# Knocklore, Co. Louth: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Charlestown, barony of Ardee, Co. Louth; in Irish Cnoc Lór. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 797,823 m² (79.78 ha, 197.15 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,780 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Charlestown, https://everytownland.com/louth/parish/charlestown.md - Barony: Ardee - Electoral division: Ardee Rural, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 3,009 people lived in 1,003 households in the Ardee Rural electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Louth, https://everytownland.com/louth.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/33461 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 140369 - Centre: latitude 53.899454, longitude -6.582908 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocklore, from 3 m² to 190,363 m² (19.04 ha, 47.04 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1131404: 190,363 m² (19.04 ha, 47.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1131404.md - Parcel 1123559: 189,900 m² (18.99 ha, 46.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1123559.md - Parcel 1121186: 114,855 m² (11.49 ha, 28.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1121186.md - Parcel 1117024: 108,379 m² (10.84 ha, 26.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1117024.md - Parcel 5039489: 98,682 m² (9.87 ha, 24.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5039489.md - Parcel 1117660: 62,697 m² (6.27 ha, 15.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1117660.md - Parcel 2726131: 39,772 m² (3.98 ha, 9.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2726131.md - Parcel 1117978: 20,654 m² (2.07 ha, 5.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1117978.md - Parcel 2726133: 13,879 m² (1.39 ha, 3.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2726133.md - Parcel 2723336: 3,369 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2723336.md - Parcel 2673412: 2,998 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2673412.md - Parcel 2746940: 2,514 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2746940.md - Parcel 1103225: 2,219 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1103225.md - Parcel 2696930: 2,201 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2696930.md - Parcel 5549158: 1,780 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5549158.md - Parcel 2696925: 1,257 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2696925.md - Parcel 1123286: 1,091 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1123286.md - Parcel 1091182: 958 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1091182.md - Parcel 5008115: 871 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5008115.md - Parcel 1132581: 811 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1132581.md - Parcel 1099351: 486 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1099351.md - Parcel 1133390: 421 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1133390.md - Parcel 2763954: 335 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2763954.md - Parcel 2761808: 210 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2761808.md - Parcel 2726151: 145 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2726151.md - Parcel 1093974: 127 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1093974.md - Parcel 4933097: 77 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4933097.md - Parcel 2723379: 11 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2723379.md - Parcel 5549136: 3 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5549136.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Knocklore 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. - 17 Jul 2017, Louth County Council 17547: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Permission to construct single storey extension to dwelling, proprietary effluent treatment system & tertiary reed bed and integration filter, decommissioning of existing septic tank and for site development works including alterations to entrance boundary treatment.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/17547/0 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 Knocklore. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LH014-014001: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLH014-014001-. The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Indicated on current OS 25 inch sheet as oval platform (max. dims. 54m NNE-SSW, 42m WNW-ESE) with bank on top in NW quadrant. Local recollections of finding human bones. No visible surface trace. (See also LH014-014002-) - LH014-014002: Burial mound, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLH014-014002-. The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Situated in destroyed enclosure (LH014-014001-) and consisting of an artificially raised mound which contained about twenty burials according to a local informant in 1967. A ridge or bank extended through the centre of the site. The graves consisted of rectangular trenches c. 1.8m long and were filled with dark earth. The burials were orientated E-W. The above description is based on information received from the then owner of the land at the time of the destruction of the enclosure. The site is referred to as 'Lis na Kelic' in the OS Letters (CLAJ 1910, 291), which is possibly a corruption of 'Liss na Relig'. - LH014-066: Burnt spread, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLH014-066----. Discovered prior to road construction (Excavation Licence No. 98E0125 (Sites C, D and E)). Excavation revealed thin spreads of grey soil, with occasional charcoal flecks. No diagnostic finds were recovered from these spreads. (Breen 2000, 153) Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 31 May 2012 - LH014-067: Fulacht fia, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLH014-067----. Discovered prior to road construction (Excavation Licence No. 98E0125 (Site G)). Excavation uncovered three circular hollow areas which were filled with burnt stones and charcoal rich soil. (Breen 2000, 153) Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 31 May 2012 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 Knocklore. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Knocklore, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knocklore. - 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/louth/knocklore.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/louth/knocklore.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/louth/knocklore.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Knocklore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth: https://everytownland.com/louth.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Arthurstown: https://everytownland.com/louth/arthurstown.md - Charlestown: https://everytownland.com/louth/charlestown.md - Cookstown: https://everytownland.com/louth/cookstown.md - Mullamore: https://everytownland.com/louth/mullamore.md - Rathory: https://everytownland.com/louth/rathory.md - Tattyboys: https://everytownland.com/louth/tattyboys.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/louth/knocklore - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/louth/knocklore