Knocklary
Knocklary is a townland in the civil parish of Ballingarry (Kilmallock Ra), barony of Coshlea, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Cnoc Láithrigh.
- Area
- 128.9 ha
- 319 acres
- Land parcels
- 33
- registered freehold, median 4,767 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocklary, from 347 m² to 293,556 m² (29.36 ha, 72.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Knocklary 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
9 Jul 2026N/a
Domestic Dwelling, Domestic Garage, entrance gates and piers, bored well & Secondary Treatment System and soil polishing filter and connections to all existing services & associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660781
9 Jun 2026Conditional
demolition of a slatted tank and permission to construct a Cubicle House with slatted tank, effluent tank and ancillary works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660642
7 Feb 2018Conditional
the construction of a single storey extension attached to the side of an existing dwelling house, construction of porch to front of existing dwelling, refurbishment of existing dwelling, construction of detached domestic garage, improvements to existing entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 1894
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knocklary.
Recorded monuments
- LI049-270 Barrow - ditch barrow
Description
In wet pasture 80m W of a watercourse and 75m E of the townland boundary with Cloghast. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a circular cropmark on oblique aerial photography as a possible ditch-barrow. Visible as a faint circular-shaped cropmark (diam c. 8m) on oblique aerial image (ASIAP). No surface remains visible on Google earth orthoimages See attached oblique aerial image and Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 5 October 2021
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knocklary.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Knocklary, 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 Knocklary.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Knocklary with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Knocklary · Cnoc Láithrigh
- Area
- 1,289,263 m² (128.93 ha, 318.58 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballingarry (Kilmallock Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Coshlea
- Electoral division
- Glenbrohane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 474 people lived in 186 households in the Glenbrohane electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballingarry, Ballyfroota, Cloghast, Glenbrohane, Mitchelstowndown
- Placenames
- Knocklary 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.