Knockacaurhin

43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockacaurhin, from 7 m² to 121,453 m² (12.15 ha, 30.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Knockacaurhin 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.

• 27 Aug 2026N/a

  to construct a dwelling house and garage, with effeuent treatment system, new entrance from public road, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 26237

• 4 Feb 2022Conditional

  for the following works, (A) Renovate and change the layout of the existing dwelling, (B) Construct porch to the front and extension to the rear of the dwelling, and (C) Install new effluent treatment system, all with associated site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 2293

• 27 Aug 2021Conditional

  to construct private dwelling house with attached garage, installation of new wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 21909

• 14 Apr 2021Conditional

  to construct a two storey dwelling and detached garage, a treatment plant with percolation area and all associated site services and landscaping

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 21337

• 6 Aug 2020Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, garage / garden shed, a wastewater treatment system, road entrance and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 20539

• 16 Aug 2018Conditional

  for the following works: (A) Construct a replacement dwelling house for the existing on-site dwelling, (B) Change use of the existing on-site dwelling to store, (C) Demolish existing derelict shed, (D) Replace existing septic tank with new effluent treatment system, all with associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 18661

• 25 May 2017Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house and garage with effluent treatment system, accessed by means of an existing shared entrance and driveway from public road, and all associiated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 17405

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 Knockacaurhin.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockacaurhin.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knockacaurhin, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Knockacaurhin

Area

876,670 m² (87.67 ha, 216.63 acres)

Civil parish

Kilnamona, and its townlands

Barony

Inchiquin

Electoral division

Kilnamona, the unit of the census

Census 2022

959 people lived in 318 households in the Kilnamona electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyasheea, Ballyduff More, Knockatemple, Leckaun

Placenames

Knockacaurhin 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.