Knockreagh Lower

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockreagh Lower, from 115 m² to 104,504 m² (10.45 ha, 25.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Knockreagh Lower 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.

• 7 Feb 2022Conditional

  permission for a development that consists of permission for a change of house type and site layout previously granted under planning reference 16/539

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2248

• 12 Oct 2021Conditional

  permission to consist of a two storey dwelling house and waste water treatment unit and percolation area & new entrance onto public road and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21570

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 Knockreagh Lower.

Recorded monuments

• MO025-030 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on the summit of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. This was described in 1968 as an oval grass-covered area (dims 35m NNW-SSE; 26.5m ENE-WSW) defined by an earthen bank (at NE: Wth of base 4.5m; Wth of top 1.5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.6m) with an outer stone facing that was planted with trees, and an outer drain S-NNW. There was no visible fosse and the original entrance (Wth of base 2.5m) was at SE. The bank had been removed NNW-SE and it had been incorporated into a field bank and hedge elsewhere by 2000 (OSAP). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 27 February 2018

• MO025-038 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a SE-facing slope. A circular enclosure is depicted here at Knockreagh Lower on McCrea’s map of County Monaghan (1793), and on the 1834 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map. This is a raised circular and grass-covered area (diam. 34m NW-SE; 31.5m NE-SW) defined by the slight remains of an earthen bank that is largely reduced to an overgrown scarp (at SSW: H 2.5m), with a field boundary on top of it N-E. The monument is cut slightly by a NE-SW field bank and hedge at SE (L c. 20m). There is no visible fosse and the original entrance is not identified The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 27 February 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knockreagh Lower.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Knockreagh Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Knockreagh Lower · An Cnoc Riabhach Íochtarach

Area

581,365 m² (58.14 ha, 143.66 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmoyne, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Broomfield, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Broomfield electoral division: 831 people in 264 households; 87% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardkirk, Drumganus Upper, Drumlandrick, Keeneraboy, Knockreagh Upper, Tullanacrunat North, Tullanacrunat South

Placenames

Knockreagh Lower 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.