Knockaclara

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockaclara, from 299 m² to 170,362 m² (17.04 ha, 42.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Knockaclara 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.

• 11 Mar 2022Conditional

  consisting of the construction of a two-storey dwelling with single storey annex to the rear, detached two-car garage, vehicular access junction to adjacent local road, bore-well soak-away, proprietary waste-water treatment system with all ancillary site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 22223

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 Knockaclara.

Recorded monuments

• CL026-028 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated in a slight hollow on an undulating landscape with rock outcrop. Hachured as a subrectangular enclosure (dims. c. 50m N-S; c. 50m E-W) with a wide perimeter (Wth c. 10m) on the 1842 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as a rectangular field on the 1920 ed. A rectangular area (dims. 48m E-W; 40m N-S) defined by drystone walls. This field may be mis-represented on the 1842 ed. of the map. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 3 May 2017

• CL026-169 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Knockaclara.

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 Knockaclara with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Knockaclara · Cnoc an Chláraigh

Area

549,858 m² (54.99 ha, 135.87 acres)

Civil parish

Templemaley, and its townlands

Barony

Bunratty Upper

Electoral division

Kilraghtis, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilraghtis electoral division: 576 people in 185 households; 92% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycarroll, Cloontymurphy, Curraderra, Killian

Placenames

Knockaclara 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.