Knocknagranshy

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknagranshy, from 222 m² to 244,882 m² (24.49 ha, 60.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Knocknagranshy 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Knocknagranshy in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Knocknagranshy.

Recorded monuments

• LI022-115 Water mill - horizontal-wheeled
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture, 48m S of a stream, 112m E of townland boundary with Garrane. Toberlaghteen holy well (LI022-116----) lies 116m to NE. Originally identified in 1942, the site was reported to the National Museum of Ireland in 1954 and excavated in 1955 by A. T. Lucas. The report describes the site as, 'located in a boggy field which sloped gently westwards to a boggy rush-grown bottom. It consisted of a low, roughly pear-shaped mound with an irregularly hummocked surface, which measured about 15.3m east-west and 6.35m in maximum width north-south. Lying on the long axis of the mound at its broadest part was an oak chute, wider at one end than at the other. The narrow end, which lay to the west, rested on a large oak beam set on edge which ran north-south under it'. (Lucas 1969, 13). A cutting (L 8m; Wth 1m; D 1m) orientated N-S revealed two parallel banks of yellow clay (H 0.5m), 4m apart which defined the millpond. A third cutting (L 2m; Wth 1m; D 1.15m) revealed no evidence of a bank. Excavations also revealed that the wheelhouse and superstructure had been erected on a foundation layer of clay and stones laid down on the peat. Three fragments of wooden boards were uncovered in the area of the former wheelhouse. Two were the remains of a wooden floor which formerly extended across the wheelhouse while the third was a board that ran transversely across the west end of the wheel house. The chute (L 2.08m), tapered from 0.36m-0.7m in width, had been uncovered fourteen years previously. It was rectangular in section and had been hollowed out of a single piece of oak. The supporting beam for the chute (L 2.16m; Wth 0.46m; D 0.25m) was also located and recorded (ibid., 12-22). The timbers from Knocknagranshy have been dendrochronologically dated by Queens University to between the 8th and 9th centuries (Brady 2006, 48). The excavated mill site is not visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 2020 which shows drainage channels running N-S in the field. See attached plan of watermill taken from excavation report and Google Earth orthoimage taken 14/02/2020 Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 6 August 2020

• LI022-116 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Ó Danachair (1955, 214) recorded the following details about St. Lachtin's Well; 'Tober laghteen Holy Well on 1840 map. A small masonry cupola, with a slab "This was erected by James Keating in ye year of our Lord 1791 that lived in Grangehill Pray for him". Now dry, but the spring breaks out just beside the cupola in a pool about three yards in diameter. A great ash tree overhangs the well. Devotions formerly on 19th March. None now. The water cured eye ailments. Now provided water for domestic use and cattle. Rags were hung on tree as offerings. Legend: the well moved when profaned'. The following folklore was recorded from Ballymartin National School about St. Lachtin's Well;'Inscription over well:- This stone was erected by James Keating in year of Our Lord 1791 that lived in Grangehill. ST LACHTIN'S WELL is known as " Tobar Lachtín ". It is situated in Grangehill (Cnoc na Gráinse) about a half-mile from Tory Hill and to the south of it. Lachtín was one of three 6th or 7th century saints. His name occurs again near Newcastle in Cill Lachtín. PATTERN DAY was observed on FEAST OF THE SAINT 19TH MARCH up to about 40 years ago and "Rounds" were paid on that day by the people of the surrounding districts. The well was once profaned by a woman who took some articles of clothing there and washed them in it. Next day it was seen that the well had removed from one side of the ash tree (shown in sketch) to the other. It was in Cnoc Beag. It is now in the south-western corner of Terrig Alt?. It is within a quarter of a mile or less of Teampuilín na Webbana [LI022117001-], a vault-like construction containing human bones, and situated on the summit of Knock na Granshee' (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0525, Pages 086-7; accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4922104/4852456) See attached photos taken in 1954 by Caoimhín Ó Danachair, courtesy of and © National Folklore Collection, UCD. The Photographic Collection, F025.21.00440 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/24504; F025.21.00441 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/24505and F025.21.00439 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/17076. Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 3 October 2020

• LI022-117001 Church
  Description

  Situated on Grange Hill, ruins of medieval church standing in SW quadrant of disused graveyard (LI022-117002-). Westropp (1904-5, 383) recorded the following details on Knocknagranshy; ‘One of the granges named in the charter of 1185. Henry Hammond and Alex, de Rupe fought at "Nywegraunge, near the Abbey of Magio," in 1319. The latter gave two wounds, and received three from Henry, who fell dead on the spot. Thereupon Henry's "alumnus" struck Roche dead with a lance. It was found that all three were felons, and their lands forfeit to the Crown (Plea R., xii Ed. II, m. 54). Cnocknegranshye, 1584 (O'Brien's Inq.). Fabric - A ruined church and a well, called Toberlaughten [LI022-116----], remain'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 03 January 2019

• LI022-117002 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on Grange Hill, ruins of medieval church (LI022-117001-) standing in SW quadrant of disused graveyard that is depicted as a rectangular shaped enclosure (approx. dims. 27m N-S x 43m E-W) on the first ed. OS 6-inch map. Visible today as a scrub-covered enclosure on Digital Globe aerial photographs Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 03 January 2019

• LI022-118 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In elevated pasture on slight E-facing slope with excellent views in all directions except to S. Knocknagranshy Church (LI022-117001-) and graveyard (LI022-117002-) 160m to S. Surveyed by the ASI in 2000 when described as a raised circular shaped area (diam. 30m) defined by a bank mainy reduced to a scarped edge (H 0.6m), which has stone revetting visible from S to NW, and an external fosse (Wth 2.8m; D 0.4m). A field boundary runs along the outer edge of fosse from NE to SE while a remnant field boundary intersects the monument at S. The interior is level and densely overgrown as shown on Google Earth orthoimage taken 14/02/2020. See attached Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 31 July 2020

• LI022-119 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture immediately S of public road with good views in all directions. Surveyed by the ASI in 2000 and described as a raised circular shaped area (diam. 20m) defined by a scarped edge (H 1.4m) and an external fosse (Wth 3.4m; D 0.55m) with a modern entrance ramp (Wth 6m) at E. A horse-shoe shaped limekiln (9.4m N-S; 6.5m E-W) is visible built into the scarped edge at S. A field boundary intersects the monument at W. The interior is level and densely overgrown as visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached sketch plan surveyed and drawn by the ASI and Google earth orthoimage 28/06/2018 Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 4 August 2020

• LI022-120 Enclosure
  Description

  In level pasture, 135m W of townland boundary with Springlodge, an enclosure (LI022-123----) lies 222m to SE. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped area defined by a scarp. Partial remains of the monument depicted on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map where it is shown as a curving section of the enclosing bank from NW to NNE only. No surface remains visible. Faint trace of cropmark of levelled monument visible on the Google Earth orthoimage taken in 2020 with relic field boundary to W. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 5 August 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knocknagranshy, 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_934 (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 Knocknagranshy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Knocknagranshy · Cnoc na Gráinsí

Area

1,144,894 m² (114.49 ha, 282.91 acres)

Civil parish

Monasteranenagh, and its townlands

Barony

Pubblebrien

Electoral division

Garrane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

317 people lived in 108 households in the Garrane electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycahane Upper, Cahirduff, Garrane, Parkaree, Springlodge

Placenames

Knocknagranshy 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.