Knockfinnisk

83 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockfinnisk, from 199 m² to 496,601 m² (49.66 ha, 122.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 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 Knockfinnisk 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.

• 29 Aug 2026N/a

  the erection of a 30m high lattice telecommunications support structure together with antennae, dishes and associated telecommunications equipment, all enclosed by security fencing, and to extend the existing farm access track to provide access to the compound

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660998

• 29 Jun 2026N/a

  modifications, extension and renovation to existing dwelling house as constructed to include reroofing and elevational changes, permission for retention is also sought for the retention of an agricultural shed, widening of existing entrance and laying of hardcore driveway and yard

  Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660737

• 22 Apr 2022N/a

  foundations and rising walls to extension to rear of existing dwelling and permission to refurbish existing dwelling house and completion of extension, upgrade existing septic tank to a wastewater treatment and disposal system, domestic garage and all associated site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 22459

• 16 Nov 2021Conditional

  construction of a new dwelling house, detached garage, site entrance, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 211583

• 25 Jul 2017Conditional

  1. The construction of single storey dwelling house. 2. The construction of a domestic garage, 3. The installation of a wastewater treatment system and polishing filter 4. Entrance, driveway and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17712

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
• Natural Heritage Area: Carrigkerry Bogs NHA 002399

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockfinnisk.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knockfinnisk, about 1 in 5 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 Knockfinnisk.

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

Name

Knockfinnisk · Cnoc Finnisce

Area

4,112,855 m² (411.29 ha, 1,016.31 acres)

Civil parish

Dunmoylan, and its townlands

Barony

Shanid

Electoral division

Glensharrold, the unit of the census

Census 2022

446 people lived in 171 households in the Glensharrold electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bauraneag, Carrigkerry, Glenagower, Glenbaun, Glensharrold, Knockaclugga, Templeathea East, Tooreendonnell

Placenames

Knockfinnisk 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.