Knockawinna

74 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockawinna, from 31 m² to 472,097 m² (47.21 ha, 116.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Knockawinna 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.

• 9 Jan 2023Conditional

  (A) CONSTRUCT A NEW DAIRY UNIT INCORPORATING MILKING COMPLEX, DRAFTING AREA AND COLLECTING YARD. PROPOSED UNIT TO ALSO INCORPORATE EASY FEED CUBICLES, SCRAPERS AND SLATTED TANKS WITH EXTERNAL AGITATION, (B) ERECT A MEAL BIN. THE ABOVE TO INCLUDE ANCILLARY CONCRETE AND TO BE CARRIED OUT WITH ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 237

• 3 Apr 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING AND GARAGE, VEHICLE ENTRANCE, FOUL WATER TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOICATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20320

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

• KE032-016 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Levelled monument described in 1985 by the 'Castleisland District Archaeological Survey' as the 'site of a fulacht fiadh which was levelled in 1981. A well is situated to the northwest. According to the landowner it had stood to a height of 5 or 6 ft. [1.5-1.8m]. Dark burnt soil and burnt shattered red stone are still visible under a brownish cover of grass. The spread of material measures 13m from north to south, and 12m from east to west. The site is bordered by a dyke on the east' (SMR file). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 27 April 2022

• KE032-017 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Levelled monument described in 1985 by the 'Castleisland District Archaeological Survey' as the 'site of a fulacht fiadh which was levelled in 1981. An area of swamp borders the monument on the west-south-west, while it is bordered by a dyke and field fence on the east. A low mound is still obvious with little or no growth on it. Burnt black soil and burnt shattered red stone is obvious in the mound. The mound measures 11m from north to south and 12.2m from east to west' (SMR file). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 27 April 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Knockawinna.

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

Name

Knockawinna · Cnoc an Mhuine

Area

3,657,662 m² (365.77 ha, 903.83 acres)

Civil parish

Brosna, and its townlands

Barony

Trughanacmy

Electoral division

Gneeves, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Gneeves electoral division: 375 people in 149 households; 89% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ahaun, Cloghvoula (Co. Cork), Glantaunluskaha, Knockaclarig (Co. Cork), Knockatooan (Co. Cork), Reacaslagh

Placenames

Knockawinna 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.