Knockanoura

91 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockanoura, from 29 m² to 206,805 m² (20.68 ha, 51.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 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 Knockanoura 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.

• 31 Jan 2026N/a

  to erect a dwelling house and garage, install an effluent treatment and soil polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660041

• 23 Jun 2023Refused

  of a) storage of construction material on lands previously used for extraction of quarry stone and b) RETENTION of commercial gate which replaced agricultural gates on lands

  Retention · Clare County Council, 23361

• 8 Jun 2023Conditional

  of shed and fuel store as constructed together with all associated site development works and services

  Retention · Clare County Council, 2360195

• 24 Sept 2019Conditional

  to construct a two-storey dwelling house, entrance, boundary walls, wastewater teatment system, polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 19739

• 15 Mar 2019Conditional

  for development consisting of a ten year permission for a solar farm on a site of approximately 31.18 hectares consisting of the following; up to 92,550 sq. m of solar photo-voltaic panels on ground mounted steel frames; electrical substation with electrical control building and associated compound with palisade fence; inverter/transformer stations; underground power and communication cables and ducts; boundary security fencing; upgraded internal access tracks; new internal access tracks and associated drainage infrastructure; upgrade and use of the existing access to the local public road between Feenagh and Rathclooney, CCTV cameras and all associated site services and works.

  Permission · Clare County Council, 19194

• 28 Feb 2019Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, entrance and on-site wastewater treatment system, along with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 19141

• 18 Oct 2018Conditional

  for the construction of a forest access road and entrance with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 18820

• 22 Mar 2018Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house and garage, with effluent treatment system, accessed by means of an existing farm road, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 18218

• 8 Mar 2018Conditional

  to erect an extension to the side and rear of house and all associated site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 18167

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 Knockanoura.

Recorded monuments

• CL026-097 Earthwork
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• CL026-098 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• CL034-028 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• CL034-029 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• CL034-030 Stone row
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

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

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

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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 Knockanoura with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Knockanoura · Cnoc an Amhra

Area

2,358,532 m² (235.85 ha, 582.81 acres)

Civil parish

Clooney (Tulla Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Bunratty Upper

Electoral division

Clooney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

539 people lived in 179 households in the Clooney electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyvergin, Clooney, Cranagher, Kilgobban, Kilvoydan North, Kilvoydan South, Lassana, Parkalough, Rathclooney

Placenames

Knockanoura 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.