Knockanroe

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockanroe, from 303 m² to 182,357 m² (18.24 ha, 45.06 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 Knockanroe 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.

• 8 Jun 2026Conditional

  decommissioning a septic tank and installing a new wastewater treatment system & percolation area, alterations to the site layout plan previously approved under planning reference 21/218, and all ancillary site works.

  Retention · Leitrim County Council, 2660143

• 15 Apr 2026Conditional

  unauthorized development: 1) single storey extension to the Southeast of the original detached dwelling house; 2) single storey extension to the Southwest; 3) first floor extension comprising of dormer type accommodation; 4) alterations to facades; 5) detached single storey garage; 6) wastewater treatment system; 7) revised site boundaries & 8) associated site works & services, and permission to modify roof windows to Southeast façade.

  Retention · Leitrim County Council, 2660097

• 17 Nov 2022Conditional

  construction of a new two storey dwelling house, garage, carport, wastewater treatment system, enhancement works to existing vehicular access from public road and associated site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 22239

• 19 Oct 2021Conditional

  (A) Demolition of an existing extension to rear of single storey dwelling, (B) Demolition of 2no. single storey outbuildings, (C) Proposed erection of single storey extension to the sides & rear of dwelling, including alterations to the layout & elevations, (D) Close existing site entrance and form new site entrance with associated piers, (E) Improvement works to existing Septic Tank Wastewater System, and (F) All associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 21218

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 Knockanroe.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockanroe.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knockanroe, about 1 in 20 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1730 (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.

No address of the register names Knockanroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Knockanroe · An Cnocán Rua

Area

381,161 m² (38.12 ha, 94.19 acres)

Civil parish

Oughteragh, and its townlands

Barony

Carrigallen

Electoral division

Garadice, the unit of the census

Census 2022

586 people lived in 237 households in the Garadice electoral division. 67% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bolganard, Cleendargan, Dromore, Fohera, Kildorragh

Placenames

Knockanroe 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.