Knocknamucklagh

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknamucklagh, from 1,712 m² to 354,983 m² (35.5 ha, 87.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Knocknamucklagh 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Knocknamucklagh in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Knocknamucklagh.

Recorded monuments

• KE047-071 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a SW-facing slope, c. 75m NE of Kilnanare stream. A circular area (42m N-S; 40m E-W) defined by a substantial earthen bank with an external fosse S-SE. There is a causeway entrance at SE. The interior slopes down to the SW. The rath is overgrown with impenetrable furze bushes. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE048-076 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a SE-facing slope. A circular area (c. 33.5m N-S; c. 33m E-W) defined by two earthen banks, an intervening fosse and an outer fosse. The inner bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.15m) has numerous cattle gaps. The intervening fosse (Wth c. 2.2m) is evident all around. The outer bank (Wth 3.4m) survives N-NW. An internal ledge (Wth 2m) near the base of the internal face of the outer bank survives all round. The outer fosse is evident S-WNW as a slight slope down to the base of the outer bank. A field boundary skirts the outer bank along the N arc. The uneven interior slopes down to the SE. There is a possible entrance through the inner (Wth 3m) and outer (Wth c. 1.6m) banks at SSE. (Castleisland District Archaeological Survey) Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE048-102 Country house
  Description

  An occupied two-storey gable-ended house. The front elevation (ENE-facing) is of three bays and has a central doorway with a rectangular overlight. The window opes are rectangular and some retain sash frames with glazing bars. There is a chimney on each gable. There is a one-storey off-centre projection at the rear. A one-storey outhouse adjoins the SW end of the house. According to Bary (1994, 162), the house may date to the early 18th century and was originally associated with the Fitzgerald family. (Castleisland District Archaeological Survey) Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE048-206 Enclosure
  Description

  In improved pasture, on an E-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 22m) defined by the remains of a low profile earthen bank (Wth 8m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.3m); best preserved NW->E->SW. Bank is levelled downslope ENE->E->ESE where the exterior is stepped like a counter scarp. Interior is dish-shaped and featureless. Monument is incorporated into field as pasture. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 8 September 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knocknamucklagh.

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

Name

Knocknamucklagh

Area

1,313,145 m² (131.31 ha, 324.49 acres)

Civil parish

Kilnanare, and its townlands

Barony

Magunihy

Electoral division

Kilnanare, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilnanare electoral division: 1,052 people in 362 households; 92% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Gortdromerillagh, Keelties, Kilnanare, Longfield, Shrone

Placenames

Knocknamucklagh 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.