Knockbrack

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockbrack, from 40 m² to 134,276 m² (13.43 ha, 33.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Knockbrack 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.

• 8 Apr 2025Conditional

  planning Permission to a) Renovate and extend the existing dwelling on site b) Decommission the existing septic tank and percolation area c) install a mechanical treatment unit and raised polishing filter d) construct a new driveway and e) construct all associated site works at Knockbrack, Ardfert, Co. Kerry

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560262

• 1 Sept 2020Conditional

  BUILD A PRIVATE PORCH AT FRONT OF EXISTING DWELLING

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20781

• 14 May 2019Conditional

  TO RETAIN (A ) EXISTING COMMERCIAL SHED FOR STORAGE OF TYRES ETC (B)RETAIN 2 NO. PRIVATE SHEDS (WORKSHOP AND TURF SHED) DWELLING , CONCRETE YARD, NEW ACCESS ROAD AND BOUNDARY WALL AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS ALL WITHIN REVISED BOUNDARY

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 19498

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 Knockbrack.

Recorded monuments

• KE015-103 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  This circular enclosure is situated N of KE015-104---- and is marked on the 1841-42 OS map. It does not appear on the later edition of 1916, though it does show up as a crop mark on the Geological Survey of Ireland's aerial photographs (1977). No surface trace survives. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 578. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE015-104 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diameter 30.6m N-S, 30m E-W This univallate rath is situated in a corner of a field and has now been much disturbed. It consists of a circular raised area, though to the NE and E slight traces of the enclosing bank can be distinguished. NW to N and NE, the enclosing bank was later stone faced. The SW to W sectors of the enclosing bank have also been disturbed. An external fosse can be noted NE through E to S to SW. It is now very shallow and is best preserved to the E where it is 3.8m wide and .3m deep. A causeway appears to run across the fosse to the S, but there is no corresponding entrance in the bank. The interior is at a higher level than the surrounding land, and contained within the NW sector is a semi-circular depression curving into the stone-faced bank. The landowner (Mr Collis) stated that this was the entrance to the souterrains (KE015-104001-), but was filled in a number of years ago. Also to be noted in the interior are five small mounds, Three are in a line running NW-SE, one is in the NE sector and the fifth towards the E sector. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 577. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE015-104001 Souterrain
  Description

  Univallate rath KE015-104---- is situated in a corner of a field and has now been much disturbed. It consists of a circular raised area, though to the NE and E slight traces of the enclosing bank can be distinguished. The landowner (Mr Collis) stated that this was the entrance to the souterrains (KE015-104001-), but was filled in a number of years ago. Also to be noted in the interior are five small mounds, Three are in a line running NW-SE, one is in the NE sector and the fifth towards the E sector. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 577. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knockbrack.

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

Name

Knockbrack · An Cnoc Breac

Area

515,014 m² (51.5 ha, 127.26 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmoyly, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmaurice

Electoral division

Ballynorig, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballynorig electoral division: 549 people in 196 households; 92% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhemikin, Ballymacandrew South, Baltovin, Baltovin, Kilcooly South, Parknageragh

Placenames

Knockbrack 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.