Knockrour

56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockrour, from 19 m² to 84,372 m² (8.44 ha, 20.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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 Knockrour 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.

• 20 Feb 2025Conditional

  an all-weather pitch with two floodlighting columns and all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2538

• 20 May 2024Conditional

  the construction of a gym, comprising of a 10m x 22m steel frame and cladded facia, the construction of a precast wall, relocation of an existing septic tank and all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 24211

• 16 Mar 2021Conditional

  alterations to internal of school, the construction of a single storey extension containing 1 no classroom and store, also permission to remove boiler house chimney and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 21309

• 30 Jun 2020Conditional

  construction of a dwelling, garage, entrance, septic tank & percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20569

• 13 Mar 2018Conditional

  Extension of Permission from planning file ref. no. 12/833 : the construction of dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank, percolation area, entrance and all ancillary works

  Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 187009

• 20 Feb 2018Conditional

  removing 2 no. existing chimneys located on the front elevation. Also permission to carry out internal modification works which include removal of dividing partitions between 2 no. classrooms and the provision of ensuite toilets to the rear of classroom

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 18148

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 Knockrour.

Recorded monuments

• LI058-005 Barrow - mound barrow
  Description

  In undulating wet pasture that has been reclaimed, on S facing slope with good views from NW to E. Remains consist of a slightly raised small sub-circular shaped area (diam. 4m N-S x 2.4m E-W) defined by a scarp with no trace of an enclosing fosse. Depicted as a small mound on Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map. Not indicated on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 20 October 2021

• LI058-016 Kiln - lime
  Description

  In pasture on NW facing slope. No surface remains visible. Annotated 'Lime Kiln' on 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 26 October 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knockrour, about 1 in 10 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 Knockrour.

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

Name

Knockrour · An Cnoc Ramhar

Area

961,452 m² (96.15 ha, 237.58 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbeheny, and its townlands

Barony

Coshlea

Electoral division

Knocknascrow, the unit of the census

Census 2022

241 people lived in 76 households in the Knocknascrow electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Behanagh, Boher, Castlequarter, Churchquarter, Coolboy, Scrowmore

Placenames

Knockrour 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.