Knoppoge

69 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knoppoge, from 11 m² to 207,375 m² (20.74 ha, 51.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Knoppoge 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 Feb 2025Conditional

  to build an agricultural access and associated site works

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560099

• 11 Oct 2023Conditional

  TO BUILD A PRIVATE SINGLE STOREY DWELLING WITH ATTIC ACCOMMODATION, GARAGE, SERVED WITH SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 231039

• 28 Sept 2023N/a

  Invalid- To form a new enterance into farm land from the public road way, Dowd's Cross Road

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2360192

• 8 Jul 2022Conditional

  RETAIN HER AGRICULTURAL ENTRANCE AS BUILT AND PLANNING PERMISSION TO COMPLETE THIS ENTRANCE ALONG WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22736

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
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cashen River Estuary 001340

Recorded monuments

• KE009-011 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diameter 29m Situated between two fields, this circular univallate rath is touched S, NE and NW by fieldbanks. The enclosing bank is earth and stone in morphology and is on average 4.6m wide. The exterior height of the bank reaches a maximum of 2.2m, and rises to 1m above the interior. The external fosse can be seen for most of the site, except to the N to NE where it is not distinguishable. Elsewhere it is c 1.8m wide and .7m below the height of the surrounding land. A 2m wide gap to the W provides access to the interior, which is at a slightly higher level than the surrounding land. In the E sector the interior of the bank is stone faced for 4.2m. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 355. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE009-012 Enclosure
  Description

  This circular enclosure is situated immediately S of Tobereleesh holy well (KE009-013----) whose rounds included both fort and well. The enclosing bank is low and wide, though it is better preserved to the S. The bank rises to an average of .4m above the interior and .4m-1.4m externally. The enclosure measures internally 22m N-S and 25m E-W. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 1044. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013

• KE009-013 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Marked on the 1840-41 and 1914 OS maps as 'Tobereleesh' (Tobar Eilís - well of Eilís), this well is known locally as Knoppoge well, St Brigid's well and Tobar an Leighis (well of the healing). Situation and Description: This well is situated beside an enclosure (1044). The rounds path includes both well and fort. Just across from the well a modern shrine has been erected. Rounds: This well is still visited and rounds usually consist of three cycles, during each of which the rosary is recited. Water cures mental problems and bodily ailments. Legends: (a) St Brigid visited this well on her way through Kerry, (b) A golden fish is seen by the people about to be cured. Folklore collected from Ballyduff School recorded the following tradition about this well; ‘There is a well about a half a mile from my house and is called "Tobar a leighis". It is situated a few hundred yards from the public road. This well is called after St. Brigid. A lot of people go there paying rounds, and some people are cured. People pay rounds at the well on Friday evening and more on Saturday. People go on Friday for the health and Saturday for the head. It is said that persons who are cured see a gold fish in the well. The people that pay rounds leave a medal or picture or a bead near it. This well is opened to the public. There is a mound of earth near the well and it is circular in shape. Round this the people walk when they are paying the round. They say three rosaries for every round' (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0415, Page 261;https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4666610/4666528/4682787?ChapterID=4666610). See attached colour photographs courtesy of Amanda Clarke. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 896. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Caimin O’Brien Date of revised upload: 19 May 2022

• KE009-015 Souterrain
  Description

  According to local tradition an isolated souterrain exists in the NE corner of this pastoral field. No visible trace survives today. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 1122. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013

• KE009-016 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  This site is marked on the 1841-42 and 1915-16 OS maps as a circular enclosure. On the earlier edition 'cave' (KE009-016001-) is marked in the interior, though this does not appear on the later edition. Today this site has been completely levelled except for a small section of the enclosing bank to the NW, which survives due to the fact that it was incorporated into the fieldbank. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 356. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE009-016001 Souterrain
  Description

  KE009-016---- is marked on the 1841-42 and 1915-16 OS maps as a circular enclosure. On the earlier edition 'cave' (KE009-016001-) is marked in the interior, though this does not appear on the later edition. Today this site has been completely levelled except for a small section of the enclosing bank to the NW, which survives due to the fact that it was incorporated into the fieldbank. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 356. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE009-032 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  This site appears on the 1841-42 and 1915-16 OS maps as a large circular enclosure. It can also be picked up as a crop mark on the Geological Survey of Ireland's aerial photographs (1974). No surface trace of this site 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. 357. 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 Knoppoge.

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, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_142 (ZIP).

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

Name

Knoppoge · An Chnapóg

Area

1,592,016 m² (159.2 ha, 393.4 acres)

Civil parish

Killury, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmaurice

Electoral division

Ballyduff, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballyduff electoral division: 846 people in 333 households; 79% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloghane, Derryra Beg, Derryra More, Knoppoge North, Knoppoge South, Lacka West

Placenames

Knoppoge 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.