Knockalough

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockalough, from 2,333 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres) to 100,451 m² (10.05 ha, 24.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 6 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 Knockalough 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 Knockalough 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

• Special Area of Conservation: Templehouse and Cloonacleigha Loughs SAC 000636
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Templehouse And Cloonacleigha Loughs 000636

Recorded monuments

• SL032-198 Crannog
  Description

  In shallow water in the S half of Cloonacleigha Lough. The lake is surrounded by drumlins, with views of Knocknashee and Muckelty Hill in the distance to NW and W respectively. An oval high-cairn crannog (24m N-S; 18m E-W; H 1.27m above the water). A central medium-sized mid-cairn, with a flat area of soil in the middle, is surrounded by a plateau of loosely packed angular and rounded stones interspersed with sand. In places these stones lie on top of smaller angular stones (diam. 0.1-0.15m). The E edge of the plateau is steep while the W edge spreads out evenly towards the water. A causeway at S connecting the crannog to land is visible in an aerial photograph (GSIAP, G 264-5). This causeway was not accessible from the crannog due to reeds and bog growth. The crannog itself is almost inaccessible due to overgrowth of bushes, briars and trees. There is a moated site (SL032-199----) on the shoreline c. 140m to SE (O'Conor 1998, 88; O'Sullivan 1998, pl. 52). A crannog (SL032-226----) lies c. 100m to N and another (SL033-109----) lies c. 400m to NE. 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

• SL032-199 Moated site
  Description

  On low-lying boggy ground, just above the S shore of Cloonacleigha Lough. A square area (25.5m NE-SW; 24.3m NW-SE) defined by an inner earthen bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.5m) along the SW side and by a scarp elsewhere. The intervening fosse (Wth 4m) is flat-bottomed and boggy. The outer bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 0.3m) is evident along the SW, NW and NE sides. The E corner and the SE side are truncated by a field boundary. The interior is wet. There is a crannog (SL032-198----), connected to the shore by a causeway, c. 140m to NW in Cloonacleigha Lough. (O'Conor 1998, 88; O'Sullivan 1998, pl. 52). 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

• SL032-226 Crannog
  Description

  In the middle of Cloonacleigha Lough, c. 100m N of another crannog (SL032-198----). The lake is surrounded by drumlins with views of the distant summits of Kesh Corann, Knocknashee and Muckelty Hill. A circular low-cairn crannog (17.8m N-S; 18m E-W; H 0.54m above the water) in the centre of which is a distinct area (6m N-S; 4.5m E-W) of stones and brown sandy soil. Around this is a plateau stretching out in all directions for c. 2m. The N edge of the crannog is marked by a semicircle of large limestone stones (diam. 0.4-0.6m). The crannog is covered by long grass. Another crannog (SL033-109----) lies c. 300m to NE. 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 Knockalough.

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 Knockalough, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Knockalough · Cnoc an Locha

Area

439,596 m² (43.96 ha, 108.63 acres)

Civil parish

Cloonoghil, and its townlands

Barony

Corran

Electoral division

Owenmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

102 people lived in 45 households in the Owenmore electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brackcloonagh, Carrowreagh, Cartronroe, Cloonacleigha, Cloonagahaun, Clooncose, Drumraine, Lislea

Placenames

Knockalough 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.