Knock

140 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knock, from 11 m² to 67,854 m² (6.79 ha, 16.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 38 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 139 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1Enterprise and Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Open Space and Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Education and Community Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 25 Aug 2026N/a

  construction of a new wastewater pumping station consisting of: Foul Wet Well chamber containing submersible pumps, Inlet and screening chamber upstream of the new Wet Well, Foul Valve chamber downstream of the Wet Well, Vent Stack, Storm Return Pumps, Flow Meter chamber for foul rising main, Wet Kiosk and washdown area, Lifting mechanisms, Welfare facilities, incorporated with MCC kiosk, Site security provided with 2.4m palisade fencing, Emergency Storage Tank and associated pumping system, Motor Control Center (MCC) Container for control panel, Interconnecting pipework and ducting, Extended internal site access road, Hardstanding around tanks and chambers and All related site works and ancillary development

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660977

• 25 Oct 2025Conditional

  a new waste water pump station. This will include the provision of the new underground pumping station and associated emergency overflow storage tank, control kiosks to serve the pumping station, new boundary treatments, landscaping, a proposed access to the new road currently under construction, and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2561089

• 14 Apr 2025Conditional

  converting existing attic into attic storage space, with new skylights to front and side hipped roof and all ancillary works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 25117

• 14 Nov 2024Conditional

  construction of a single storey pre formed steel, gym building and all associated siteworks

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2461123

• 2 May 2024Conditional

  the conversion of a garage to an office to the east elevation and elevational alterations to the east elevation of the domestic dwelling

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 24181

• 11 Aug 2023Conditional

  an alteration to previously approved planning reference no. 19/970, for the reduction in size of the basement, reduction in the no. of car parking spaces and all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2360575

• 12 May 2022Conditional

  the upgrade to the existing floodlighting system to the training pitch/ The works will include the erection of 4 no. floodlighting poles with 4 no. 600 watt LED lights at the top of each pole

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 22522

• 29 Mar 2022Conditional

  the widening of the existing entrance to our grounds

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 22347

• 16 Sept 2020Conditional

  widening existing entrance and driveway, together with all associated site and incidental works and Retention Permission for existing as-constructed single-storey extension to the side of the existing dwelling

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 20923

• 1 Oct 2019Conditional

  a residential development comprising 92 no. residential units, (2 no. detached houses, 22 no. semi-detached houses, 12 no. terrace houses, 12 no. duplex units and 1 no. 6 storey apartment block over basement, comprised of 44 no. apartments, (with basement parking) attenuation pond, landscaping, boundary treatments, including connection to existing services and vehicle parking all accessed via a new entrance onto the Ennis road and all ancillary site development works. The application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Assessment.

  Permission, 92 homes · Limerick County Council, 19970

• 17 Apr 2019Conditional

  construction of an extension to the existing clubhouse to facilitate a gym extension and covered area, the construction of a ball alley to the rear of the existing hurling wall. Retention Permission is also sought for the construction of a generator store and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 19371

• 15 Feb 2019N/a

  widening existing vehicular entrance and driveway and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 19136

• 4 Aug 2017Conditional

  construction of a detached dwelling and associated site works to the rear

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17747

• 23 Jun 2017Conditional

  the construction of a viewing deck on the south and west elevations of the clubhouse overlooking the main pitch at our grounds

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 17585

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 Knock.

Recorded monuments

• LI005-006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, c. 105m to E of the R527 public road and c. 120m to NW of Na Piarsaigh GAA Club. Depicted on the revised 1938 ed. OS 25-inch map as a circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 26m). Recorded in the SMR file as a ‘circular platform’ suggesting that it is defined by a scarp. Visible as a partially tree-lined suboval-shaped monument on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and Google Earth orthoimage taken 05/04/2006. See attached Google Earth orthoimage 05/04/2006. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 22 June 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_927 (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 Knock with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Knock · An Cnoc

Area

335,651 m² (33.57 ha, 82.94 acres)

Civil parish

St. Munchin's, and its townlands

Barony

North Liberties

Electoral division

Limerick North Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Limerick North Rural electoral division: 7,364 people in 2,788 households; 63% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caherdavin, Clonconane, Clondrinagh, Shannabooly

Placenames

Knock 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.