Knockaunnacurraha

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockaunnacurraha, from 924 m² to 135,428 m² (13.54 ha, 33.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Knockaunnacurraha 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.

• 29 Apr 2024Refused

  a change of use of an existing garage to a dwelling unit, construction of extensions to the side of the proposed dwelling comprising kitchen and sun room and a first floor extension with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 24178

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 Knockaunnacurraha.

Recorded monuments

• LI049-141 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, 105m W of townland boundary with Garrynalyna. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6 inch map as a raised circular-shaped area defined by a scarp, intersected at SW by a post-1700 field boundary running E-W. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised platform (dims. c. 23m NW-SE; 27m NE-SW;) defined by a scarp with fosse from NE-E-SE, intersected at SE by a post-1700 field boundary running E-W. Overgrown monument visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 1 November 2021

• LI049-148 Earthwork
  Description

  In pasture, 160m N of townland boundary with Ballyfauskeen. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a raised oval-shaped area defined by a scarp, intersected at SE and N by a post-1700 field boundary. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a sunken sub-circular shaped area (dims. c. 18m N-S; 22m E-W), incorporated into a post-1700 field boundary, intersected at S and NE by post-1700 field boundaries running NW-SE. Earthwork visible as a circular area enclosed by a tree-lined bank on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 1 November 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knockaunnacurraha, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knockaunnacurraha.

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 Knockaunnacurraha with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Knockaunnacurraha · Cnocán na gCurraithe

Area

959,328 m² (95.93 ha, 237.06 acres)

Civil parish

Galbally, and its townlands

Barony

Coshlea

Electoral division

Anglesborough, the unit of the census

Census 2022

341 people lived in 133 households in the Anglesborough electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynatona, Curraghkilbran, Garrynalyna, Keeloges, Spittle

Placenames

Knockaunnacurraha 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.