Knockroe (Wilson)

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockroe (Wilson), from 179 m² to 287,066 m² (28.71 ha, 70.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Knockroe (Wilson) 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.

• 7 Sept 2017Conditional

  modifications to planning reference 16/401 to include provision of a new sunroom extension to dwelling under construction and stone finish to front porch

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17833

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 Knockroe (Wilson).

Recorded monuments

• LI023-025 Enclosure
  Description

  In damp pasture, on a gentle SE-facing slope. Sub-circular area (25m N-S; 23m E-W) defined by a scarped edge (Wth 3.75m; H 0.85m) with a substantial external fosse (basal Wth 11m; overall Wth 19.55m; D 0.8m) and a counter-scarp bank (Wth 9.6m; int. H 1.3m; ext. H 0.5m) best defined is well defined N-E; possible entrance (basal Wth 11m) at NNW and cattle breach (Wth 6m) at ENE. Interior generally level, with slight down-slope at W. Sinuous channel brings water into fosse (from nearby stream) through gap (max. Wth 10m) in outer bank at ESE. Outflow into linear channel (L 55m; long-axis ENE-WSW) from fosse at SW. Inflow channel into fosse is currently being in-filled. Other water channels evident within vicinity. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 1 November 2013

• LI023-142001 Enclosure
  Description

  This is the record for a monument identified by The Discovery Programme, from medium-altitude aerial photographs taken in 1986 [see Doody, M. (2008) The Ballyhoura Hills Project, Discovery Programme Monograph No 7, Wordwell, pp 65-100]. The reference for this monument is LI023: Bruff 20401: AP 4/3711.

• LI023-142002 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  This is the record for a monument identified by The Discovery Programme, from medium-altitude aerial photographs taken in 1986 [see Doody, M. (2008) The Ballyhoura Hills Project, Discovery Programme Monograph No 7, Wordwell, pp 65-100]. The reference for this monument is LI023: Bruff 20402: AP 4/3711.

• LI023-150001 Enclosure
  Description

  Identified from an aerial photograph (Bruff Survey: Map 23, Bruff 209: AP 4/3711) and described by Doody (2008, 133) as an 'oval enclosure, external length 70m N-S; internal length 40m N-S, 45m wide'; the morphology of this enclosure indicates that it may be Bronze Age in date (ibid.). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 7 November 2013

• LI023-150002 Enclosure
  Description

  This is the record for a monument identified by The Discovery Programme, from medium-altitude aerial photographs taken in 1986 [see Doody, M. (2008) The Ballyhoura Hills Project, Discovery Programme Monograph No 7, Wordwell, pp 65-100]. The reference for this monument is LI023: Bruff 208: AP 4/3711.

• LI023-150003 Enclosure
  Description

  This is the record for a monument identified by The Discovery Programme, from medium-altitude aerial photographs taken in 1986 [see Doody, M. (2008) The Ballyhoura Hills Project, Discovery Programme Monograph No 7, Wordwell, pp 65-100]. The reference for this monument is LI023: Bruff 207: AP 4/3711.

• LI023-150004 Enclosure
  Description

  This is the record for a monument identified by The Discovery Programme, from medium-altitude aerial photographs taken in 1986 [see Doody, M. (2008) The Ballyhoura Hills Project, Discovery Programme Monograph No 7, Wordwell, pp 65-100]. The reference for this monument is LI023: Bruff 205: AP 4/3711.

• LI023-150005 Enclosure
  Description

  This is the record for a monument identified by The Discovery Programme, from medium-altitude aerial photographs taken in 1986 [see Doody, M. (2008) The Ballyhoura Hills Project, Discovery Programme Monograph No 7, Wordwell, pp 65-100]. The reference for this monument is LI023: Bruff 206: AP 4/3711.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockroe (Wilson).

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 Knockroe (Wilson), about 1 in 5 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 Knockroe (Wilson).

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 Knockroe (Wilson) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Knockroe (Wilson) · An Cnoc Rua (Wilson)

Area

1,080,518 m² (108.05 ha, 267 acres)

Civil parish

Inch St. Lawrence, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Caherconlish West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,318 people lived in 774 households in the Caherconlish West electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhoodane, Caherconlish, Doonvullen Lower, Gragane, Knockroe, Knockroe (Mason), Newtown, Pust South

Placenames

Knockroe (Wilson) 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.