Knockcorragh

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockcorragh, from 95 m² to 392,477 m² (39.25 ha, 96.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 6 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 Knockcorragh 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Knockcorragh in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Knockcorragh.

Recorded monuments

• LI023-087 Mound
  Description

  In pasture, on top of high rocky crag; good views all around. Flat-topped circular mound (top: 11.5m N-S; 11.2m E-W; overall diam. 30m) defined by scarped edge (Wth 8.15-10.8m; H 4.6-4.85m). Rock outcrop protrudes from scarp all around, some in an irregular vertical fashion. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 18 November 2013

• LI023-088 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In pasture, on top of natural hillock. Circular area (17.2m N-S; 18m E-W) defined by bank reduced to uneven scarped edge (Wth 8m; H 2.75m). Revetment of stones face scarp sw to N and vertical scarp formed by face of rock outcrop SW to N. External fosse (basal Wth 2.7m; overall Wth 8.9m; D 0.6m) is cut into rock outcrop and is best preserved NW-NE and shallower NE-E, not evident E-SSW, visible cut into rock again SSW-SW, non-existent SW-NW. Interior is generally level and covered in rough grazing. OS trig point on edge of scarp at NNW. Probably associated with surrounding field system (LI023-273----). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 18 November 2013

• LI023-217 Enclosure
  Description

  Identified from an aerial photograph (Bruff Survey: Map 23, Bruff 142: AP 4/3658) and described by Doody (2008, 132) as a 'subcircular ditched enclosure, c. 40m x 25m; the morphology of this enclosure indicates that it may be Bronze Age in date (ibid.). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 7 November 2013

• LI023-246 Enclosure
  Description

  Identified from an aerial photograph (Bruff Survey: Map 23, Bruff 272.01: AP 4/3658) and described by Doody (2008, 132) as a 'subcircular enclosure, c. 35m x 30m'; the morphology of this enclosure indicates that it may be Bronze Age in date (ibid.). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 7 November 2013

• LI023-247 Enclosure
  Description

  Identified from an aerial photograph (Bruff Survey: Map 23, Bruff 272.02: AP 4/3658) and described by Doody (2008, 132) as a 'subcircular ditched enclosure, c. 50m x 40m, with internal bank, possibly platformed'; the morphology of this enclosure indicates that it may be Bronze Age in date (ibid.). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 7 November 2013

• LI023-273 Field system
  Description

  In pasture, on top and around the sides of a natural hillock 350m NW of the Camoge River and the townland boundary with Cahercorney, with excellent views in all directions. The cashel on the summit of Knockcorragh (LI023-088----) is located within the field system. The field system is partially depicted on the OSi 1840 ed. 6-inch as a dashed line suggesting it was a series of relic field boundaries at the time. It is not depicted on the 1897 ed. 25-inch map. The field system and enclosures /hut sites are visible on the OSi orthoimages taken 2005-12 and on the Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Identified as a relic field system around a cashel (LI023-088----) by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 280: AP 4/3689). A substantial field boundary extends from around the N side of the cashel (LI023-088----) orientated E-W. The NW end of this field boundary curves around the N edge of the fort. A separate field boundary runs S off this E-W field boundary and curves to the W forming and field enclosure (ext. diam. 45m N-S; 45m E-W) adjoining the SE side of the cashel. This field contains 3 further smaller enclosures located 10m SE of the cashel (LI023-088----) which may be hut sites (2 circular (ext. diam. 8m) and 1 rectangular (ext. diam. 8m). There are further features located in the field adjacent to the cashel, although these are unconfirmed and may also reflect the underlying rocky topography. The field system extends SW to the mound (LI023-087----) located on a spur at the foot of the hill and to the S and E. The field system and enclosures are visible on Digital Google Earth orthoimages taken 5/4/06, 25/03/2017 and 28/06/2018. See attached Bruff survey image labelled Bruff 280 and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 7 September 2020

Architectural heritage

• Caherelly Cottage, house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay single-storey house, built c. 1830, with gabled single-bay single-storey entrance porch to front (north) elevation. Flat-roofed single-bay single-storey porch to rear (south). Pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks. Timber bargeboard and finial to porch. Rendered walls with render quoins. Square-headed openings with replacement uPVC windows and rendered block-and-start surrounds. Segmental-headed door opening with timber panelled door having surrounding lights. Outbuilding to south-west with pitched slate roof, red brick chimneystacks, rendered walls and square-headed openings with timber battened doors and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Rendered wall with render copings and square-profile rendered piers and wrought-iron gate.

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 moderately high, moderately low, 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 Knockcorragh.

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

Name

Knockcorragh · An Cnoc Corrach

Area

531,126 m² (53.11 ha, 131.24 acres)

Civil parish

Caherelly, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Caherelly, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Caherelly electoral division: 388 people in 117 households; 90% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballysallagh, Cahercorney, Caherelly East, Caherelly West

Placenames

Knockcorragh 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.