Knockskehan
Knockskehan is a townland in the civil parish of St. Johns, barony of Athlone South, Co. Roscommon. Its name in Irish is Cnoc Sciatháin.
Parcel 717438
- Area
- 31,770 m² (3.18 ha, 7.85 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 212 m².
- 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
- Knockskehan
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
- 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 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
- 92.5 ha
- 228 acres
- Land parcels
- 42
- registered freehold, median 6,176 m² (0.62 ha, 1.53 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockskehan, from 1,856 m² to 147,595 m² (14.76 ha, 36.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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 Knockskehan 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
10 Nov 2023Conditional
Permission to refurbish derelict house, to include alterations to elevations, and to construct new rear extension and new front porch to same, along with installing new treatment system and percolation area, and all ancillary site development works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2360210
18 Dec 2018Conditional
to construct an extension to side of existing dwellinghouse and carry out all associated site development works
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 18626
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 Knockskehan.
Recorded monuments
- RO046-001 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a hilltop overlooking Lough Ree, c. 850m to the E. Circular overgrown area (diam. 35.7m ENE-WSW) defined by a grass and scrub-covered scarp (H 0.9m at E to 1.6m at W) which is surrounded by a drystone field wall. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. At the centre is a modern circular drystone-built structure (int. diam. c. 3m) with a sunken path approaching it from 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 Knockskehan.
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
- 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 low, low, low (inferred).
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knockskehan.
- 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 Knockskehan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Knockskehan · Cnoc Sciatháin
- Area
- 924,651 m² (92.47 ha, 228.49 acres)
- Civil parish
- St. Johns, and its townlands
- Barony
- Athlone South
- Electoral division
- Lecarrow, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 333 people lived in 124 households in the Lecarrow electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballybrogan, Carrownamaddy, Carrownure Lower, Rinnagan
- Placenames
- Knockskehan 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.