Kilknockan
Kilknockan is a townland in the civil parish of Adare, barony of Kenry, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Coill an Chnocáin.
Parcel 5207048
- Area
- 2,094 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Kilknockan
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_780 (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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 82.5 ha
- 204 acres
- Land parcels
- 31
- registered freehold, median 5,213 m² (0.52 ha, 1.29 acres)
- Zoning
- G5
- Open Space and Recreation
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilknockan, from 269 m² to 140,886 m² (14.09 ha, 34.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- G5Open Space and Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
Adare Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Limerick · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
21 Aug 2025Conditional
construction of a dwelling house detached domestic garage, front boundary entrance walls, install a mechanical aeration unit and polishing filter system with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560830
18 Jun 2025Conditional
the erection of a 24m monopole structure on concrete base to support 9no. telecommunications antenna together with the installation of 1no. 0.6. dish, remote radio units and associated fencing, cabling, compound area, ground based equipment cabinets and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 25200
12 Jun 2025Conditional
construction of 2 no. pre-cast concrete ball walls each 20 metres long x 5 metres high, and AstroTurf surface 71 metres x 20 metres, 5 no. 1200 watt floodlights 15 metres high, mounted on the existing ball net poles and associated site works on the existing park
Permission · Limerick County Council, 25184
27 Feb 2025N/a
the erection of a 24m monopole structure on concrete base to support 9no. telecommunications antenna together with the installation of 1no. 0.6. dish, remote radie units and associated fencing, cabling, compound area, grandbased equipment cabinets and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2549
13 Dec 2023Conditional
the construction of a dwelling house detached domestic garage, front boundary entrance walls, install a mechanical aeration unit and polishing filter system with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2360925
26 Aug 2021N/a
an independent living unit attached to existing dwelling
Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211204
21 May 2021Conditional
the construction of a new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter, entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21699
30 Dec 2020Conditional
the replacement of the existing pitch lighting with a new floodlighting system consisting of 8no. lighting columns, 18m high and all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 201435
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Kilknockan.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kilknockan.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilknockan.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- 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, low (inferred). Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_780 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Kilknockan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Kilknockan · Coill an Chnocáin
- Area
- 825,293 m² (82.53 ha, 203.93 acres)
- Civil parish
- Adare, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kenry
- Electoral division
- Adare North, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 617 people lived in 210 households in the Adare North electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Copay, Curraghbeg, Curraghbridge, Rower Beg, Rower More, Tuogh
- Placenames
- Kilknockan 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.