Knocknagornagh
Knocknagornagh is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmoylan, barony of Shanid, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Cnoc na gCoirneach.
- Area
- 687.9 ha
- 1,700 acres
- Land parcels
- 114
- registered freehold, median 9,173 m² (0.92 ha, 2.27 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
114 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknagornagh, from 106 m² to 1,147,683 m² (114.77 ha, 283.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 41 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 Knocknagornagh 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
15 Nov 2023Refused
extension of permission for planning ref. 18/903: a new storey and a half dormer extension and single storey flat roof extension, utilising existing site entrance and existing site access road, and all associated site works
Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 237032
12 Nov 2021Conditional
amendments to the granted planning application reference 14/955 and the subsequent grant of extension of time, reference 19/7032. The amendments consist of changes to the house and garage design and associated site layout
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211569
3 Sept 2020Conditional
an existing garage and planning permission for an extension to the side of the existing dwelling and all associated site works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 20864
23 Dec 2019Conditional
Extension of Permission for Planning Ref. No. 14/955: construction of a new dwelling house, detached garage, site entrance, waste water treatment system percolation area and all associated site works
Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 197032
17 Sept 2018Conditional
a new storey and a half dormer extension and single storey flat roof extension, utilising existing site entrance and existing site access road, and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 18903
26 Oct 2017Conditional
the construction of a sunroom to the side of the existing dwelling and a new garage to the rear and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17989
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
- Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knocknagornagh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knocknagornagh.
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 Knocknagornagh, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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 Knocknagornagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Knocknagornagh · Cnoc na gCoirneach
- Area
- 6,878,868 m² (687.89 ha, 1,699.81 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmoylan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shanid
- Electoral division
- Kilmoylan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 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.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Derreen, Dromreask, Glashapullagh, Knockdown, Templeathea East, Templeathea West, Tooreendonnell
- Placenames
- Knocknagornagh 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.