# Knockaunroe, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Dromkeen, barony of Coonagh, Co. Limerick; in Irish An Cnocán Rua. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 443,262 m² (44.33 ha, 109.53 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,492 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Dromkeen, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/dromkeen.md - Barony: Coonagh - Electoral division: Grean, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,548 people lived in 533 households in the Grean electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/32400 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 121389 - Centre: latitude 52.533984, longitude -8.364758 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockaunroe, from 594 m² to 186,984 m² (18.7 ha, 46.2 acres); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1607878: 186,984 m² (18.7 ha, 46.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1607878.md - Parcel 1590355: 57,918 m² (5.79 ha, 14.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1590355.md - Parcel 1602996: 53,698 m² (5.37 ha, 13.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1602996.md - Parcel 1647625: 41,269 m² (4.13 ha, 10.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1647625.md - Parcel 1662526: 41,240 m² (4.12 ha, 10.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1662526.md - Parcel 1602995: 40,497 m² (4.05 ha, 10.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1602995.md - Parcel 1593842: 5,862 m² (0.59 ha, 1.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1593842.md - Parcel 2481996: 3,122 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2481996.md - Parcel 1646147: 2,496 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1646147.md - Parcel 1674229: 2,354 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1674229.md - Parcel 1624987: 2,204 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1624987.md - Parcel 1622407: 2,177 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1622407.md - Parcel 5057601: 2,005 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5057601.md - Parcel 1602019: 594 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1602019.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Knockaunroe in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 24 Sept 2021, Limerick County Council 211330: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. construction of a dwelling house, detached garage, recessed site entrance, bored well, wastewater treatment system with all ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/211330/0 - 21 May 2021, Limerick County Council 21694: Conditional. Permission. demolition of a haybarn and construction of an agricultural shed with slatted tank and loose areas and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/21694/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knockaunroe. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI024-071: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI024-071----. On NW-facing slope, in pasture, with excellent views from SW-W-N-NE. Surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as a circular-shaped area (27m E-W; 25m N-S) enclosed by a bank (Wth 5.15m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 1.65m) visible from W-N and reduced to a scarp (H H 0.65m) from N-NNE-NE, with external fosse (Wth 6.9m; D 1.3m) is visible from E-S-WSW. The monument is cut into the upslope on S side and raised on N side to compensate for hillslope. The interior has a gentle NW-facing slope. Monument is visible as a circular-shaped tree-lined earthwork on ASI aerial photogrpahs (ASIAP 133, 1; 353, 3) taken 23/08/2000 and 05/01/2003. Visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018. See attached sketch plan and cross-sections surveyed and drawn by the ASI. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 19 July 2020 - LI024-313: Barrow - ring-barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI024-313----. The cropmark of a possible ringbarrow is evident on Google Earth aerial photographs, at this location. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 4 September 2013 - LI024-314: Barrow - ring-barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI024-314----. The cropmark of at least two possible ringbarrow is evident on Google Earth aerial photographs, at this location. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 4 September 2013 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockaunroe. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Knockaunroe, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knockaunroe. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/limerick/knockaunroe.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/knockaunroe.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/knockaunroe.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Knockaunroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick: https://everytownland.com/limerick.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballincassa: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballincassa.md - Cloghaderreen: https://everytownland.com/limerick/cloghaderreen.md - Coologe: https://everytownland.com/limerick/coologe-120754.md - Knockderk: https://everytownland.com/limerick/knockderk.md - Knockroe: https://everytownland.com/limerick/knockroe-121431.md - Scart: https://everytownland.com/limerick/scart-121798.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/limerick/knockaunroe - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/knockaunroe