Knockanebrack

62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockanebrack, from 156 m² to 182,210 m² (18.22 ha, 45.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Knockanebrack 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.

• 3 Nov 2025Conditional

  a new dwelling, entrance, waste water treatment system and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2561127

• 24 Apr 2023Conditional

  the construction of a single storey residence, stand alone garage, entrance, wastewater treatment system with percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 23221

• 6 Apr 2022Conditional

  (I) Construction of a single storey sun porch extension to the front of their residence (ii) construct a two storey bedroom and bathroom extension attached to the side of the residence

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 22383

• 26 May 2021Conditional

  demolition of existing hay barn, lean-to structure and outbuilding on southern side of site and construction of a single storey dwelling house and entrance off existing private roadway, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21716

• 3 May 2018Conditional

  construction of a two storey dwelling house, garage & car port, entrance and driveway off existing private roadway, bored well, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 18420

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 Knockanebrack.

Recorded monuments

• LI050-003 Earthwork
  Description

  In pasture, 260m SW of the summit of Knockanebrack Hill (535 ft./163m). Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped platform. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised sub-circular-shaped area (dims. c. 36m NW-SE; 30m NE-SW) defined by a scarp. Surveyed by the ASI in 1999 and described as a raised circular-shaped area (diam. 31m) defined by a scarp (Wth 1.2m; H 0.4m) from NW-E-S-W. Interior slopes to SE. Outline of overgrown monument is visible on Google Earth orthoimages with small quarry and well 15m to NW. This well and quarry is depicted on 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 4 October 2021

• LI050-004001 Bawn
  Description

  Westropp (1920, 381) described the enclosure or bawn/bailey of Dun Grot Castle as follows; ‘On its angle, over a deep, bushy stream glen, rises a little fragment of wall, in curious outworks, the last relic of Dungrot Castle [LI050-004002-]. The outworks are a notable instance of the ingenuity of the old fort-makers in adapting natural features. The platform was naturally precipitous to the south and east, so they made a dry-stone revetment along it, and scarped and raised the landward faces into a high and efficient rampart, with a fosse along its foot. They carved and adapted a knoll in the south-west bend the same way, and levelled its summit. Examining the outer defence, we note the fosse, 9 [2.7m] to 12 feet [3.6m] wide, a few feet deep, but deepening eastward towards the gully. In the reach from the eastern edge is the gap of the old gateway, the entrance ramp rising to the platform; it is 6 feet [1.8m] wide, and lies to the north-east of the Castle. To either side of this are large, shallow, oval hollows, or house rings on the platform; that to the south-east abutting against the wall at the precipice. The other site lies to the north-west of the entrance. The garth here is 13 feet [4m] above the field; the rampart from 12 feet [3.6m] to 18 feet [5.5m] high outside, and about 25 feet [7.6m] thick at the base, and 6 feet [1.8m] to 12 feet [3.6m] wide on top. At the north it turns sharply to the south-west, curving back to the upper garth, and, as the natural rise of the field is not counterbalanced in the wall, the latter is rarely over 6 feet [1.8m] high at the neck, where it joins the upper ring fort. This has a bold scarp, 20 feet [6m] to 30 feet [10m] high, till it returns to the gully, and is somewhat irregular, generally speaking oval, about 100 feet [30m] east and west and 90 feet [27m] north and south. Its revetment is from 3 [0.9m] to over 6 feet [1.8m] thick, and on the side of the outwork it usually rises about 10 feet over the fosse, which is rarely 3 feet [0.9m] deep and from 9 [2.7m] to 12 feet [3.6m] wide. Near the centre of the platform on the summit of the knoll stood the castle tower. The whole foundation is featureless, but of fair masonry, about 9 feet [2.7m] high, 15 feet [4.5m] long, and 6 feet [1.8m] thick. There is a fair and extensive view down the glen and the wide valley of Slievenamuck, the open plain and the blue distances of Co. Tipperary’. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 21/06/2021 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 7 October 2021

