Knockacraig

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockacraig, from 118 m² to 346,605 m² (34.66 ha, 85.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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 Knockacraig 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.

• 11 Sept 2026N/a

  construction of a loose straw bedded shed, feed passage and concrete apron

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 26206

• 20 Sept 2022Conditional

  the demolition of an existing dwelling house and doctors' surgery and the construction of a replacement dwelling house, which will consist of a 2-storey dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 221014

• 16 Jan 2018Conditional

  the extension of existing poultry house and the construction of poultry house, soiled water tank and associated site works. An Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) has been submitted as part of the planning application

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 1824

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 Knockacraig.

Recorded monuments

• LI054-036 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on N-facing slope. Monument, depicted as embanked circular (diam. c. 30m) enclosure on 1924 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Field boundary curves to respect enclosure NW->E. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI054-037 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m) on 1924 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. A circular band of rougher ground (diam. c. 50m) in pasture field indicates location of enclosure. Surrounding field boundaries have also been levelled. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI054-038 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) on 1924 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. However, site is still discernible as faint dip (D c. 0.15m; Wth 1.3m) defining circular area (diam. 34.5m). A field boundary runs outside dip NE-SE. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI054-039 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on N-facing slope. Monument, depicted as roughly circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1924 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. However, curving field boundary respects line of enclosure NNE->SE, and very slight scarped edge can be traced SSW->NNW. Interior, under pasture, slopes down gently to N. Field boundary, shown abutting enclosure at SW on 1901 OS 6-inch map, has been removed. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI054-049 Earthwork
  Description

  In area of rough scrub on poorly drained land. Outline of circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 27m) defined by a scarp and external ditch visible on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-13 and earlier OSi orthoimages. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 30 May 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knockacraig, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_599 (ZIP).

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

Name

Knockacraig · Cnoc an Chraobhaigh

Area

1,835,308 m² (183.53 ha, 453.51 acres)

Civil parish

Dromcolliher, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Upper

Electoral division

Dromcolliher, the unit of the census

Census 2022

928 people lived in 374 households in the Dromcolliher electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinlongig, Barnagarrane, Carroward West, Farrihy, Woodfield

Placenames

Knockacraig 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.