Knocknacrohy

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknacrohy, from 347 m² to 244,283 m² (24.43 ha, 60.36 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 Knocknacrohy 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.

• 28 Sept 2017Conditional

  a new two storey dwelling, garage, effluent treatment system, entrance and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17908

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 Knocknacrohy.

Recorded monuments

• LI024-159 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In undulating pasture 30m S of the townland boundary with Glen. Located in the centre of a cluster of eleven ring-barrows concentrated in an area extending 350m N-S by 80m E-W. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 59; AP 4/3681). Visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 28/06/2018 as a small circular shaped cropmark. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 21 July 2020

• LI024-161001 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In pasture 35m E of the townland boundary with Glen. Ring-barrow (LI024-242----) located 15m to E while a group of four ring-barrows are located 80m to S. Not depicted on the OS maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 58(01); AP 4/3681) as a circular cropmark. Visible as circular shaped hollow on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018 which shows a modern drainage ditch 7m to SE. See attached Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 58(01). Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 23 July 2020

• LI024-161002 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In pasture immediately N of a linear drainage ditch and E of a field boundary. Ring-barrows (LI024-244-/245-/161003-) are located to the immediate E. Not depicted on the OS maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 58(02); AP 4/3681) as a circular cropmark. Visible as one of a number of circular shaped cropmarks on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018. See attached Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 58(02). Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 23 July 2020

• LI024-161003 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In pasture immediately N of a linear drainage ditch and E of field boundary. Ring-barrows (LI024-244-/245-/161002-) are located to the immediate W and N. Not depicted on the OS maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 58(03); AP 4/3681) as a circular cropmark. Visible as a U-shaped cropmark on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018. See attached Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 58(03). Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 23 July 2020

• LI024-242 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  On sloping pasture rising to Knockseefin Hill 900m to NE, 14m SW of the townland boundary with Glen (Clanwilliam By.). The barrow is one of a pair of sites (LI024-242/161001-) located 15m apart. A group of four ring-barrows (LI024-161002/003-; LI024-244/245----) are located 80m to S. The site is not depicted on historic OSi maps, nor is it visible on OSi orthoimages taken 2005-12 or on the Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey of 1986 (Bruff AP 4/3681) as a ring-barrow. The site is not visible on the most recent Google Earth orthoimages taken 18/11/2018. See attached Bruff survey image showing the site labelled Bruff 242 and Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 17 September 2020

• LI024-244 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In pasture truncated by a drainage ditch 65m SW of the townland boundary with Glen (Clanwilliam By.). The barrow is one of a group of four barrows (LI024-161002/003-; LI024-244/-245----) in a cemetery 20m apart. The site is not depicted on historic OSi maps, it is faintly visible on OSi orthoimages taken 2005-12 and on the Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Identified during examination of Bruff aerial photographic survey of 1986 (Bruff AP 4/3681) as a ring-barrow. The site is faintly visible with its NE side truncated by a drainage ditch on the most recent Google Earth orthoimages taken 18/11/2018. See attached Bruff survey image showing the site labelled Bruff 244 and Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 18 September 2020

• LI024-245 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In pasture truncated by a drainage ditch / field boundary 90m SW of the townland boundary with Glen (Clanwilliam By.). The barrow is one of a group of four ring-barrows (LI024-161002/003-; LI024-244/245----) in a cemetery 20m apart. The site is not depicted on historic OSi maps, it is visible on OSi orthoimages taken 2005-12 and on the Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Identified during examination of Bruff aerial photographic survey of 1986 (Bruff AP 4/3681) as a ring-barrow. The site is visible with its SW side truncated by a field boundary and drainage ditch, visible on the most recent Google Earth orthoimages taken 18/11/2018. The Placenames Database of Ireland records that Knocknacrohy is derived from the Irish Cnoc na Croiche or Hill of the Gallows (www.logainm.ie). The placename may preserve a folk memory to burial on the hill relating to the proliferation of Bronze Age funerary monuments or ring-barrows on and around it. See attached Bruff survey image showing the site labelled Bruff 245 and Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 18 September 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knocknacrohy, 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 Knocknacrohy.

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

Name

Knocknacrohy · Cnoc na Croiche

Area

797,654 m² (79.77 ha, 197.1 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

Ballynagally, Ballytrasna, Glen, Knockgrean, Sunglen

Placenames

Knocknacrohy 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.