Knockfenora

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockfenora, from 211 m² to 321,466 m² (32.15 ha, 79.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1Enterprise & Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 2 Dec 2025Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling house, wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, vehicular entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2561256

• 11 Dec 2024Conditional

  a new food production factory. The ground floor will include: a new entrance, reception/office, entrance hall, toilets, staff room, product testing room, production area, fridge room, ingredients and packaging areas, pallet store, transpost office, deliveries, maintenance shed, boiler house, bunded storage tanks, staff and visitor parking and connection to the existing foul and stormwater systems. The first floor will include: sales office, stair shaft, toilet, production area store

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2461240

• 20 Dec 2021Conditional

  a dwelling house, entrance, boundary walls, an onsite waste water treatment and disposal system, and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211777

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 Knockfenora.

Recorded monuments

• LI039-163 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture immediately E of disused railway track. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as an oval-shaped enclosure from aerial photograph (ASIAP (372) 32) taken 10/05/2003. Faint traces of monument visible as a cropmark on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020. See attached aerial photograph (ASIAP (372) 32) and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 13 May 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knockfenora, 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 Knockfenora.

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

Name

Knockfenora · Cnoc Fhionnúrach

Area

1,358,230 m² (135.82 ha, 335.63 acres)

Civil parish

Bruree, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Upper

Electoral division

Bruree, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,294 people lived in 406 households in the Bruree electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynoe, Bruree, Cappanafaraha, Dromacummer East, Dromacummer West, Knockmore, Lotteragh Lower, Lotteragh Upper

Placenames

Knockfenora 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.