Knockbrack

90 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockbrack, from 47 m² to 299,049 m² (29.9 ha, 73.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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 Knockbrack 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Knockbrack 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 the townland of Knockbrack.

Recorded monuments

• SL036-057001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In undulating pasture, on top of a low rise. A roughly circular area (int. diam. c. 33m N-S; c. 30m E-W) raised 0.5-2m above the external ground level. The interior is enclosed in parts by the remains of a drystone wall (Wth c. 1.5-2m; max. int. H 0.5m). A house and farmyard have been built into the N edge of the interior and an orchard has been planted on the E half of the interior. There is a possible souterrain (SL036-057002-) in the interior. 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

• SL036-057002 Souterrain
  Description

  In a cashel (SL036-057001-). According to local information, a 'cave' at the S edge of the cashel was closed up many years ago and there are now no visible remains of it. 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

• SL036-058001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pasture, on top of a ridge. This rath has been levelled; a circular area (diam. 26.5m NW-SE) defined by remains of a bank (Wth 2m; H 0.2-0.4m) NW-NE and by a scarp along the SE arc. The interior is heavily poached by cattle and there is a possible souterrain (SL036-058002-) in the W half. Indicated as rectangular (dims. c. 20m N-S; c. 25m E-W) on the 1838 OS 6-inch map with the bank at S and W abutting field boundaries. 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

• SL036-058002 Souterrain
  Description

  In a rath (SL036-058001-). According to local information, a 'cave' in the W half of the interior was blocked up c. 1920 and there are now no visible remains of it. 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

• SL036-059 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In pasture, on the southern slope of a ridge. An oval area (dims. 30m N-S; c. 33m E-W) enclosed by a drystone wall (Wth 2.2m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.5m) NW-SW. The wall has been removed SW-NW and stones pushed up against the inside of the surviving wall. The external face of the drystone wall has been repaired in places where it is used as a field boundary. The S half of the interior is raised to compensate for the hillslope. Field boundaries extend out from the cashel wall at N and S. 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

• SL036-060 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on the lower southern slopes of a ridge. This rath has been levelled; a circular area (diam. c. 23m) terraced into the hillslope, with the N portion up to 1m below and the S portion up to c. 1.9m above the external ground level. Indicated on the 1938 OS 6-inch map as an embanked circular area (diam. c. 20m) and on the 1914 OS 6-inch map as a hachured arc (diam. c. 25m) forming a scarp E-NW, surrounded on three sides (E, S and W) by field boundaries, at the S end of a narrow field (Wth 30m). 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

• SL036-061 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On top of a ridge. A raised roughly circular area (diam. 25.5m N-S; c. 23m E-W) revetted and enclosed by a drystone wall (Wth 0.8m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.35m). The maximum width of the enclosing wall is 1.5m. The cashel is closely surrounded by a modern field boundary wall and overgrown with blackthorn, hawthorn and brambles. 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

• SL036-062001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On top of a ridge. A circular area (diam. c. 30m) raised c. 1-1.7m above the external ground level. The raised interior is revetted by a collapsed drystone wall (Wth 1.5-3.5m) which rises in parts to a maximum of 0.75m above the interior. The cashel is densely overgrown with bushes. There is a souterrain (SL036A003002-) in the SW quadrant. 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

• SL036-066 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In flat boggy ground, on the lower southern slopes of the Ox Mountains. There is a stream immediately to N. A grass-covered horseshoe-shaped mound of heat-shattered stones and dark soil (9m NE-SW; 10m NW-SE; H 1m); the opening (Wth 3m) faces SW. 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

• SL036A001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On the steep, lower southern slopes of the Ox Mountains. This cashel is inaccessible due to a dense covering of bushes, brambles and gorse. 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

• SL036A003002 Souterrain
  Description

  In a cashel (SL036-062001-). A blocked-up passage or creepway is evident at the SW quadrant of the interior. 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 Knockbrack.

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 Knockbrack, 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.

Terrain model

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

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 Knockbrack with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Knockbrack · An Cnoc Breac

Area

2,651,929 m² (265.19 ha, 655.31 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacteige, and its townlands

Barony

Leyny

Electoral division

Aclare, the unit of the census

Census 2022

233 people lived in 105 households in the Aclare electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 24% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Belclare, Cartron (Co. Mayo), Claddagh, Creggaun (Co. Mayo), Drumagh (Co. Mayo), Knocks (Co. Mayo), Tulleague (Co. Mayo)

Placenames

Knockbrack 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.