Knockavurra Glebe

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockavurra Glebe, from 3,069 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres) to 101,557 m² (10.16 ha, 25.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Knockavurra Glebe 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.

• 23 Jan 2020Conditional

  ERECT A NEW BUNGALOW COMPLETE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT UNIT AND SAND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DEVELOPMENT COMPLETE WITH NEW ENTRANCE ON TO EXISTING PUBLIC ROAD

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2044

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 Knockavurra Glebe.

Recorded monuments

• KE020-066 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diameter 30m N-S, 31m E-W Situated in the SE corner of a large pastoral field with fieldbanks lying immediately E and S, this site consists of a circular space enclosed by an earthen bank c 7m wide at the base and rising to a maximum 2.6m above the interior and 4.2m above the external ground level. The interior is at a slightly higher level than the surrounding land and access is gained by a 1.7m wide entrance to the SE which would appear to have been stone lined. There are at least three mounds constructed of stones in the interior, suggesting either souterrain (KE020-066001-) or house-site remains. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 687. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE020-066001 Souterrain
  Description

  Situated in the SE corner of a large pastoral field with fieldbanks lying immediately E and S, KE020-066---- consists of a circular space enclosed by an earthen bank. There are at least three mounds constructed of stones in the interior, suggesting either souterrain (KE020-066001-) or house-site remains. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 687. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE020-067 Earthwork
  Description

  In pasture, on relatively level terrain. A cropmark of a D-shaped enclosure abutting a linear feature at W is visible on an aerial photograph (CUCAP ALT 80, 1965). When visited in 2000, no visible surface trace was evident. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 28 January 2014

• KE020-068 Earthwork
  Description

  In pasture, on relatively level terrain. A cropmark of a roughly circular feature is visible on an aerial photograph (CUCAP ALT 80, 1965). When visited in 2000, no visible surface trace was evident. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 28 January 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knockavurra Glebe, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_72 (ZIP).

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 Knockavurra Glebe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Knockavurra Glebe

Area

471,501 m² (47.15 ha, 116.51 acres)

Civil parish

Ardfert, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmaurice

Electoral division

Clogherbrien, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,535 people lived in 561 households in the Clogherbrien electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloon Glebe, Commons West, Graigue Glebe, Liscahane, Listrim

Placenames

Knockavurra Glebe 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.