Knockmore

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockmore, from 683 m² to 114,617 m² (11.46 ha, 28.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Knockmore 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 Knockmore 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 Knockmore.

Recorded monuments

• SL041-045 Sweathouse
  Description

  Listed in both the SMR (1989) and RMP (1995) and classified 'Sweathouse'. In pasture, on the SW-facing slope of Knockmore hill and built against the NW side of a wet rectangular hollow (11.5m NW-SE; 13m NE-SW). A sod-covered subcircular chamber (int. diam. c. 1.8m; int. H 1.8m) with random rubble walls (T 0.65m) covered by a partially collapsed corbelled roof. There is a lintelled entrance (Wth 0.45m; H 0.55m) at SW. This is likely to be post-1700 AD in date. Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC Date of upload: 10 January 2012

• SL041-047 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In a paddock, 50m NW of a derelict farmhouse. Named 'Tobercaleen' on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. An oval depression (2m N-S; 2.6m E-W) defined SE-NE by earth and rock (int. H 1.2m) and NE-SE by a muddy gently sloping ramp to the exterior. The base of the well is of rock and mud and holds 0.4m of water. Water is piped from it to water troughs nearby. According to local information, there are no cures associated with this well and no tradition of 'patterns' or pilgrimages. There is, however, a local tradition that it has moved from upslope to W to its present location. There is another holy well (SL041-046----) c. 200m to NW in Cloystuckera townland. Templecaleen church (SL041-048001-) is c. 90m to S. Another church (SL041-049----) lies 150m to 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

• SL041-048001 Church
  Description

  In level pasture. The church, which is indicated on the 1914 OS 6-inch map as a rectangular structure (c. 10m E-W; c. 5m N-S), is reduced to a scatter of rubble covered by dense scrub overgrowth. According to local information, it was '20ft [6m] long and 14ft [4.2m] wide with a bit of a gable'. A displaced stone (L 1m; 0.2m x 0.2m), to the S of the church, is said to have been an altar stone. There is also a local tradition of an associated graveyard (SL041-048004-) but no visible remains of this are apparent. There is a holy well (SL041-047----) 90m to the N. The church is named 'Templecaleen', on the 1914 OS 6-inch map, but on the 1838 OS 6-inch map this name is given to a nearby site (SL041-049----), 50m to the 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

• SL041-048004 Graveyard
  Description

  There is a local tradition of a graveyard associated with the possible church (SL041-048001-) at Knockmore. However there are no visible remains of any graveyard here and no local information could be found on its existence during a site inspection in 2003. Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC with revisions by Patrick F. O'Donovan and Paul Walsh Date of upload: 20 June 2011

• SL041-049 Church
  Description

  In wet pasture, on a slight E-facing slope. Fragmentary remains of a rectangular structure (int. 11.5m E-W; 3.8m N-S) with walls (T 0.8m) of uncoursed mortared sandstone. The external corners have sandstone quoins, the best of which are at the SW corner where the lowest quoin rests on a large boulder (H 0.6m). There is a break in the N wall (L 2.6m) and sections (L c. 2m) of the E and W walls are reduced to 1m in height, possibly indicating the position of window opes. This structure is named 'Templecaleen' on the 1838 OS 6-inch map, but the name is transferred on the 1914 OS 6-inch map to an adjacent church site (SL041-048001-) 50m to the N. There is a holy well (SL041-047----) 150m to the N. 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 Knockmore.

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

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Knockmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Knockmore · An Cnoc Mór

Area

895,877 m² (89.59 ha, 221.38 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmactranny, and its townlands

Barony

Tirerrill

Electoral division

Kilmactranny, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilmactranny electoral division: 360 people in 133 households; 93% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghagowla (Co. Roscommon), Cloghmine, Clooneenhugh, Cloystuckera, Cuiltaboolia (Co. Roscommon), Derrynaneane, Derrynaslieve, Knockadrehid (Co. Roscommon)

Placenames

Knockmore 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.