Knockcoolkeare

155 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockcoolkeare, from 43 m² to 278,556 m² (27.86 ha, 68.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 41 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 Knockcoolkeare 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.

• 8 Dec 2025Conditional

  conversion of the existing garage into a double-occupancy communal dwelling unit. Works include internal alterations to provide living, dining, and bathroom facilities for persons with intellectual or physical disabilities, along with modifications to external elevations and all associated site works. The proposed unit will have a gross floor area of 98sqm and will be located to the rear of the existing main residential care unit.• Retention Permission for an already installed wastewater treatment system and sand polishing filter, including all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2561286

• 15 Nov 2023Conditional

  a children's playground, including fencing, lighting installations and ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 23550

• 12 Aug 2022Conditional

  the extensions to both the Eastern and Western elevations of an existing dwelling and changes to an existing dwelling house both internally and externally as well as all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 22886

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
• Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161

Recorded monuments

• LI052-013 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture, on a break in a NNW-facing slope. The monument, which is depicted as a kidney-shaped mound on the 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. However, it is now evident as a spread of burnt material covering a roughly oval-shaped area (25m E-W; 14m N-S). 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 Knockcoolkeare.

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 Knockcoolkeare, about 1 in 5 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

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

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

Name

Knockcoolkeare · Cnoc Cúile Caor

Area

2,737,643 m² (273.76 ha, 676.49 acres)

Civil parish

Killeedy, and its townlands

Barony

Glenquin

Electoral division

Mountcollins, the unit of the census

Census 2022

492 people lived in 220 households in the Mountcollins electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Acres, Brosna East (Co. Kerry), Caherlevoy, Meennaraheeny (Co. Cork), Milleenboy (Co. Cork), Mountcollins, Seeconglas

Placenames

Knockcoolkeare 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.