Knockaskeheen

73 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockaskeheen, from 31 m² to 156,202 m² (15.62 ha, 38.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Knockaskeheen 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 Aug 2022Conditional

  (Ref. No. P21/215 of outline permission) the development will consist of a dwelling house and garage with connection to the public sewerage scheme together with ancillary site works

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Clare County Council, 22763

• 16 Mar 2021Conditional

  to RETAIN the installation of an upgraded waste water treatment unit, the renovations and extension to the original cottage and all associated site and ancillary works

  Retention · Clare County Council, 21230

• 12 Mar 2021Conditional

  the development will consist of a dwelling house and garage with connection to the public sewerage scheme together with ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 21213

• 12 Mar 2021Conditional

  the development will consist of a dwelling house and garage with connection to the public sewerage scheme together with ancillary site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 21215

• 30 Oct 2020Conditional

  the development consists of the retention of the dwelling house position and retention of site boundaries together with ancillary works

  Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 20794

• 22 Jan 2020Conditional

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

  Permission · Clare County Council, 2019

• 13 Apr 2017Conditional

  to build a dwelling house, garage and install a waste treatment plan, and all associated and ancillary site works including a new entrance onto the public road

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 17270

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 Knockaskeheen.

Recorded monuments

• CL008-040 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a knoll in hilly pastureland with good views to the S. Hachured and labelled 'Knockaskeheen Caher' on the 1842 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Recorded by Westropp (1905, 352) as being ‘so completely demolished since 1839 that no trace can be found on the green knoll where it once stood’. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 27 September 2022

• CL008-133 Burnt mound
  Description

  In an area of marshy pasture. Identified during archaeological assessment and monitoring at the site of a proposed sewage treatment plant. Subsequently subjected to archaeological testing (Rooney 2000, Licence No. 99E0449) followed by full excavation (Fitzpatrick 2002, 'Site 1', Licence No. 00E0051). Initially identified on the surface as a roughly U-shaped low rise (c. 16m NW-SE; 7m NE-SW; H 0.5-0.75m), topsoil removal exposed an irregular spread (L 5.5m; Wth 3m) of small decayed yellow/orange heat-shattered stones, surrounded and partly overlaid by a layer of grey marl. No artefacts of archaeological significance were uncovered at this site. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 26 April 2023 References: Fitzpatrick, M. 2002 Knocknaranhy, Clare. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2000: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 32, No. 093. Bray. Wordwell. Rooney, F. 2000 Knocknaranhy, Clare. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1999: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 17, No. 056. Bray. Wordwell.

• CL008-135 Burnt mound
  Description

  In an area of marshy pasture, on the E bank of a NW-SE flowing stream. Identified during archaeological assessment and monitoring at the site of a proposed sewage treatment plant, and subsequently excavated (Fitzpatrick 2002, 'Site 2'). This well-preserved oval-shaped mound (9.7m NE-SW; 8.8m NW-SE) was composed of decayed and heat-shattered stones. A line of three post-holes (oriented NE-SW) found within the mound were interpreted as marking fence-posts of a recent field boundary. References Fitzpatrick, M. 2002 Knocknaranhy, Clare. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2000: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 32, No. 093. Bray. Wordwell. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Con Herriott Date of upload: 26 April 2023

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knockaskeheen, 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 Knockaskeheen.

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

Name

Knockaskeheen

Area

1,855,770 m² (185.58 ha, 458.57 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmoon, and its townlands

Barony

Burren

Electoral division

Cloghaun, the unit of the census

Census 2022

201 people lived in 73 households in the Cloghaun electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 21% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 18% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardeamush, Aughiska Beg, Ballydonohoe, Caherbarnagh, Knockaguilla, Knocknaranhy, Poulnagun, Rooska

Placenames

Knockaskeheen 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.