# Knockdown, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilmoylan, barony of Shanid, Co. Limerick; in Irish Cnoc Donn. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 4,356,727 m² (435.67 ha, 1,076.57 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 68 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 12,912 m² (1.29 ha, 3.19 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilmoylan, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/kilmoylan.md - Barony: Shanid - Electoral division: Kilmoylan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/30771 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 121400 - Centre: latitude 52.510587, longitude -9.234465 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 68 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockdown, from 25 m² to 479,788 m² (47.98 ha, 118.56 acres); 34 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1662917: 479,788 m² (47.98 ha, 118.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1662917.md - Parcel 1627149: 371,523 m² (37.15 ha, 91.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1627149.md - Parcel 1669640: 323,625 m² (32.36 ha, 79.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1669640.md - Parcel 1639387: 291,978 m² (29.2 ha, 72.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1639387.md - Parcel 1669639: 265,884 m² (26.59 ha, 65.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1669639.md - Parcel 1637346: 265,125 m² (26.51 ha, 65.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1637346.md - Parcel 1604930: 238,339 m² (23.83 ha, 58.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1604930.md - Parcel 5375784: 194,791 m² (19.48 ha, 48.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5375784.md - Parcel 1650568: 166,354 m² (16.64 ha, 41.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1650568.md - Parcel 1639389: 155,778 m² (15.58 ha, 38.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1639389.md - Parcel 1614044: 153,915 m² (15.39 ha, 38.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1614044.md - Parcel 1615122: 143,324 m² (14.33 ha, 35.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1615122.md - Parcel 1596239: 133,715 m² (13.37 ha, 33.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1596239.md - Parcel 1673544: 131,580 m² (13.16 ha, 32.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1673544.md - Parcel 1599429: 121,205 m² (12.12 ha, 29.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1599429.md - Parcel 1669600: 108,300 m² (10.83 ha, 26.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1669600.md - Parcel 3311732: 83,375 m² (8.34 ha, 20.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3311732.md - Parcel 1594988: 81,823 m² (8.18 ha, 20.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1594988.md - Parcel 1668473: 80,131 m² (8.01 ha, 19.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1668473.md - Parcel 1669638: 47,390 m² (4.74 ha, 11.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1669638.md - Parcel 3341237: 44,784 m² (4.48 ha, 11.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3341237.md - Parcel 1653672: 37,482 m² (3.75 ha, 9.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1653672.md - Parcel 3317306: 33,575 m² (3.36 ha, 8.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3317306.md - Parcel 1652807: 31,786 m² (3.18 ha, 7.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1652807.md - Parcel 5374873: 19,579 m² (1.96 ha, 4.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5374873.md - Parcel 1594932: 18,310 m² (1.83 ha, 4.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1594932.md - Parcel 1638557: 16,998 m² (1.7 ha, 4.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1638557.md - Parcel 1639388: 16,758 m² (1.68 ha, 4.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1639388.md - Parcel 1614671: 16,603 m² (1.66 ha, 4.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1614671.md - Parcel 1595019: 15,974 m² (1.6 ha, 3.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1595019.md - Parcel 1637343: 15,115 m² (1.51 ha, 3.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1637343.md - Parcel 3265597: 13,546 m² (1.35 ha, 3.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3265597.md - Parcel 1652313: 13,273 m² (1.33 ha, 3.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1652313.md - Parcel 1629262: 13,084 m² (1.31 ha, 3.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1629262.md - Parcel 1639386: 12,740 m² (1.27 ha, 3.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1639386.md - Parcel 1631215: 12,729 m² (1.27 ha, 3.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1631215.md - Parcel 1658643: 12,173 m² (1.22 ha, 3.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1658643.md - Parcel 1605580: 11,903 m² (1.19 ha, 2.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1605580.md - Parcel 3641740: 11,157 m² (1.12 ha, 2.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3641740.md - Parcel 1669637: 10,750 m² (1.07 ha, 2.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1669637.md - Parcel 1594983: 9,663 m² (0.97 ha, 2.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1594983.md - Parcel 1595018: 9,468 m² (0.95 ha, 2.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1595018.md - Parcel 1655511: 9,077 m² (0.91 ha, 2.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1655511.md - Parcel 1629259: 7,236 m² (0.72 ha, 1.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1629259.md - Parcel 1594987: 6,450 m² (0.65 ha, 1.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1594987.md - Parcel 1595017: 6,286 m² (0.63 ha, 1.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1595017.md - Parcel 1631214: 5,847 m² (0.58 ha, 1.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1631214.md - Parcel 1595020: 5,262 m² (0.53 ha, 1.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1595020.md - Parcel 1645135: 5,158 m² (0.52 ha, 1.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1645135.md - Parcel 1588441: 4,981 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1588441.md - Parcel 1638680: 4,975 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1638680.md - Parcel 1663592: 4,739 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1663592.md - Parcel 1655832: 4,451 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1655832.md - Parcel 3265598: 4,104 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3265598.md - Parcel 1639149: 3,799 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1639149.md - Parcel 1651921: 3,762 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1651921.md - Parcel 1603717: 3,682 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1603717.md - Parcel 1629743: 3,523 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1629743.md - Parcel 1629260: 3,281 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1629260.md - Parcel 1607886: 3,049 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1607886.md - Parcel 1674148: 2,769 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1674148.md - Parcel 1637344: 2,729 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1637344.md - Parcel 1665099: 2,469 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1665099.md - Parcel 1653155: 2,164 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1653155.md - Parcel 2454914: 2,105 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2454914.md - Parcel 1629744: 1,565 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1629744.md - Parcel 1653384: 1,268 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1653384.md - Parcel 1647532: 25 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1647532.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 6 applications, newest first. - 30 Aug 2023, Limerick County Council 2360628: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360628/0 - 19 Jan 2018, Limerick County Council 1842: Conditional. Permission. widen and upgrade an existing entrance and access road to existing forestry block along with ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/1842/0 - 28 Dec 2017, Limerick County Council 171237: Conditional. Permission. the widening of an entrance and access road to a forestry block and all associated site services. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/171237/0 - 19 Dec 2017, Limerick County Council 171208: Conditional. Retention. 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. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/171208/0 - 1 Nov 2017, Limerick County Council 171008: N/a. Permission. the widening of an entrance and access road to a forestry block and all associated site services. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/171008/0 - 28 Mar 2017, Limerick County Council 17268: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the construction of an extension to the side of an existing dwelling house and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/17268/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA, site code 004161, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004161 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockdown. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockdown. ## 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 Knockdown, about 1 in 20 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 Knockdown. - 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/knockdown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/knockdown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/knockdown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Knockdown 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) - Cloonlahard West: https://everytownland.com/limerick/cloonlahard-west.md - Glashapullagh: https://everytownland.com/limerick/glashapullagh.md - Glenbaun: https://everytownland.com/limerick/glenbaun.md - Knocknagornagh: https://everytownland.com/limerick/knocknagornagh.md - Tooraree Upper: https://everytownland.com/limerick/tooraree-upper.md - Tooreendonnell: https://everytownland.com/limerick/tooreendonnell.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/knockdown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/knockdown