Knockalegan

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockalegan, from 395 m² to 221,714 m² (22.17 ha, 54.79 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Knockalegan 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Knockalegan 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 the townland of Knockalegan.

Recorded monuments

• TS057-006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a slight S-facing slope in gently undulating pasture. Circular raised area (diam. 18m) enclosed by a broad earthen scarp (Wth 4m; ext. H 1.4-1.65m) with an external broad flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 4m; D 0.2m). Modern NNE-WSW orientated field bank lies along the outer edge of the fosse at W. An irregular ramp (Wth 8m) across the scarped edge with a sloping causeway across the fosse at SSE marks the position of the original entrance that has been widened in modern times. Interior slopes slightly facing SSE toward the entrance and is dry and clear of overgrowth. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS057-030001 Moated site
  Description

  In level pasture at the base of slight N-facing slope. Roughly rectangular area (dims. 34m N-S; 32m E-W) enclosed by an earthen scarp (Wth 4.8m; ext. H 0.7m) with a broad flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 1.7m) and a slight broad external earthen bank (int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.1m; Wth at top 3m; overall Wth 9.6m). N side of the moated site is slightly longer (L 36m) than the other sides. The fosse is almost entirely infilled and barely visible NW-NE along the N side of the moated site. The external bank is not visible NW-NE along the N side of the monument and a modern E-W orientated drain has been cut along the line of the external base of the absent bank. The original entrance is not recognisable. The interior is level, dry and clear of overgrowth. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS057-030002 Enclosure
  Description

  In gently undulating pasture on a slight N-facing slope. Moated site (TS057-030001-) is visible c. 60m to the NNE. Enclosure possible identifed on an aerial photograph (Bruff Site No. 45; Aerial photo no. 4/3617) as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 10m). Not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knockalegan, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Knockalegan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Knockalegan · Cnoc an Liagáin

Area

739,872 m² (73.99 ha, 182.83 acres)

Civil parish

Templebredon, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Rodus, the unit of the census

Census 2022

276 people lived in 97 households in the Rodus electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynagreanagh (Co. Limerick), Ballyneety South (Co. Limerick), Garrydoolis (Co. Limerick), Killeennagallive, Knockderk (Co. Limerick), Knockeravella (Co. Limerick), Templebredon (Co. Limerick)

Placenames

Knockalegan 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.