Knockgrean

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockgrean, from 2,149 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres) to 343,840 m² (34.38 ha, 84.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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 Knockgrean 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.

• 2 Apr 2020N/a

  upgrading of an existing entrance from public roadway onto forestry lands, to comprise the provision of splayed access, clear visibility sightlines, associated setting back of adjacent roadside boundaries, provision of associated surface water drainage, fences, finished hardcored structure to access area, and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 20275

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 Knockgrean.

Recorded monuments

• LI024-042 Burial mound
  Description

  On SE-facing slope of Knockgrean, in coniferous forestry, 60m SE of a townland boundary with Glen. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument described by O’Dwyer (1959, 78) as following; 'As this monument now stands, it is a low mound about 70' [21m] in diameter and about 3' [0.9m] high. It may be a severely destroyed platform earthwork or some form of barrow or burial mound. No stones show through the turf and there is no evidence of a surrounding ditch'. Monument visited by the ASI in 2008 but were unable to gain access to monument due to impenetrable forest plantation. Monument is visible as an oval-shaped area (35m NW-SE; 30m NE-SW) situated within a forestry exclusion zone as seen on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-201, and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached profile drawn by O’Dwyer in 1959 and Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 29 September 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knockgrean, 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 high, 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 Knockgrean.

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

Name

Knockgrean · Cnoc Gréine

Area

352,394 m² (35.24 ha, 87.08 acres)

Civil parish

Dromkeen, and its townlands

Barony

Coonagh

Electoral division

Grean, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,548 people lived in 533 households in the Grean electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Glen, Knocknacrohy, Pallashill, Sunglen

Placenames

Knockgrean 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.