# Knockcorragh, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Caherelly, barony of Clanwilliam, Co. Limerick; in Irish An Cnoc Corrach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 531,126 m² (53.11 ha, 131.24 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,584 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Caherelly, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/caherelly.md - Barony: Clanwilliam - Electoral division: Caherelly, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 388 people lived in 117 households in the Caherelly electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/31344 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 121398 - Centre: latitude 52.54101, longitude -8.494372 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockcorragh, from 95 m² to 392,477 m² (39.25 ha, 96.98 acres); 6 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1604544: 392,477 m² (39.25 ha, 96.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1604544.md - Parcel 1661146: 135,532 m² (13.55 ha, 33.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1661146.md - Parcel 1674225: 2,584 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1674225.md - Parcel 3267569: 1,224 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3267569.md - Parcel 1663581: 95 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1663581.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Knockcorragh in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## 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 Knockcorragh. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI023-087: Mound, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI023-087----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI023-088----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI023-217----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI023-246----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI023-247----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI023-273----. 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 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) - Caherelly Cottage, house, 1820–1840, Regional interest, registry number 21902311, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC®no=21902311. 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. ## 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 Knockcorragh, 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 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 Knockcorragh. - 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/knockcorragh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/knockcorragh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/knockcorragh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Knockcorragh 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) - Ballysallagh: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballysallagh.md - Cahercorney: https://everytownland.com/limerick/cahercorney.md - Caherelly East: https://everytownland.com/limerick/caherelly-east.md - Caherelly West: https://everytownland.com/limerick/caherelly-west.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/knockcorragh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/knockcorragh