Ballyknockane

3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyknockane, from 2,284 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres) to 156,484 m² (15.65 ha, 38.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Ballyknockane 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 Ballyknockane 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 Ballyknockane.

Recorded monuments

• LI030-034 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In tillage, at base of NW-facing slope. Roughly circular area (26m E-W; c. 30m N-S) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.6m) NE->SSE, and defined by scarped edge (H 0.15m) SSE->WSW; enclosing element hidden by dense overgrowth WSW->NE. Field clearance stones have been dumped along foot of scarp at S and along external base of bank at NE. Gap in bank at E (Wth 2.1m). Interior covered by dense scrub. Site is depicted on 1841 OS 6-inch map as area planted with trees within demesne of Ballyknockane House. According to local information was once used as a burial ground. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.

• LI030-036 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In tillage, on N-facing slope. Roughly circular area (diam. c. 30m) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks with intervening fosse (Wth 1.1m). Inner bank (int. H 1.45m; ext. H 2.7m) and outer bank (int. H 1.75m; ext. H 0.45m) both present steepest profile on NW side; outer bank replaced by field boundary N->SE and modified to form road boundary SE->SW. Interior covered by dense overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballyknockane.

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 Ballyknockane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ballyknockane · Baile an Chnocáin

Area

592,814 m² (59.28 ha, 146.49 acres)

Civil parish

Ballingarry(croom Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Connello Upper

Electoral division

Ballingarry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballingarry electoral division: 970 people in 369 households; 75% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyfoleen South, Ballynahaha, Kilbeg East, Kilbeg West, Kilmacow, Lissamota

Placenames

Ballyknockane 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.