Knocknacross

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknacross, from 1,718 m² to 162,088 m² (16.21 ha, 40.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Knocknacross 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 Knocknacross 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

• Special Area of Conservation: Unshin River SAC 001898
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Unshin River 001898

Recorded monuments

• SL034-051 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In improved pasture, on the S-facing slope of a low ridge. The poorly preserved remains of a circular area (diam. c. 20m) defined by an arc of earthen bank (Wth 2.3m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.5m) SW-NW with a shallow external fosse (Wth c. 2m) and the faint outline of a bank NW-NE. There are no visible remains of the bank NE-SW or of the adjoining N-S field boundary which is indicated on the 1914 OS 6-inch map cutting the E side of the rath. There is a mound of field clearance material inside the bank at W. Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as an oval embanked area (c. 40m N-S; 30m E-W). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL034-052 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough poorly drained pasture, near the base of the S-facing slope of a ridge. A circular area (int. diam. 20m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.6m) which has remains of internal stone kerbing evident along its N arc. A silted-up external fosse is marked by a band of rushes (Wth c. 2m). The interior, which is overgrown with rushes, slopes down to S. There is a possible hut site (SL034-052001-) in the N half of the interior. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL034-052001 Hut site
  Description

  In the N half of the interior of a rath (SL034-052----), 2m inside the bank. A circular patch of rushes surrounded by a band (Wth 1m) of grass may indicate a levelled circular hut site (int. diam. c. 3m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL034-236 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough pasture, on top of a ridge. An oval area (40m N-S; 32m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; int. 0.6m; ext. H 1.3m) NNW-W with two large gaps in the E arc and a 16m wide gap in the S arc. The bank bulges c. 2m into the interior along the N arc. A band of rushes (Wth 3m) along the SW arc may indicate the line of an external silted-up fosse. The interior slopes slightly down to S. A field boundary skirts the W half of the rath. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knocknacross, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low.

Terrain model

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

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 Knocknacross with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Knocknacross · Cnoc na Croise

Area

926,135 m² (92.61 ha, 228.85 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacallan, and its townlands

Barony

Tirerrill

Electoral division

Riverstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

753 people lived in 283 households in the Riverstown electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardagh, Carrowreagh, Doonsheheen, Drumraine, Fidwog

Placenames

Knocknacross 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.