# Knocksouna, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Tankardstown, barony of Coshma, Co. Limerick; in Irish Cnoc Samhna. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,812,064 m² (181.21 ha, 447.77 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,116 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Tankardstown, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/tankardstown.md - Barony: Coshma - 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/30848 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 121436 - Centre: latitude 52.40265, longitude -8.640341 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocksouna, from 45 m² to 459,094 m² (45.91 ha, 113.44 acres); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1613045: 459,094 m² (45.91 ha, 113.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1613045.md - Parcel 1619791: 447,851 m² (44.79 ha, 110.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1619791.md - Parcel 1656269: 439,385 m² (43.94 ha, 108.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1656269.md - Parcel 1668943: 113,518 m² (11.35 ha, 28.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1668943.md - Parcel 1617302: 94,228 m² (9.42 ha, 23.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1617302.md - Parcel 1610584: 70,157 m² (7.02 ha, 17.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1610584.md - Parcel 4852938: 45,100 m² (4.51 ha, 11.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4852938.md - Parcel 1616460: 39,412 m² (3.94 ha, 9.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1616460.md - Parcel 4646520: 33,984 m² (3.4 ha, 8.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4646520.md - Parcel 1603371: 7,788 m² (0.78 ha, 1.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1603371.md - Parcel 3907069: 7,032 m² (0.7 ha, 1.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3907069.md - Parcel 1659292: 4,471 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1659292.md - Parcel 1610242: 4,160 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1610242.md - Parcel 4852936: 3,485 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4852936.md - Parcel 1665057: 3,290 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1665057.md - Parcel 1597976: 3,116 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1597976.md - Parcel 1627211: 2,725 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1627211.md - Parcel 1609201: 2,523 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1609201.md - Parcel 1673984: 2,461 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1673984.md - Parcel 1645120: 2,350 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1645120.md - Parcel 1663161: 2,267 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1663161.md - Parcel 1628030: 2,008 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1628030.md - Parcel 1599469: 1,579 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1599469.md - Parcel 1642848: 1,340 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1642848.md - Parcel 1605614: 1,299 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1605614.md - Parcel 1590588: 1,246 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1590588.md - Parcel 1604962: 1,075 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1604962.md - Parcel 4852935: 251 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4852935.md - Parcel 1606934: 95 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1606934.md - Parcel 1658024: 69 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1658024.md - Parcel 1661769: 45 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1661769.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Knocksouna in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 27 Sept 2019, Limerick County Council 19961: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. converting an existing garage to an independent living unit with new extension connection to existing dwelling house and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/19961/0 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 Knocksouna. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI047-092: Hillfort, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI047-092----. The hillfort was recently described in the Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland as following; 'W of the village of Killmallock, circular multiple enclosure surrounding the summit of isolated hill overlooking the Loobagh River 200m to the S. The site has a total footprint of approximately 2.8ha. Bivallate for most of its circuit with widely spaced enclosing elements. No recorded entrance features. Immediately outside the inner enclosing element to the N are a number of earthworks and terraces which may comprise hut structures and relict field divisions. The internal enclosing element survives as a low lying bank. The outer enclosing feature is heavily overgrown and to the E is incorporated into a modern field system. The E side of the interior is overgrown with scrub. There have been no archaeological investigations of this hillfort. The hillfort was not recorded in any historic mapping' (http://hillforts.arch.ox.ac.uk/records/IR0684.html). Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 30 January 2020 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 Knocksouna. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 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, low (inferred). - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_956, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_956.zip (ZIP). - 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/knocksouna.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/knocksouna.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/knocksouna.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Knocksouna 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) - Ballyhinnaught: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyhinnaught.md - Ballynagoul: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballynagoul.md - Cloonlogue: https://everytownland.com/limerick/cloonlogue.md - Garroose: https://everytownland.com/limerick/garroose.md - Kilbreedy: https://everytownland.com/limerick/kilbreedy-121256.md - Tankardstown North: https://everytownland.com/limerick/tankardstown-north.md - Tankardstown South: https://everytownland.com/limerick/tankardstown-south.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/knocksouna - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/knocksouna