Knockbrack East

65 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockbrack East, from 319 m² to 121,462 m² (12.15 ha, 30.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 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 Knockbrack East 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.

• 18 Aug 2025Conditional

  construction of a granny flat to the front and gable of existing dwelling and Retention permission to retain two number detached onsite structures, and aviary building and a garden storage shed, to the rear of existing dwelling and associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560814

• 28 Aug 2020Conditional

  demolition of utility room to rear of existing dwelling and construction of an extension to rear of dwelling, revise roof to existing annex to rear of dwelling, upgrade existing waste water treatment system and associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 20839

• 7 Sept 2018Conditional

  the construction of a two-storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 18883

• 31 Oct 2017Conditional

  the construction of a two-storey extension to dwelling house, installation of a septic tank and percolation area, and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 171003

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 Knockbrack East.

Recorded monuments

• LI006-021 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On gently sloping pasture 90m S of townland boundary with Drominboy Upper and 490m W of standing stone (LI006-084----) on the summit of Knocksentry Hill. The site is described from cartographic and aerial photographic evidence only. Depicted as a large circular-shaped enclosure on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map. Shown as a large circular-shaped area (approx. int. diam. 65m) enclosed by a bank from NE-N-W-SW, reduced to a scarp from S-SE and levelled elsewhere with external fosse from NE-E. The present field entrance at SE may be the original entrance. OSi aerial photography suggests the faintest trace of a central enclosure (approx. diam. 25m) within the monument. Outline of tree-ringed monument clearly visible on Google Earth orthophotos taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 12 July 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knockbrack East, 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_1089 (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 Knockbrack East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Knockbrack East · An Cnoc Breac Thoir

Area

850,602 m² (85.06 ha, 210.19 acres)

Civil parish

Killeenagarriff, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Ballyvarra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

4,513 people lived in 1,473 households in the Ballyvarra electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drominboy, Drominboy Upper, Knockbrack West, Knocksentry, Laghtane East, Lisnagry, Thornfield

Placenames

Knockbrack East 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.