Knockroe

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockroe, from 1,687 m² to 116,900 m² (11.69 ha, 28.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 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.

• 24 Mar 2022Conditional

  the construction of a single storey extension to the side of an existing dwelling house along with all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 22322

• 11 Aug 2017Conditional

  a domestic garage to the rear of existing dwelling house together with all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17763

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.

Recorded monuments

• LI023-023 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on a gentle NE-facing slope with excellent views W-ESE. Monument, depicted on 1928 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) has been leveled an no trace of it was evident when site inspected. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 20 November 2014

• LI023-024 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on an E-facing slope with excellent views NW-S. Monument has been levelled but is still evident as oval area (c. 21m N-S; 18m E-W) defined by remains of fosse (Wth 5.95m; Dth 0.6m) S-NW and levelled scarp NW-S largely indistinct from hill-slope. Monument is cut into upslope to W and raised on E-side to compensate for hill-slope. Two mature trees grow on scarp at E. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 1 November 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Knockroe · An Cnoc Rua

Area

168,318 m² (16.83 ha, 41.59 acres)

Civil parish

Caherconlish, 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

Caherconlish, Gragane, Knockroe (Wilson)

Placenames

Knockroe 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.