Knockavurrea

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockavurrea, from 1,087 m² to 117,454 m² (11.75 ha, 29.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Knockavurrea 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.

• 14 Aug 2024Conditional

  Retention permission to retain as constructed, reconstruction to former vacant dwelling including: 1. removal and reconstruction of rear, side and internal walls; 2. removal and reconstruction of roof; 3. construction of extension to the rear and 4. upgrade of existing wastewater treatment system together with all associated site works at

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2460385

• 23 Jul 2024N/a

  Retain as constructed, reconstruction to former vacant dwelling including 1. removal and reconstruction of rear, side and internal walls; 2. removal and reconstruction of roof; 3. construction of extension to the rear and, 4. upgrade of existing wastewater treatment system together with all associated site works at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2460347

• 15 Apr 2024N/a

  Retention Permission to retain as constructed, reconstruction of former vacant dwelling including: 1. Removal and reconstruction of rear, side and internal walls; 2. Removal and reconstruction of roof; 3. Construction of extension to the rear and, 4. Upgrade of existing wastewater treatment system together with all associated site works at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2460171

• 21 Nov 2023N/a

  Retention permission to retain as constructed renovations to existing vacant dwelling including extension to the rear and to upgrade existing waste water treatment system together with all associated site works at

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2360227

• 30 Oct 2023N/a

  Permission to retain as constructed renovations to existing vacant dwelling including extension to the rear and to upgrade existing wastewater treatment system together with all associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2360196

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 Knockavurrea.

Recorded monuments

• RO022-057065 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  At the E end of a low E-W ridge, which is at the E base of the Rathcroghan plateau. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 42.3m N-S; 41.7m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 6-6.5m; int. H 0.1m to 0.9m at S; ext. H 1.8-2.4m) which is separated by a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 9-10.8m; Wth of base 4.3-5.4m; D 1.1-1.4m) from an outer bank (Wth 4.6m-6.3m; H 0.6-1.1m) ESE-W-N. The interior slopes down to the E (H of slope 2.6m) where the inner bank is reduced to a scarp (H 1.6m) and the fosse to a berm (Wth 6.8m at E to 11.8 at N) defined by a scarp (H 0.3-0.7m) N-ESE. There is an entrance (Wth 2.m) in the inner bank at SE (max. ext. diam. 72m N-S; 70m E-W). Rath (RO022-107001-) is c. 250m to the E. 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 Knockavurrea.

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 Knockavurrea, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Knockavurrea

Area

492,558 m² (49.26 ha, 121.71 acres)

Civil parish

Elphin, and its townlands

Barony

Roscommon

Electoral division

Cloonyquin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

255 people lived in 95 households in the Cloonyquin electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 25% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cammoge, Carrowgobbadagh, Carrowntoosan, Drimnagh, Steill

Placenames

Knockavurrea 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.