Knockcroghery

134 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockcroghery, from 1 m² to 182,546 m² (18.25 ha, 45.11 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Knockcroghery 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.

• 23 Jun 2026Conditional

  Permission and Retention Permission for the following: Permission for beer wine spirits retail Off Licence subsidiary to main retail use and Retention of retail shop as built and all associated ancillary works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660307

• 30 Mar 2025Refused

  Permission for alterations and extension to existing dwelling house . The proposed alterations consist of A. Erection of two storey extension to rear of the existing house B. Close up window openings to side elevations of existing house C. Demolition of existing rear extension D. Erection of domestic garage E. All ancillary development works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560139

• 25 Mar 2025N/a

  Permission for: A. Erection of two storey extension to rear of existing house, B. Close up existing window openings to side elevations of existing house, C. Demolition of existing rear extension, D. Erection of new domestic store to rear of building and E. All ancillary development works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560129

• 27 Nov 2024Conditional

  Permission for works to uprate approximately 35.7km of the overall 35.82km of the existing Athlone to Lanesboro 110 kV overhead line (OHL) circuit located within the administrative boundary within County Roscommon. The proposed development will consist of: • Replacement (“restringing”) and uprating of the conductor along the existing Athlone-Lanesboro 110 kV OHL circuit; • Provision of fibre communication connection on the uprated circuit; • Replacement of 155No. Intermediate Wooden Polesets (IMPs), with similar structures, including poleset stays at 32No. IMPs. The change in structures will result in standardised heights from 16m to 23m along the circuit, the majority of height increases will be between 0.1m and 2.0m (at 125 No. IMPs), with the remainder between 2.1m and 3.7m, and a 4.0m height increase at only one IMP. 3no. IMP replacements will not result in a height change; • Replacement of 25No. Intermediate Wooden Poleset crossarms; • Replacement of 1No. steel angle mast, the replacement structure will result in a height increase of 0.5m; • Foundation strengthening of 9No. steel angle masts, and 1No. end mast; • Bar member replacements to 12No. steel angle masts and 1No. end mast; and, •All associated development including insulator/hardware replacement (suspension clamps and vibration dampers), replacement of signage, painting of angle masts, replacement/installation of anticlimbing guards, access tracks, vegetation clearance, temporary construction compounds and all other works necessary to facilitate the development. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared to accompany this planning application, the location of which begins at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2460559

• 29 Jul 2024Conditional

  Planning permission to erect a honed limestone Jimmy Murray memorial statue with new access footpath including all associated site development works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2460360

• 25 Jul 2024Conditional

  Permission to convert the attic from storage to habitable living accommodation ancillary to the existing dwelling, including 1no. new window on the south gable of the house at first floor, 3 no. roof lights to the front, 3 no. roof lights to the rear of the house and all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2460349

• 1 Jul 2024N/a

  Permission for alterations and extension to existing dwelling house consisting of: A. Erection of two storey extension to rear of dwelling house, B. Close up existing window openings to side elevations of existing house, C. Demolition of existing rear extension, D. Revision of existing access to site, E. Erection of new, domestic store to rear of building and F. All ancillary development works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2460299

• 1 Jun 2023Conditional

  Permission for a change of use from an existing GP Room to a Montessori/Preschool facility and all associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 23230

• 1 Sept 2021Conditional

  Permission to carry out alterations to existing dwelling to provide first floor accommodation, altering the front elevation by adding two velux windows and additionally to construct a single storey extension onto the rear of existing dwelling house and all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21494

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 Knockcroghery.

Recorded monuments

• RO042-061001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  At the crest of the N-facing slope of a N-S ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 37.5m ENE-WSW; 36.7m NNW-SSE) defined by an earthen bank with some bushes (Wth 5.3-5.5m; int. H c. 1m; ext. H c. 2m). A fosse that was visible at S (Gannon 1972) is now back-filled, and there is no recognisable entrance. A house site (RO042-061002-) (ext. dims 6.75m N-S; 6m E-W) defined by a low bank is attached to the inside of the perimeter at N, and there has been some quarrying inside the perimeter at SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO042-061002 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  At the crest of the NW-facing slope of a N-S ridge. A house site (ext. dims 6.75m N-S; 6m E-W) defined by a low bank is attached to the inside of the perimeter of rath (RO042-061001-) at N. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO042-063 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m), and situated at the crest of the N end of a short NNW-SSE ridge with outcropping rock. Described as a subcircular area (dims 39m E-W; 34m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Gannon 1972). An arc (C 33m) of an earthen bank (at SE: Wth 2.8m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.8m) NE-S survives SE of a NE-SW field wall. A hearth (diam. 0.6-0.7m) was found in archaeological testing (02E0616) c. 75m to the NW (Morahan 2004a). Rath (RO042-064----) is c. 180m to the SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

• House, 1920–1925 · Regional interest
  Description

  Pair of terraced three-bay two-storey houses, built 1923, now in use as one building with shopfront. Modern balcony to rear. Pitched tiled roof with ruled-and-lined rendered chimneystacks. Ruled-and-lined render to front elevation, with pebbledash to side and rear elevations. Tripartite timber sash windows to north house. Timber panelled door with sidelights and overlights. Timber sash windows to south house with shopfront comprising timber panelled double doors with fixed display windows, painted fascia with console brackets and cornice. Some replacement windows to rear. Wrought-iron gate to side giving access to rear. Stone and roughcast-rendered outbuildings to rear site. Pair front onto street.

• J.S. Murray, house, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay three-storey house, built c.1840, extended to east with three-bay two-storey block. Shop and public house to ground floor and extension to rear. Pitched tiled roofs with rendered chimneystacks. Pebbledashed walls with rendered plinth. Timber sash windows with stucco surrounds and stone sills. Painted tooled block-and-start door surround with keystone containing timber panelled door with fanlight. Shopfront comprising timber panelled double doors, flanking display windows, console brackets to cornice with rendered fascia with applied lettering. Limestone threshold to timber panelled door. House fronts onto street.

• Water pump, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron water pump, c.1870, now disused. Comprising cylindrical shaft with raised horizontal banding, fluted upper section, spout, ogee-domed cap and cow-tail style handle. Set back from road on stepped concrete platform with roughcast-rendered wall to rear and north-west side.

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

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 Knockcroghery.

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

Name

Knockcroghery · Cnoc an Chrochaire

Area

883,985 m² (88.4 ha, 218.44 acres)

Civil parish

Killinvoy, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone North

Electoral division

Scregg, the unit of the census

Census 2022

556 people lived in 201 households in the Scregg electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corboley, Cornamart, Creggan, Galey, Glebe, Lisnahoon, Scregg, Srah

Placenames

Knockcroghery 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.