Knockcommane

59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockcommane, from 31 m² to 166,068 m² (16.61 ha, 41.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Knockcommane 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.

• 27 Oct 2020Conditional

  the construction of a single storey extension to the side of the existing dwelling house with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 201088

• 18 Jul 2018Conditional

  a detached storage shed

  Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 18728

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 Knockcommane.

Recorded monuments

• LI058-011 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  (diam. c. 28m) defined by an earthen bank (base Wth 3.8m; int. H 0.4m; ext. h 0.7m). Interior slopes slightly to ENE. Interior dry and planted with mature coniferous trees. No entrance feature visible. The base of the bank has been revetted with modern herringbone stone walling on N side only. See attached sketch plan and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 26 October 2021

• LI060-007 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  In pasture, on crest of low gentle rise with good views from NW-NE. Remains consist of a slightly sunken circular-shaped area (diam. 10m) defined by a scarp with shallow fosse (Wth 2.3m; ext. D 0.2m). Interior level, dry and clear of overgrowth. Faint cropmark of ditch-barrow visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018. See attached sketch plan and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 27 October 2021

• LI060-010001 Enclosure
  Description

  Enclosure excavated by Bernice Molloy, which is described as 'a segmented gully or ditch that bounded an area 15m in diameter' (McQuade; Molloy & Moriarty 2009, 150-3). Radiocarbon dates place it in the Iron Age (357-47 BC) and it is associated with a bowl furnace (LI060-010002-) .

• LI060-010002 Furnace
  Description

  Enclosure (LI060-010001-) excavated by Bernice Molloy, which is described as 'a segmented gully or ditch that bounded an area 15m in diameter' (McQuade; Molloy & Moriarty 2009, 150-3). Radiocarbon dates place it in the Iron Age (357-47 BC) and it is associated with a bowl furnace (LI060-010002-) .

• LI060-011 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  This site was identified during Phase II test excavation of the N8 Cashel to Mitchelstown road improvement scheme carried out in May 2006. The site was subsequently excavated between 27 June and 12 July 2006. This site consisted of a ring-barrow located near the brow of a gradual north-west-facing slope. There was one cremation burial centrally placed in the barrow and at least four token deposits of cremated bone were found in the fill of the ditch. This site enclosed an area 7m in diameter. The ditch was U-shaped in profile, with gradually sloping sides and a concave base. It had a maximum depth of 0.43m. The western extent of the ring-ditch was truncated and the ditch only survived to a depth of 0.15m. This site was located c. 550–600m to the east of two fulachta fiadh (Site 4602A2, see No. 1244 above, E2339; and Site 4705, see No. 1242 above, E2306) and 80m to the east of an enclosure site with a possible industrial function (see No. 1283 below, Site 47001B, E2342) (Excavations 2006 Site No. 1282; McQuade; Molloy & Moriarty 2009, 163-5).

Architectural heritage

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

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, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Knockcommane · Cnoc Comáin

Area

1,188,666 m² (118.87 ha, 293.73 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbeheny, and its townlands

Barony

Coshlea

Electoral division

Kilbeheny, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilbeheny electoral division: 270 people in 99 households; 87% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynatona, Brackbaun, Furrow (Co. Cork), Kiltankin (Co. Tipperary), Loughananna

Placenames

Knockcommane 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.