Knocknaranhy

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknaranhy, from 947 m² to 308,174 m² (30.82 ha, 76.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Knocknaranhy 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 2025Conditional

  for the development which will consist of an extension to existing dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 2560224

• 7 Oct 2022Conditional

  for development which will consist of a dwelling house with proprietary wastewater treatment system and polishing filter together with ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 22903

• 19 Jun 2017Conditional

  for development which consists of the RETENTION of first floor double doors, raised timber decking and chimney together with ancillary site works

  Retention · Clare County Council, 17473

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 Knocknaranhy.

Recorded monuments

• CL008-038001 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  On a hillock in undulating pastureland, with wide views in all directions, and overlooking another ring-barrow (CL008-038002-) c. 21m to the E. Indicated as a barrow on Robinson's (1977) map. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the RMP (1996). This subcircular ring-barrow (ext. dims. 14.5m E-W; 13m N-S) comprises a flat-topped earthen mound (diam. 5.1m; H 0.2-0.3m) enclosed by a flat-based steep-sided fosse (Wth 1.7-1.95m) and a round-topped outer bank (Wth 2.15-2.8m; int. H 0.25-0.45m; ext. H 0.4-0.6m). There is an entrance gap (Wth 2.9m) and causeway over the fosse at the S. The following images have been uploaded: CL008-038001-_01.jpg View from N of W half of ring-barrow CL008-038001-_02.jpg View from N of E half of ring-barrow Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 26 September 2022

• CL008-038002 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  On the gentle SE-facing slope of a E-W ridge in undulating pastureland with wide views but overlooked by a rise c. 21m to the W, on which there is another ring-barrow (CL008-038001-). Hachured on the 1897 OS 25-inch plan and 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Indicated as a barrow on Robinson's (1977) map. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the RMP (1996). This ring-barrow comprises a slightly domed steep-sided almost circular earthen mound (base dims. 13.6m N-S; 13.2m E-W; diam. at top 11.7m; H 0.3-0.9m) enclosed by a flat-based fosse (Wth at base 3.7-4.5m), which is partly filled with rushes and furze, and a steep-sided outer bank (Wth at base 4.7-7.7m; Wth at top 1.1-1.5m; int. H 0.55-1.7m; ext. H 0-0.45m) that is round-topped at W and E, and flat-topped at N and S. The bank is overgrown with furze from NNE-E, and a later field wall overlies its outer edge from NNE-SE. The following images have been uploaded: CL008-038002-_01.jpg View from NW CL008-028002-_02.jpg View from SSE Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 26 September 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knocknaranhy, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Knocknaranhy

Area

827,017 m² (82.7 ha, 204.36 acres)

Civil parish

Killilagh, and its townlands

Barony

Corcomroe

Electoral division

Lurraga, the unit of the census

Census 2022

296 people lived in 98 households in the Lurraga electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardeamush, Gortaclob, Island, Knockaguilla, Knockaskeheen, Toornahooan

Placenames

Knocknaranhy 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.