Knockdown

68 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockdown, from 25 m² to 479,788 m² (47.98 ha, 118.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 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 Knockdown 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.

• 30 Aug 2023Conditional

  demolition of existing single storey fire damaged retail shop and ancillary areas, construction of a replacement retail shop with storage area, toilets, office and ancillary rooms, relocation of existing diesel pumps, installation of above ground diesel storage tanks within covered structure, alterations to existing forecourt layout with existing connection to all existing services with all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2360628

• 19 Jan 2018Conditional

  widen and upgrade an existing entrance and access road to existing forestry block along with ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 1842

• 28 Dec 2017Conditional

  the widening of an entrance and access road to a forestry block and all associated site services

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 171237

• 19 Dec 2017Conditional

  existing outdoor covered area which serves existing public house and planning permission to carry out minor elevational changes to front elevation of existing public house with existing connection to services and all associated site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 171208

• 1 Nov 2017N/a

  the widening of an entrance and access road to a forestry block and all associated site services

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 171008

• 28 Mar 2017Conditional

  the construction of an extension to the side of an existing dwelling house and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17268

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockdown.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knockdown, about 1 in 20 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 Knockdown.

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

Name

Knockdown · Cnoc Donn

Area

4,356,727 m² (435.67 ha, 1,076.57 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmoylan, and its townlands

Barony

Shanid

Electoral division

Kilmoylan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

398 people lived in 164 households in the Kilmoylan electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonlahard West, Glashapullagh, Glenbaun, Knocknagornagh, Tooraree Upper, Tooreendonnell

Placenames

Knockdown 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.