

Abbeydorney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Abbeydorney electoral division: 1,244 people in 458 households; 76% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballysheen, Boherroe, Milltown, Montanagay

Placenames

Knockaunmore 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.