Knockannacreeva

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockannacreeva, from 180 m² to 337,914 m² (33.79 ha, 83.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Knockannacreeva 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.

• 5 Sept 2025Refused

  an existing mobile home and an existing front boundary fence and entrance and ‘Permission’ to demolish a derelict dwelling house and Outline Permission to construct a new dwelling house

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2560893

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 Knockannacreeva.

Recorded monuments

• LI038-093 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, adjacent to the townlands of Kinglands to the W, Creeve to the N and Hardinggrove to the E. Ringfort (LI038-094----) and enclosure (LI038-095) lie 185m and 260m to the NErespectively, Hardinggrove House lies 700m to the E. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as an oval-shaped platform (dims. c. 31m N-S; 37m E-W) defined by a scarp. Not marked on 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map indicating that the monument was levelled between these map dates. No surface remains visible of levelled monument on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-2012. Trace of monument visible as circular cropmark (diam. c. 19m) on Google Earth orthoimages and on Digital Globe orthophotograph taken 2011-13. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 19 April 2021

• LI038-094 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gently S-facing slope. Roughly-circular area (32.2m N-S; 33.1m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1m). Interior slightly concave in profile. To NNE, c. 10m outside edge of enclosure, is low mound (diam. c. 20m; max. H c. 1m) merging with slope of ground to N; this latter possibly a natural feature. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI038-095 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture. No visible surface trace of site depicted as ovoid platform on 1841 OS 6-inch map. Adjacent field fences recently levelled. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI038-096 Enclosure
  Description

  In reclaimed poorly drained pasture, 75m NE of a stream which marks townland boundary with Coolrus. ‘Patrick’s Well’ ( LI038-092---- ) and ringfort (LI038-089----) lie 140m and 210m to the SW respectively. Not marked on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as circular-shaped platform (dims. c. 31m N-S; 32m E-W) defined by a scarp. Monument visible as circular-shaped cropmark truncated at SE and SW by a field boundary running E-W on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 19 April 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knockannacreeva, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knockannacreeva.

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

Name

Knockannacreeva · Cnocán na Craoibhe

Area

691,365 m² (69.14 ha, 170.84 acres)

Civil parish

Bruree, and its townlands

Barony

Coshma

Electoral division

Rockhill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

337 people lived in 124 households in the Rockhill electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 17% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolrus, Creevebeg, Harding Grove, Kilbreedy, Kingsland

Placenames

Knockannacreeva 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.