Knockmanagh

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockmanagh, from 393 m² to 361,264 m² (36.13 ha, 89.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Knockmanagh 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.

• 10 Nov 2021Conditional

  ALTER AND EXTEND THE EXISTING HOUSE TO FRONT AND SIDE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211269

• 20 Mar 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, ATTACHED GARAGE,INSTALL A SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19277

• 27 Nov 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO THE FRONT AND REAR OF THE EXISTING HOUSE, AND TO CARRY OUT INTERNAL ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING HOUSE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND PERMISSION TO DEMCOMMISSION THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALL NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM.

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 181157

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 Knockmanagh.

Recorded monuments

• KE067-009 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a S-facing slope with views to Mangerton Mountain and Macgillycuddy's Reeks. A raised oval area (32m E-W; c. 27m N-S) is enclosed by an overgrown inner earthen bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.5m) SE-SSW and by traces of an overgrown inner bank SW-NW. Intermittent traces of an intervening fosse (Wth 2.1m) is evident SE-NW and an outer bank (Wth 2.65m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 2.1m) surviving SE-NW is obscured by overgrowth. The enclosing elements are truncated along the N arc by an overgrown E-W field boundary. A NNW-SSE overgrown field boundary truncates the enclosing elements and a small portion of the interior NNE-SE. There is a causewayed entrance (Wth 3.3m) at SE. There is a break in the bank at WNW and a break in the field boundary leading to the interior at N. The surface of the interior is uneven and partially obscured by gorse and briars. A hut site (KE067-009002-) and souterrain (KE067-009001-) are in the interior off centre to the SW. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE067-009001 Souterrain
  Description

  In a hut site (KE067-009002-) which is within a rath (KE067-009----). An opening (Wth 0.85m; H 0.55m) under the internal face of the W wall of the hut site leads underground in a NW direction. The opening has been blocked with stones for safety reasons and the souterrain is inaccessible. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE067-009002 Hut site
  Description

  Within a rath (KE067-009----) off centre to the SW. The remains of a rectangular area (6m N-S; 4.5m E-W) defined by a grass-covered stone wall (T 0.8m; H 0.3m). The wall is partially covered with briars and gorse. A break in the NW corner may indicate an entrance. The surface of the interior is uneven. There is a souterrain (KE067-009001-) within this hut site. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Knockmanagh.

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.

• Knockmanagh, Kilcummin5 sales

Name

Knockmanagh

Area

1,063,503 m² (106.35 ha, 262.8 acres)

Civil parish

Killarney, and its townlands

Barony

Magunihy

Electoral division

Killarney Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killarney Rural electoral division: 7,735 people in 2,446 households; 71% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballahacommane, Knockaninane West, Knockearagh, Knocknahoe

Placenames

Knockmanagh 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.