• LI050-004002 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Castle annotated 'Dungort Stumpe' on the Down Survey map of Coshlea Barony where it is shown standing on top of a hill (Hib. Reg.). The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that in 1640 John Cantwell of Galbally an Irish Papist was the owner of 'The Mannor of Dungrot, four plowlands and a halfe, where on stands a Castle, a Grist Mill, a Tucking Mill, with a Courte Leete and Baron' (Simington 1938, 229). Westropp (1906-7, 197) recorded the following details about Dungrot (Dún gCrot) Castle in the townland of Knockanebrack (An Cnocán Breac); 'The Galtees were originally known as Crotta cliach or Sliabh Crot (see notes on O'Huidhrin, ed. O'Donovan, 753). 1002 King Brian repaired Dungcroit fort (Wars G. and G.). 1578 Donegrot and Ardlaghe, possessions of Morrough O'Brien, of Cloughkeating, to G. Moore (Fi. 3317). 1587 Granted to Sir E. Fyton (Fi. 5032). 1604 The Manors and C[astles].s of Galbally and Dungrott to Don., Earl of Thomond, as demised to M. Roche and J. Burgett (Pat. R.), 1611 Dungrott, a fair and a court of piepowder, to T. Cantwell (ib.). 1655 J. Cantwell, Dungrot manor, C[astle], grist mill, tucking-mill, and courts leet and baron (C.S., xxv., p. 4; D.S.A., 50). Westropp (1920, 381) described the bailey or bawn of Dun Grot Castle as follows; ‘On its angle, over a deep, bushy stream glen, rises a little fragment of wall, in curious outworks, the last relic of Dungrot Castle. The outworks [LI050-004001-] are a notable instance of the ingenuity of the old fort-makers in adapting natural features. The platform was naturally precipitous to the south and east, so they made a dry-stone revetment along it, and scarped and raised the landward faces into a high and efficient rampart, with a fosse along its foot. They carved and adapted a knoll in the south-west bend the same way, and levelled its summit. Examining the outer defence, we note the fosse, 9 [2.7m] to 12 feet [3.6m] wide, a few feet deep, but deepening eastward towards the gully. In the reach from the eastern edge is the gap of the old gateway, the entrance ramp rising to the platform; it is 6 feet [1.8m] wide, and lies to the north-east of the Castle. To either side of this are large, shallow, oval hollows, or house rings on the platform; that to the south-east abutting against the wall at the precipice. The other site lies to the north-west of the entrance. The garth here is 13 feet [4m] above the field; the rampart from 12 feet [3.6m] to 18 feet [5.5m] high outside, and about 25 feet [7.6m] thick at the base, and 6 feet [1.8m] to 12 feet [3.6m] wide on top. At the north it turns sharply to the south-west, curving back to the upper garth, and, as the natural rise of the field is not counterbalanced in the wall, the latter is rarely over 6 feet [1.8m] high at the neck, where it joins the upper ring fort. This has a bold scarp, 20 feet [6m] to 30 feet [10m] high, till it returns to the gully, and is somewhat irregular, generally speaking oval, about 100 feet [30m] east and west and 90 feet [27m] north and south. Its revetment is from 3 [0.9m] to over 6 feet [1.8m] thick, and on the side of the outwork it usually rises about 10 feet over the fosse, which is rarely 3 feet [0.9m] deep and from 9 [2.7m] to 12 feet [3.6m] wide. Near the centre of the platform on the summit of the knoll stood the castle tower. The whole foundation is featureless, but of fair masonry, about 9 feet [2.7m] high, 15 feet [4.5m] long, and 6 feet [1.8m] thick. There is a fair and extensive view down the glen and the wide valley of Slievenamuck, the open plain and the blue distances of Co. Tipperary’. See attached Down Survey map of Coshlea Barony Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 7 October 2021

• LI050-005 Earthwork
  Description

  In pasture 70m W a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Longford and the county boundary with Tipperary. Barrow (TS073-017001-) lies 250m to E. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped platform. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised sub-circular-shaped area (dims. c. 55m N-S; 45m E-W) defined by a scarp and fosse. Surveyed by the ASI in 1999 and described as a raised circular-shaped area (dims. 39m N-S; 35m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 1.8m) with fosse (Wth 2.05m). Relict field boundary runs along outer line of fosse from N-NE. Intersected at NE by field boundary running E-W. Outline of overgrown monument visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 4 October 2021

• LI050-036 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 30m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery and visible today on Digital Globe aerial coverage. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 18/11/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 10 March 2020

Architectural heritage

• Dungrot Bridge, bridge, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch sandstone road bridge, built c. 1870, with coursed rubble parapet walls with rubble cappings. Rusticated walls to north and south elevations. Dressed limestone voussoirs to round-headed arches.

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

At the centre of the townland of Knockanebrack, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Knockanebrack with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Knockanebrack · An Cnocán Breac

Area

1,934,833 m² (193.48 ha, 478.11 acres)

Civil parish

Galbally, and its townlands

Barony

Coshlea

Electoral division

Riversdale, the unit of the census

Census 2022

272 people lived in 98 households in the Riversdale electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardnamoher, Ballygeana, Baunteen, Kilscanlan, Lissanarroor, Longford (Co. Tipperary), Lyre (Co. Tipperary)

Placenames

Knockanebrack 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.