Knockarley

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockarley, from 174 m² to 386,694 m² (38.67 ha, 95.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Knockarley 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.

• 26 Sept 2024Conditional

  Construction of a dwelling house, detached domestic garage, installation of septic tank with percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2460372

• 4 Jul 2019Conditional

  A NEW DWELLING HOUSE ATTACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, NEW SITE ENTRANCE, SEPTIC TANK & PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 19323

• 27 Jun 2018Refused

  A NEW DWELLING HOUSE ATTACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, NEW SITE ENTRANCE, SEPTIC TANK & PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18275

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 Knockarley.

Recorded monuments

• OF039-020 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Marked on first two editions of the OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF039-021001 House - 16th/17th century
  Description

  Situated on the W facing slope of high ground in upland area. Three storey high gabled ended house of five bays with central flat headed doorway. At first floor level it has five rectangular windows while at second floor level there are five small squat shaped windows located under the eaves of a high pitched roof. The W face of the house measures 16.6m N-S. Probably late 17th/early 18th-century house. Cromwellian house located near Leap Castle in the Aghancon area (Sheehy 1964-5, 12-13; Loeber 1988 vol. 1, 4). Described by Billy English as 'The only extant example of a real Cromwellian house in Offaly is at Aghancon near Leap Castle (OF039-047----). No major changes from the original are evident in the present structure. It was evidently re-roofed at some stage, the rafters being of standard size sawn timber, but the original trusses are still to be seen in the roof which fortunately is uncovered. These are rough hand-hewn timbers secured with wooden pegs' (Loeber 1988 vol. 1, 4). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF039-022 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Depicted as an irregular shaped enclosure on the 1912 edition of the OS 6-inch map. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF039-038 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a low hillock in upland area. Circular area (diam 33m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved earth and stone bank reduced at N to a scarp (ext. H 1m) with enclosing fosse (Wth 2m; ext. D 0.5m) and a barely discernible external bank best preserved at S. Causewayed entrance gap (Wth 2.4m) at E. Field fence intersects site at W destroying the outer defences of the site. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF039-066 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Fulacht fiadh located on wet marshy ground close to the edge of a small raised bog in upland region. Site consists of a semi-circular shaped mound (diam. 7m ; H 0.6m) of burnt material with opening facing W (SMR file 1998). Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload / revision : 16 August 2010

Architectural heritage

• Knockarley House, farm house, 1650–1750 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay three-storey farmhouse, built c.1680, with gabled return to rear, lean-to bay to north and rear and outbuildings to south of house. Set within its own grounds. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and stone chimneystacks. Roof extends over addition to rear elevation. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with timber sash windows and sandstone sills. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door and overlight. Two-storey outbuilding extends from south of house with carriage arch opening to access rear yard and flat arch openings to doors. Slit windows to upper level and pigeon holes to wall beside carriage arch opening. Three-bay open-fronted outbuilding to north of rear yard with roughcast rendered stone piers and a corrugated-iron pitched roof. Additional single- and two-storey derelict outbuildings to rear yard. Cast-iron water pump to rear yard.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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 Knockarley with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Knockarley · Cnoc Airle

Area

2,600,106 m² (260.01 ha, 642.5 acres)

Civil parish

Roscomroe, and its townlands

Barony

Ballybritt

Electoral division

Aghancon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Aghancon electoral division: 371 people in 144 households; 89% of households own their home; 17% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghancon, Cooldorragh, Grange, Longford, Longford Big, Marymount, Newtown, Roscomroe

Placenames

Knockarley 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.