Knocknagawna

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknagawna, from 1,852 m² to 66,190 m² (6.62 ha, 16.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 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 Knocknagawna 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.

• 30 Jul 2018Conditional

  Planning permission to erect a new dwelling house and provide a sewerage system and a treatment plant, to provide secondary and tertiary treatment and all associated works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 18384

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 Knocknagawna.

Recorded monuments

• RO017-049 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On top of the W end of an E-W drumlin ridge. Circular overgrown area (diam. c. 48m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.8-6.5m; int. H 0.5-1m; ext. H 2m) and fosse (Wth of base 3m; D 0.2-0.8m) which is partly re-cut as a field drain. There is an entrance and causeway (Wth 5m) at E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO017-050 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 45m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a low rise. Subcircular grass-covered and poached area (dims 28m E-W; 24.5m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3-3.5m; int. H 0.2-0.6m; ext. H 0.4-1-4m) and hedge with an outer fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.1-0.3m) W-E-S. There is no evidence of the perimeter S-W, and there is no visible entrance. Rath (RO017-051----) is c. 130m to the ENE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO017-051 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low knoll. Oval scrub-covered area (dims 39m N-S; 31m E-W) defined by a gapped earthen bank (Wth 3-4m; int. H 0.3-1m; ext. H 0.6-1.4m) and hedge, with an outer fosse (Wth of base 2.5-3m; D 0.2-0.5m) SW-NNW. There is no visible entrance. Rath (RO017-050----) is c. 130m to the WSW, and cashel (RO017-056----) is c. 190m to the ENE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO017-055 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the SW-facing slope of a drumlin. Circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 48m N-S; 48m E-W) defined by an earthen bank with some bushes (Wth 2.85m at N to 3.6m at E; int. H 0.45m at S to 0.85m at W; ext. H 0.8m at N to 1m E-W), and an outer fosse (Wth of base 2m at S to 3.3m N; D 0.1m at S to 0.3m at N) SE-W-NNE. There is no visible entrance, but the perimeter is quarried NNE-ENE. See the attached aerial view taken from the SSE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO017-056 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a narrow shelf of a gentle E-facing slope. Oval grass-covered area (int. dims 31m E-W; 25m N-S) defined by a grass and scrub-covered stone spread (Wth 1.6m at E to 3.4m at W; int. H 0.1m at E to 0.8m at S; ext. H 0.5m at E to 0.9m at W) NE-S-WNW, which is rebuilt as a field wall and hedge NW-NE. There is no visible entrance. Rath (RO017-051----) is c. 190m to the WSW, and rath (RO017-057----) is c. 90m to the E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO017-057 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low knoll. Circular scrub-covered area (diam. 32m E-W; 30m N-S) defined by a scrub-covered earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.2-0.55m; ext. H 1m) SW-W-NE, and a straight scarp (H 1.2-1.5m) E-S where some quarrying has occurred. There is no visible fosse or entrance. Cashel (RO017-056----) is c. 90m to the W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO017-058 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Towards the bottom of the SE-facing slope of a drumlin. Subcircular overgrown area (dims 30m N-S; 25.2m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 5-5.3m; int. H 0.3-1m; ext. H 0.5-1m) ESE-W-NW which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.9-1.4m) elsewhere, separated by a complete fosse (Wth of top 3.5m; Wth of base 2.5-2.8m) from an outer bank (Wth 4.3-5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.2-0.7m) S-E. There is no visible entrance, but the perimeter is partly obscured by field spoil. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knocknagawna, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Knocknagawna with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Knocknagawna

Area

1,393,056 m² (139.31 ha, 344.23 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmore, and its townlands

Barony

Ballintober North

Electoral division

Kilmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

184 people lived in 69 households in the Kilmore electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 14% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballagh, Cloonmeane, Cloonshannagh, Cloonsillagh, Corbaun, Drumamoodan, Killinaddan, Toomore

Placenames

Knocknagawna 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.