Knockbrien
Knockbrien is a townland in the civil parish of Cahernarry, barony of Clanwilliam, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Cnoc Bhriain.
Parcel 1672076
- Area
- 2,442 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Knockbrien
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.
- LI014-021 Boundary stone
Description
Situated immediately E of a garden wall of recent construction, W of a road, opposite a post office and petrol station. A sub-rectangular limestone slab (H 0.51m; Wth. 0.58m; Th. 0.13m), smooth on its E face and otherwise rough-cut. It bears a faded inscription recording that this stone marked the boundary of the Liberties of the City of Limerick, and the date 1786. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 February 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 10 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 low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1024 (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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 31.3 ha
- 77 acres
- Land parcels
- 28
- registered freehold, median 2,663 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockbrien, from 224 m² to 39,364 m² (3.94 ha, 9.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Knockbrien 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
25 Sept 2026N/a
the construction of a dwelling house, install an on-site effluent treatment system, modify/co-share an existing site entrance including all associated site development works
Outline permission · Limerick County Council, 2661122
10 Oct 2025Conditional
demolition of existing outbuildings and the construction of a two-storey extension to the existing single-storey dwelling house, revised vehicular entrance, installation of wastewater treatment unit, polishing filter and all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2561029
25 Oct 2019Conditional
an ESB single MV substation, switch room, concrete base pad for the transformer at the existing bottling plant
Permission · Limerick County Council, 191062
3 Sept 2018Refused
extended operating hours for Line 1 from between 0800 hours and 2400 hours, Monday to Friday to twenty-four hours, seven days a week (including Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays), and extended operating hours for Line 2 from between 0800 hours to 1900 hours to twenty-four hours, seven days a week (including Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays) and all associated works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 18872
27 Jul 2018Conditional
a warehouse extension (rear/southwest) and for alterations to a section of the front façade (northeast), signage and all associated works to the existing bottling plant
Permission · Limerick County Council, 18761
16 Mar 2018N/a
a warehouse extension (rear/southwest) and for alterations to a section of the front façade (northeast), signage and all associated works to the existing bottling plant
Permission · Limerick County Council, 18254
27 Apr 2017Conditional
an extension to the bottling plant within the forecourt of the existing facility (north easterly), retention of two wells, a separate pump house and associated ancillaries, and retention of the compressor room/generator house building, (south easterly) and all associated works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 17372
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knockbrien.
Recorded monuments
- LI014-021 Boundary stone
Description
Situated immediately E of a garden wall of recent construction, W of a road, opposite a post office and petrol station. A sub-rectangular limestone slab (H 0.51m; Wth. 0.58m; Th. 0.13m), smooth on its E face and otherwise rough-cut. It bears a faded inscription recording that this stone marked the boundary of the Liberties of the City of Limerick, and the date 1786. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 February 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockbrien.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Knockbrien, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knockbrien.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Knockbrien with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Knockbrien · Cnoc Bhriain
- Area
- 312,514 m² (31.25 ha, 77.22 acres)
- Civil parish
- Cahernarry, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanwilliam
- Electoral division
- Ballysimon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 16,540 people lived in 5,566 households in the Ballysimon electoral division. 59% of households owned their home. 52% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyneety, Ballyogartha, Edwardstown, Glen, Scart
- Placenames
- Knockbrien 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.