Knockroe

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockroe, from 92 m² to 87,229 m² (8.72 ha, 21.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• M4White Lands (Built up area)
  Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Town Core (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 16 Nov 2022Conditional

  to erect part 2 storey/ part single storey extension to side of existing dressing rooms building, connection to existing services, relocation of existing storage building within the site, demolish existing separate storage building, associated alterations to floor plans and elevations of existing dressing rooms building, alterations to car-parking layout and all associated and ancillary works at Knockroe, Redhills, Co. Cavan. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted.

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 22464

• 25 Jan 2017Conditional

  to alter existing pitch layout, boundary treatments and all associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 1719

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 Knockroe.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockroe.

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road bridge over former railway line, built c.1860. Abutments of squared and snecked rock-faced sandstone having smooth plat band with bevelled upper face at springing point returning on bridge faces as impost block. Soffit of squared stonework. Elliptical arch with rock-faced voussoir stones. Spandrel walls, parapets, and flanking buttresses flush at road face, all of squared snecked rock-faced stonework. Smooth string course below parapet. Coping of square cut stone with shallow pyramidal capstones to piers, copings tooled with horizontal corduroy pattern. Random rubble stone wing walls with Scotch coping. Ramped and curved approach roads to humped deck.

• House, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay two-storey house, built c.1890. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks shared with neighbour, exposed timber rafters at eaves, cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered walls to ground floor with plinth expressed at door opening, string course separating ground and first floors, roughcast rendered walls to first floor with smooth rendered quoins to north boundary. Paired timber casement windows to first floor, fixed top lights with cruciform subdivision over single-pane side-hung casements and concrete sills. Single quadripartite window aligned beneath at ground floor with matching fenestration pattern. Replacement timber panelled door with fixed overlight. Stone step and threshold.

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Knockroe.

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 Knockroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Knockroe · An Cnoc Rua

Area

251,092 m² (25.11 ha, 62.05 acres)

Civil parish

Annagh, and its townlands

Barony

Tullygarvey

Electoral division

Redhill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Redhill electoral division: 468 people in 166 households; 85% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carramoreen, Drumakeenan, Killybandrick, Ramulligan, Redhill Demesne

Placenames

Knockroe 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.