Knockrawer

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockrawer, from 1,991 m² to 55,958 m² (5.6 ha, 13.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Knockrawer 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 Jul 2022N/a

  development consisting of the following: to construct a storey and a half extension to the side and rear of the existing dwelling. Construct and install a new PET system with associated percolation area and minor modification to existing first floor window of western gable. Replacement of existing roof and all associated site development works deemed necessary

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 22239

• 12 Jul 2021Refused

  Development consisting of construction of a two storey dwelling house, on-site PET system with tertiary treatment modules and carrying out of all associated site development works deemed necessary

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 21271

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: Unshin River SAC 001898
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Unshin River 001898

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockrawer.

Architectural heritage

• Water pump, 1910–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Free-standing stone water supply memorial, erected 1915. Rock-faced regularly-coursed ashlar limestone walling, slightly-projecting centre panel containing round-headed recess with cut stone voussoirs springing from projecting imposts, rock-faced copings. Faucet missing. Projecting three-sided stone slab with basin formed in upper surface. Carved inscription in recessed panel over arch reads in raised lettering 'In most loving memory of Beatrice Kathleen his wife this water was brought to the neighbours whom she loved by Frederick Williams Wynn December 1915'. Situated on hilltop adjacent to estate workers' dwellings to east of Markree demesne.

• Worker's house, 1870–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Group of semi-detached two-bay one-and-a-half-storey rendered former estate workers houses, built c. 1890, now derelict. Pitched slate roofs, clay ridge tiles, unpainted smooth-rendered corbelled chimneystack, half-round cast-iron gutters. Unpainted smooth-rendered walling. Square-headed window openings, painted four-over-four timber sash coupled windows. Square-headed door openings on gables, painted vertically-sheeted timber doors. Equally spaced along roadside.

• Markree Castle, foot bridge, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wrought-iron suspension footbridge over river, erected c. 1840. Wrought- and cast-iron suspension gantries on rubble masonry abutments to east and west banks, steel suspension cables, wrought-iron deck cradles, timber plank decking. Spans Arrow Unshin River to south of Markree Castle.

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 Knockrawer, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1136 (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 Knockrawer with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Knockrawer · An Cnoc Ramhar

Area

966,743 m² (96.67 ha, 238.89 acres)

Civil parish

Drumcolumb, and its townlands

Barony

Tirerrill

Electoral division

Collooney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

3,188 people lived in 1,209 households in the Collooney electoral division. 58% of households owned their home. 65% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloghfin, Clooneenroe, Cooperhill or Gobbadagh, Knockanarrow, Knockroe, Markree Demesne, Tully More

Placenames

Knockrawer 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.