Knocknacurra

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknacurra, from 372 m² to 377,438 m² (37.74 ha, 93.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Knocknacurra 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.

• 19 Nov 2025Refused

  retention permission to retain existing caravan on site

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2561068

• 4 Jun 2025N/a

  retention permission to retain existing caravan on site

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2560473

• 30 Apr 2025N/a

  Invalid: retention permission to retain existing caravan on site

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2560357

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

• KE022-030 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  Possible cairn which the Castleisland District Archaeological Survey mentioned that 'a pencilled note records their presence [grave cairns] at this site on the OS 2nd edition maps housed in the Dept. of Archaeology UCC. The note records 'several large grave cairns - John Morissey'. To date this map has not been located. The site was visited by the Castleisland survey and they failed to locate any surface evidence of an archaeological monument here. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 13 June 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knocknacurra.

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

Name

Knocknacurra

Area

939,472 m² (93.95 ha, 232.15 acres)

Civil parish

O'Brennan, and its townlands

Barony

Trughanacmy

Electoral division

Nohaval, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Nohaval electoral division: 391 people in 141 households; 91% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Knocknagoum, Rathmore, Reanagowan

Placenames

Knocknacurra 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.