Knockardnacorlan

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockardnacorlan, from 2,172 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres) to 482,679 m² (48.27 ha, 119.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Knockardnacorlan 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.

• 28 Apr 2023Conditional

  the (a) Demolition of front and rear extensions to existing cottage, decommission existing septic tank and close up existing vehicular entrance, (b) construction of a single storey extension to existing cottage with alterations and elevation changes to existing cottage, construction of a new detached domestic garage, new entrance with entrance walls, install new mechanical aeration unit and polishing filter system with all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 23230

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 Knockardnacorlan.

Recorded monuments

• LI019-017 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, atop limestone hill. Circular area (32.4m N-S) has been truncated on S side by E-W field boundary (now 25.9m N-S). It is enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.47m; ext. H 0.35m) SSW->ESE and defined by straight dry-stone field boundary ESE->SSW. Bank is best preserved N->NE but lowers at W. It has been partially quarried out at E leaving shallow weed-covered depression (Wth 7.1m) extending into interior for 10.4m. Interior surface, under rough pasture, is uneven due to exposed limestone outcrops and slopes down to S. A linear earth-and-stone bank (H 0.45m) abuts bank at NNE and extends into field on NNE-SSW axis for 62m where it turns down-slope to W for 35m before fading out. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI019-021 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle SE-facing slope, just below brow of low ridge. Circular area (35.2m N-S; 37.2m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.4m; ext. H 1.65m), with external fosse (Wth 1.45m; D 0.2m) W->N. Dip in bank ENE->ESE (Wth 9.3m). Low earthen bank (H 0.4m; Wth 2.8m) extends out to E for c. 45m, from bank at SE. Level interior is covered by rough grazing and thistles. Field boundaries skirt enclosure at S and W meeting just SW of enclosure. Area between enclosure and corner of field is occupies by recently erected hay-barn. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI019-022 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on ESE-facing slope immediately below brow of low ridge. Circular area (34.8m N-S; 33.7m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.5m; ext. H 1.8m), with external fosse (D 0.2m; Wth 1.3m) ESE->SSW, WSW->NNW and NE->E, and an external bank (H 0.3m) ESE->SSW. Internal bank best preserver SW->E but becomes low and scarp-like E->SE(int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.55m). Slight dip in banks (Wth 4.1m) at SSE probable entrance. Bank covered by thorn and briars on W and N sides. Level interior covered in rough pasture and thistles. 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 Knockardnacorlan.

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 Knockardnacorlan, about 1 in 10 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_436 (ZIP).

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

Name

Knockardnacorlan · Cnoc Ard na Cartlann

Area

971,613 m² (97.16 ha, 240.09 acres)

Civil parish

Robertstown, and its townlands

Barony

Shanid

Electoral division

Craggs, the unit of the census

Census 2022

258 people lived in 92 households in the Craggs electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 16% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Kimeheer, Monavaha, Oldabbey, Parkmore, Robertstown, Sroolane, Sroolane South, Stokesfield

Placenames

Knockardnacorlan 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.