Knocknasawna

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknasawna, from 2,534 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres) to 141,345 m² (14.13 ha, 34.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Knocknasawna 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.

• 1 Sept 2020Conditional

  amend the existing site boundaries, to upgrade and relocate the waste water treatment system to current EPA Code of Practice and all ancillary works

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 20135

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 Knocknasawna.

Recorded monuments

• LE023-015 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on top of a rise. This is a grass and reed-covered subcircular area (int. dims 27.5m N-S; 25m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.25m at SE to 0.75m at N) with some bushes and an external fosse represented by a bed of reeds (Wth of base 2m; D 0.1m). There are faint traces of an entrance causeway at SE. It remains undisturbed in a forest planted c. 2010 (Bing 2013). The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE027-010 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located towards the top of a SE-facing slope. This is a grass and reed-covered circular area (int. diam. 30.5m E-W; 28m N-S) defined by an round-topped earthen bank (Wth 4.2m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.9m) and hedge, which is surmounted by a field bank S-W. There are traces of an outer fosse visible as a band of lush growth (Wth 2.5m) N-E. The interior slopes down to the SE but the original entrance is not identified. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Knocknasawna.

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 Knocknasawna with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Knocknasawna · Cnoc na Samhna

Area

549,441 m² (54.94 ha, 135.77 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltoghert, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Leitrim, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Leitrim electoral division: 1,380 people in 500 households; 80% of households own their home; 60% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 17% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghakilmore, Cornacranaghy, Drumkeelan, Drumkeelan More, Lisbrockan, Lisconor, Moheracreevy Glebe, Mullaghsallagh

Placenames

Knocknasawna 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.