Knockanea

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockanea, from 370 m² to 411,177 m² (41.12 ha, 101.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 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 Knockanea 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 Apr 2024Conditional

  the development that will comprise the construction of a livestock underpass including underground effluent storage tank and all associated site development works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460364

• 1 Dec 2023Conditional

  the construction of an 'A' roofed cattle shed with feeding passage and slatted underground slurry storage tank and ancillary works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 23580

• 9 Sept 2021Conditional

  elevational changes and resultant additional floor space to existing house as constructed from those permitted under planning ref 05/3030 and all associated site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 211260

• 22 Apr 2020Conditional

  construction of a silage slab with effluent tank, cubicle house with straw bedded area, slatted tank and ancillary works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 20330

• 19 Dec 2018Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house, garage, entrance, wastewater treatment system and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 181248

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 Knockanea.

Recorded monuments

• LI014-041 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated immediately NNE of a field boundary in flat pasture with good views in all directions. The monument consists of a roughly circular area (20m E-W; 19.7m N-S) defined by a scarped edge (Wth 8.8m; H 1.3m), with an external fosse (Wth 2.4m; D 0.1m) evident from N to SW. An animal track runs N-S along the scarp on the W side. The interior surface slopes down to the S. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 20 June 2013

• LI014-043 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a NW-facing slope in gently undulating, poorly-drained pasture, with good views in all directions. The monument consists of a circular area (diam. 25m) enclosed by an earthen bank (ext. H 0.1m; Wth 3m; int. H 0.9m) with an external fosse (Wth 2.5m; D 0.6m). There is a dip (Wth 10m) in the bank at SSE. The fosse is wide and flat-bottomed. The interior surface is uneven and slopes down to the E. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 20 June 2013

• LI014-044 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in low-lying pasture with good views in all directions. The monument consists of a circular area (16.6m N-S; 15.5m E-W) defined by a scarped edge (Wth 3m; H 0.6m) with an external fosse (Wth 2m) and an external bank (int. H 0.3m; Wth 2m; ext. H 0.25m). There is a reduction in the height of the scarp to S (Wth. 3.7m) and it has been eroded at NE and SE. The fosse is evident from NE to SE and SW to NNE. The external bank is intermittent from NE to SE, and from SW to NW. The interior is uneven and slopes down to S. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 20 June 2013

• LI014-046 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated immediately W of a field boundary, on an E-facing slope in gently undulating pasture, with good views in all directions. The monument is obscured by dense scrub vegetation and is heavily poached by cattle. Indicated on the 1923 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) truncated at E by a field boundary. It is now evident as a circular area enclosed by an earthen bank (ext. H 0.5m; Wth 1.3m; int. H 0.3m). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 20 June

• LI014-048 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated at the base of a NE-facing slope in gently-rolling pasture with good views in all directions, immediately NW of a field boundary which curves around the S and E edges of the site. Named on 1923 OS 6-inch map as 'Lisnagroagh'. The monument consists of a roughly circular area (21m NW-SE; 17.9m NE-SW) defined by a scarped edge (Wth 4.4 - 6.5m; H 0.9m), with an external fosse (Wth 3.5m; D 0.3m) evident from S to N and possibly in NNE. The interior slopes slightly down to the NE. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 20 June 2013

• LI014-131 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in low-lying pasture, with good views in all directions. Roughly circular area (19m E-W; 17.5m N-S) defined by a scarped edge (Wth 1.5m; H 0.4m). The interior surface is uneven and slopes down to S and SE. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 27 June 2013

• LI014-147 Field system
  Description

  Situated in undulating reclaimed pasture, E of a small tributary of the Groody River and W of two ringforts (LI014-043/-044----) located 115m and 150m to E respectively. Field system possibly associated with two ringfort that was inspected in 2005 and described as consisting of several earthen banks, fosses and mounds visible in two fields. Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2005-2012 shows numerous earthworks in the fields some of which may be drainage channels related to to land reclamation and some of which may be a relict field system associated with the nearby ringforts. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017 Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 7 July 2020

• LI014-158 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Identified from aerial photographs on Bing Maps (www.bing.com/maps/) and Google Earth as a possible grouping of three conjoined ringbarrow. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 20 June 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knockanea.

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

Name

Knockanea · Cnoc an Fhia

Area

1,387,488 m² (138.75 ha, 342.86 acres)

Civil parish

Caherconlish, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Caherconlish West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Caherconlish West electoral division: 2,318 people in 774 households; 72% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Grange West, Hundredacres East, Knockatancashlane, Knockeen, Sandylane, Templemichael, Tobermalug

Placenames

Knockanea 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.