Knockbrien

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockbrien, from 224 m² to 39,364 m² (3.94 ha, 9.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Knockbrien 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.

• 10 Oct 2025Conditional

  demolition of existing outbuildings and the construction of a two-storey extension to the existing single-storey dwelling house, revised vehicular entrance, installation of wastewater treatment unit, polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2561029

• 25 Oct 2019Conditional

  an ESB single MV substation, switch room, concrete base pad for the transformer at the existing bottling plant

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 191062

• 3 Sept 2018Refused

  extended operating hours for Line 1 from between 0800 hours and 2400 hours, Monday to Friday to twenty-four hours, seven days a week (including Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays), and extended operating hours for Line 2 from between 0800 hours to 1900 hours to twenty-four hours, seven days a week (including Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays) and all associated works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 18872

• 27 Jul 2018Conditional

  a warehouse extension (rear/southwest) and for alterations to a section of the front façade (northeast), signage and all associated works to the existing bottling plant

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 18761

• 16 Mar 2018N/a

  a warehouse extension (rear/southwest) and for alterations to a section of the front façade (northeast), signage and all associated works to the existing bottling plant

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 18254

• 27 Apr 2017Conditional

  an extension to the bottling plant within the forecourt of the existing facility (north easterly), retention of two wells, a separate pump house and associated ancillaries, and retention of the compressor room/generator house building, (south easterly) and all associated works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 17372

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 Knockbrien.

Recorded monuments

• LI014-021 Boundary stone
  Description

  Situated immediately E of a garden wall of recent construction, W of a road, opposite a post office and petrol station. A sub-rectangular limestone slab (H 0.51m; Wth. 0.58m; Th. 0.13m), smooth on its E face and otherwise rough-cut. It bears a faded inscription recording that this stone marked the boundary of the Liberties of the City of Limerick, and the date 1786. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 February 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Knockbrien · Cnoc Bhriain

Area

312,514 m² (31.25 ha, 77.22 acres)

Civil parish

Cahernarry, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Ballysimon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballysimon electoral division: 16,540 people in 5,566 households; 59% of households own their home; 52% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyneety, Ballyogartha, Edwardstown, Glen, Scart

Placenames

Knockbrien 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.