Knocknagore

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknagore, from 5 m² to 111,509 m² (11.15 ha, 27.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Knocknagore 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 Knocknagore 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 Knocknagore.

Recorded monuments

• SL039-098 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on the S-facing slope of a drumlin. A circular area (int. diam. 20m N-S; 19.8m E-W) enclosed by a low earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1m) with a shallow external fosse (Wth 3.3m; D 0.2m). A slight trace of an outer earthen bank is evident along the E arc. The entrance (Wth 3.5m) is at S. The interior is uneven and waterlogged and slopes down to S even though the S portion is raised to compensate for the hillslope. 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

• SL039-099 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough grazing, on an E-facing slope and at the NW end of a drumlin. A circular area (int. diam. 24m N-S; 26.5m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (ext. H 1.5m). An external fosse (Wth 4.5m; D 0.35m) is evident along the NE arc. The interior is uneven and slopes down to E. According to local information, Mass was said in this rath during the Penal times. 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 Knocknagore.

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 Knocknagore, 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 Knocknagore.

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

Name

Knocknagore · Cnoc na nGabhar

Area

370,342 m² (37.03 ha, 91.51 acres)

Civil parish

Drumrat, and its townlands

Barony

Corran

Electoral division

Drumrat, the unit of the census

Census 2022

540 people lived in 203 households in the Drumrat electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clooncunny, Finisklin, Greyfield, Kildarganmore, Knockanaher, Knockatelly, Roosky Beg

Placenames

Knocknagore 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.