Knockalass

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockalass, from 293 m² to 211,571 m² (21.16 ha, 52.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Knockalass 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 Knockalass 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 Knockalass.

Recorded monuments

• SL038-117 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On top of a drumlin, overlooking bog to S and W. A raised circular area (27.5m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.75m; ext. H 0.8m) NNE-NNW and by a scarp (H 1.2m) NNW-NNE. An external dry flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 3.7m; D 0.4m) is evident SSE-SSW. The interior is grass-covered and the perimeter is overgrown with hawthorn bushes. 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

• SL038-118 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on the N-facing slope of a drumlin. A subcircular area (37m NW-SE; 34m NE-SW) enclosed by two earthen banks and a dry intervening fosse (Wth 6m; D 1.25m). The inner bank (Wth 6m; int. H 1.5m; ext. H 1.7m) has numerous gaps. The external bank (Wth 3.6m; ext. H 1.2m) is topped by a field boundary SSE-SW. Quarrying has occurred in the fosse at 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

Architectural heritage

• Knockalass House, farm house, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey rendered house, built c. 1840. Oblong plan with original three-bay house to west extended by one bay to the east, single-storey flat-roofed porch c. 1930 to centre of original house, single-bay flat-roofed extension to rear (north) c. 1930, contiguous two-storey hipped roof outbuilding to north-west. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, unpainted smooth-rendered corbelled chimneystacks, concrete verge cappings to gable-ends, half-round cast-iron gutters (mainly missing) on eaves corbel course. Painted smooth-rendered ruled-and-lined walls, straight V-jointed quoins, first floor sill course. Square-headed window openings, limestone sills, painted one-over-one timber sash windows c. 1900 to ground floor, six-over-six to first floor. Square-headed entrance door opening in porch, plain-glazed overlight and sidelights, painted panelled timber door. Two pitched slate roofed outbuildings and corrugated-iron barn to north. Three-bay single-storey cottage to north-east with fretted bargeboards. Located in ground at end of long lane, rubble stone and roughcast boundary walls.

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 Knockalass, about 1 in 5 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

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

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

Name

Knockalass · Cnoc an Leasa

Area

543,945 m² (54.39 ha, 134.41 acres)

Civil parish

Kilturra, and its townlands

Barony

Corran

Electoral division

Kilturra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

226 people lived in 76 households in the Kilturra electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Everlaun, Kilturra, Knockrawer, Quarryfield

Placenames

Knockalass 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.