# Knockfenora, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Bruree, barony of Connello Upper, Co. Limerick; in Irish Cnoc Fhionnúrach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,358,230 m² (135.82 ha, 335.63 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 5,015 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): R2 Existing Residential, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Bruree, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/bruree.md - Barony: Connello Upper - Electoral division: Bruree, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/30840 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 121406 - Centre: latitude 52.4318, longitude -8.664397 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockfenora, from 211 m² to 321,466 m² (32.15 ha, 79.44 acres); 28 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1600972: 321,466 m² (32.15 ha, 79.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1600972.md - Parcel 1588403: 212,483 m² (21.25 ha, 52.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1588403.md - Parcel 3265736: 196,889 m² (19.69 ha, 48.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3265736.md - Parcel 1600971: 129,443 m² (12.94 ha, 31.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1600971.md - Parcel 1662675: 84,186 m² (8.42 ha, 20.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1662675.md - Parcel 1602771: 81,304 m² (8.13 ha, 20.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1602771.md - Parcel 1602768: 81,102 m² (8.11 ha, 20.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1602768.md - Parcel 1662680: 61,142 m² (6.11 ha, 15.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1662680.md - Parcel 1602775: 53,796 m² (5.38 ha, 13.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1602775.md - Parcel 1662678: 47,184 m² (4.72 ha, 11.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1662678.md - Parcel 1602766: 14,140 m² (1.41 ha, 3.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1602766.md - Parcel 1662677: 12,462 m² (1.25 ha, 3.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1662677.md - Parcel 3773781: 5,918 m² (0.59 ha, 1.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3773781.md - Parcel 4900090: 4,112 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4900090.md - Parcel 2514770: 3,470 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2514770.md - Parcel 1620886: 3,091 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1620886.md - Parcel 1628035: 2,877 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1628035.md - Parcel 1640215: 2,428 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1640215.md - Parcel 1674131: 2,368 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1674131.md - Parcel 1673503: 1,651 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1673503.md - Parcel 1629271: 1,433 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1629271.md - Parcel 2599919: 1,184 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2599919.md - Parcel 2599914: 1,168 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2599914.md - Parcel 1666351: 511 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1666351.md - Parcel 1670460: 219 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1670460.md - Parcel 1665607: 211 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1665607.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - R2 Existing Residential (Existing residential): Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick; 4 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.limerick.ie/sites/default/files/media/documents/2022-07/Volume-2b-Level-4-5-and-6.pdf#page=13 - C2.1 Enterprise & Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment): Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick; 1 parcel. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.limerick.ie/sites/default/files/media/documents/2022-07/Volume-2b-Level-4-5-and-6.pdf#page=13 ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 2 Dec 2025, Limerick County Council 2561256: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a new dwelling house, wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, vehicular entrance and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561256/0 - 11 Dec 2024, Limerick County Council 2461240: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461240/0 - 20 Dec 2021, Limerick County Council 211777: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. a dwelling house, entrance, boundary walls, an onsite waste water treatment and disposal system, and all associated works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/211777/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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 Knockfenora. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI039-163: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI039-163----. 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 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockfenora. ## 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 Knockfenora, 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 Knockfenora. - 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/knockfenora.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/knockfenora.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/knockfenora.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Knockfenora 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) - Ballynoe: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballynoe-120384.md - Bruree: https://everytownland.com/limerick/bruree.md - Cappanafaraha: https://everytownland.com/limerick/cappanafaraha.md - Dromacummer East: https://everytownland.com/limerick/dromacummer-east.md - Dromacummer West: https://everytownland.com/limerick/dromacummer-west.md - Knockmore: https://everytownland.com/limerick/knockmore.md - Lotteragh Lower: https://everytownland.com/limerick/lotteragh-lower.md - Lotteragh Upper: https://everytownland.com/limerick/lotteragh-upper.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/knockfenora - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/knockfenora