# Knockbrien, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Cahernarry, barony of Clanwilliam, Co. Limerick; in Irish Cnoc Bhriain. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 312,514 m² (31.25 ha, 77.22 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,663 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 7 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Cahernarry, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/cahernarry.md - Barony: Clanwilliam - Electoral division: Ballysimon, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 16,540 people lived in 5,566 households in the Ballysimon electoral division. 59% of households owned their home. 52% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/31209 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 121394 - Centre: latitude 52.599713, longitude -8.553752 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockbrien, from 224 m² to 39,364 m² (3.94 ha, 9.73 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1647884: 39,364 m² (3.94 ha, 9.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1647884.md - Parcel 1624777: 37,641 m² (3.76 ha, 9.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1624777.md - Parcel 1622077: 37,627 m² (3.76 ha, 9.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1622077.md - Parcel 1626946: 36,944 m² (3.69 ha, 9.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1626946.md - Parcel 1660379: 34,764 m² (3.48 ha, 8.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1660379.md - Parcel 1604823: 29,643 m² (2.96 ha, 7.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1604823.md - Parcel 1599924: 23,733 m² (2.37 ha, 5.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1599924.md - Parcel 2531511: 18,176 m² (1.82 ha, 4.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2531511.md - Parcel 4928655: 13,679 m² (1.37 ha, 3.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4928655.md - Parcel 1602040: 5,342 m² (0.53 ha, 1.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1602040.md - Parcel 1598622: 3,124 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1598622.md - Parcel 1595586: 2,787 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1595586.md - Parcel 1636949: 2,750 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1636949.md - Parcel 1658153: 2,713 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1658153.md - Parcel 1665925: 2,613 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1665925.md - Parcel 1661335: 2,525 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1661335.md - Parcel 1672076: 2,442 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1672076.md - Parcel 1653984: 2,419 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1653984.md - Parcel 1605822: 2,360 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1605822.md - Parcel 1661796: 2,314 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1661796.md - Parcel 1600463: 2,130 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1600463.md - Parcel 1603195: 2,086 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1603195.md - Parcel 1602415: 1,943 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1602415.md - Parcel 3354011: 1,797 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3354011.md - Parcel 1667147: 796 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1667147.md - Parcel 1674577: 458 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1674577.md - Parcel 1650813: 282 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1650813.md - Parcel 1673826: 224 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1673826.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 7 applications, newest first. - 25 Sept 2026, Limerick County Council 2661122: N/a. Outline permission. the construction of a dwelling house, install an on-site effluent treatment system, modify/co-share an existing site entrance including all associated site development works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2661122/0 - 10 Oct 2025, Limerick County Council 2561029: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561029/0 - 25 Oct 2019, Limerick County Council 191062: Conditional. Permission. an ESB single MV substation, switch room, concrete base pad for the transformer at the existing bottling plant. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/191062/0 - 3 Sept 2018, Limerick County Council 18872: Refused. Permission. 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. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/18872/0 - 27 Jul 2018, Limerick County Council 18761: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/18761/0 - 16 Mar 2018, Limerick County Council 18254: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/18254/0 - 27 Apr 2017, Limerick County Council 17372: Conditional. Retention. 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. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/17372/0 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 Knockbrien. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI014-021: Boundary stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI014-021----. 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 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 Knockbrien. ## 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 Knockbrien, 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 low. - 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, 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/knockbrien.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/knockbrien.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/knockbrien.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Knockbrien 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) - Ballyneety: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyneety-120375.md - Ballyogartha: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyogartha.md - Edwardstown: https://everytownland.com/limerick/edwardstown.md - Glen: https://everytownland.com/limerick/glen-121071.md - Scart: https://everytownland.com/limerick/scart-121796.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/knockbrien - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/knockbrien