Knocktoosh

80 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocktoosh, from 213 m² to 552,630 m² (55.26 ha, 136.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Knocktoosh 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.

• 20 Jan 2026Conditional

  construction of a new slatted livestock unit. Proposed slatted livestock unit to incorporate cubicles, easy feed & underground slatted tank with external agitation & ancillary external concrete. The above development to be carried out with all associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660035

• 15 Jan 2026Conditional

  (1) demolition of the rear extension of the existing dwelling house, (2) to build a new extension to the rear and side of the existing dwelling house, (3) add two new windows to the end elevations of the existing dwelling and permission to build a new dog kennel and storage shed for pets, alterations to the existing entrance, a new wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 267

• 11 Jun 2025Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling house, detached garage, entrance off farmhouse passage, domestic wastewater treatment system & all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560553

• 20 Jul 2021Conditional

  construction of a calf house and all associated site work

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 211033

• 29 Jan 2020Conditional

  a dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, domestic wastewater treatment system & all ancillary site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 2060

• 31 May 2019Conditional

  a slatted cubicle house, Retention Permission is also sought for a calf house and roof over feed passage

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 19535

• 31 Jul 2017Conditional

  the construction of a cattle underpass and effluent holding tank and associated works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 17728

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
• Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161

Recorded monuments

• LI053-029 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified in 2016 as possible burial site in blanket bog by a Teagasc farm inspector. Monument visible as a circular-shaped area (diam. c. 10m) defined by a fosse, truncated at SW by a post-1700 field boundary running NW-SE visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached location map from An Teagasc and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 10 November 2021

• LI054A001 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture, at the foot of a SE-facing slope. An oval mound (H 0.4m; 18m N-S; 15m E-W) of burnt material. The edge of the mound is overgrown by furze bushes NE->NW. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Knocktoosh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Knocktoosh · Cnoc Túis

Area

4,442,816 m² (444.28 ha, 1,097.84 acres)

Civil parish

Killagholehane, and its townlands

Barony

Glenquin

Electoral division

Boola, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Boola electoral division: 142 people in 49 households; 96% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Banemore, Knockawillin (Co. Cork), Knockearagh (Co. Cork), Knockglass, Knockskavane (Co. Cork), Mountplummer, Rowls (Aldworth) (Co. Cork), Rowls (Langford) North (Co. Cork), Rowls (Noonan) (Co. Cork)

Placenames

Knocktoosh 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.