Knocknacroy
Knocknacroy is a townland in the civil parish of Toomour, barony of Corran, Co. Sligo. Its name in Irish is Cnocán na Croiche.
Parcel 727896
- Area
- 3,193 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 129 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
- Knocknacroy
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
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 2 recorded monuments.
- SL039-031 Road - road/trackway
Description
Bóthar an Corann or Bothar na Slieve connected the town of Ballymote, Co. Sligo with Boyle, Co. Roscommon by a route around the SW side of Kesh Corran and to the W of the Bricklieve Mountains, a distance of c. 20km. According to Timoney and Timoney (2001, 21), Richard de Burgh, the Red Earl of Ulster, is credited with building this road to get from his castle at Ballymote (SL033-092----) into Roscommon. This entry deals only with that part of the road in Co. Sligo, i.e. from close to Ballymote as far as the Roscommon border. The road traverses a number of townlands over a number of the 1914 edition of the OS 6-inch sheets: OS 33: Ardsallagh/ Corhober/Mullaghcor; OS 39: Ardsallagh/Knocknacroy/Cross/Cloonagh/ Knocknawhishoge; OS 40:Carrowreagh/Dernaskeagh; OS 45: Meenmore/ Derrygolagh/Dernaskeagh. A possible link road between Bothar an Corann and Bothar an Iarla Ruaid (SL033-147---) goes from Greenan townland, around the S side of the Bricklieve Mountains, to Ballinafad. Sections of Bóthar an Corann are recorded as five separate records (SL033-145---; SL039-031----; SL040-143----; SL040-153----; SL045-002----) commencing at Ballymote and following the route SE to the county boundary with Roscommon. Only sections of the road are indicated on these maps though it was, of course, continuous. This section (SL039-31----) is a relatively long portion (L c. 2.3km). It is mainly orientated NW-SE, is tarred and is in use as a byroad. It is 3-4m wide and is flanked by walls, which in parts have been replaced by post-and-wire fencing. A section (L 0.8km) of the road that extends from Knocknacroy into Knocknawhishoge is not tarred and survives as a grassed-over metalled track flanked by field fences and currently used as a farm trackway. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of revision: 1 June 2011
- SL039-033 Enclosure
Description
On top of a hillock, on a break of the W-facing lower slope of Kesh Corann hill. The enclosure is levelled and not visible at ground level. Indicated as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 15m) on the 1838 OS 6-inch map and as an oval mound (c. 20m x c. 10m) on the 1914 OS 6-inch map. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008
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 moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1107 (ZIP).
- 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
- 17.2 ha
- 43 acres
- Land parcels
- 3
- registered freehold, median 3,193 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknacroy, from 332 m² to 169,082 m² (16.91 ha, 41.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 7 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Knocknacroy 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
28 May 2018Conditional
Development consisting of the construction of a silage pit plus apron, an extension to existing slatted shed to provide additional housing for dairy Cattle, a roofed manure pit and a General purpose shed for calving facilities calf pens etc. including ancillary works (ie ancillary concrete yard enclosures etc. all for agricultural purposes only) in existing farmyard area.
Permission · Sligo County Council, 18207
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 Knocknacroy.
Recorded monuments
- SL039-028 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on the N-facing slope of a drumlin. An oval area (int. diam. 26.4m N-S; 20.5m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2.9m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1m), except along the E arc where a scarp (H 1m) exists. The bank is best preserved along the S and W arcs where overgrown with bushes. An external fosse (Wth 6.4m; D 0.4m) is clearly visible along the N arc but is shallow elsewhere. The interior slopes gently down to E. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knocknacroy.
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 Knocknacroy, 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1107 (ZIP).
- 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 Knocknacroy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Knocknacroy · Cnocán na Croiche
- Area
- 172,167 m² (17.22 ha, 42.54 acres)
- Civil parish
- Toomour, and its townlands
- Barony
- Corran
- Electoral division
- Bricklieve, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 213 people lived in 85 households in the Bricklieve electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cross, Drumnagranshy, Greyfield, Knocknawhishoge, Tonaponra
- Placenames
- Knocknacroy 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.