Ashbrook or Knocknabarnaboy
Ashbrook or Knocknabarnaboy is a townland in the civil parish of Lissonuffy, barony of Roscommon, Co. Roscommon. Its name in Irish is Cnoc na Bearna Buí.
Parcel 690490
- Area
- 56,497 m² (5.65 ha, 13.96 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
- Ashbrook or Knocknabarnaboy
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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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
- 96.7 ha
- 239 acres
- Land parcels
- 23
- registered freehold, median 28,367 m² (2.84 ha, 7.01 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ashbrook or Knocknabarnaboy, from 1,144 m² to 248,272 m² (24.83 ha, 61.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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
No zone of a development plan covers Ashbrook or Knocknabarnaboy 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
1 Apr 2025Conditional
Permission for the following: 1. to refurbish existing house, to include alterations to elevations, 2. to construct new extension to same, 3. to upgrade treatment system and percolation area, 4. to internally realign farm access road, and carry out all ancillary site development works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560141
30 Jun 2021Conditional
permission to demolish rear annex to dwelling house and construct replacement extension, to decommission existing septic tank and to construct replacement sewerage treatment system at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21365
25 Jun 2021N/a
Permission to demolish existing rear annex to dwelling house and construct replacement extension, to decommission existing septic tank and to construct replacement sewerage treatment system at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 21354
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 Ashbrook or Knocknabarnaboy.
Recorded monuments
- RO029-080 Ringfort - rath
Description
Towards the bottom of a W-facing slope of Slieve Bawn. Described as a circular area (diam. 49m E-W; 48.5m N-S) defined by an earthen bank and outer fosse with traces of an inner fosse at S and NW. There was an entrance (Wth 3m) and causeway at SE (Gannon 1972). It is not now visible at ground level and is partly occupied by farm buildings. 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 Ashbrook or Knocknabarnaboy.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Ashbrook or Knocknabarnaboy, 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 Ashbrook or Knocknabarnaboy.
- 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 Ashbrook or Knocknabarnaboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Ashbrook or Knocknabarnaboy · Cnoc na Bearna Buí
- Area
- 966,723 m² (96.67 ha, 238.88 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lissonuffy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Roscommon
- Electoral division
- Bumlin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 534 people lived in 195 households in the Bumlin electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 48% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyhubert, Bellmount or Cloggernagh, Bunnageddy, Castlenode, Corhawny, Treanacreeve
- Placenames
- Ashbrook or Knocknabarnaboy 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.