Knocknahoo

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknahoo, from 21 m² to 203,067 m² (20.31 ha, 50.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 Knocknahoo 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 Knocknahoo 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 Knocknahoo.

Recorded monuments

• SL044-009 Enclosure
  Description

  In waterlogged pasture, on top of a low drumlin ridge. A D-shaped raised area (int. dims. 17.9m E-W) enclosed by a low earthen bank (Wth 2.2m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 1.1m) N-S and on the straight W side (L 26.5m N-S) by a field boundary. The entrance (Wth 1.4m) is at SE. The interior slopes down to E. 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

• SL044-011 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In wet pasture, on top of a ridge. A raised roughly circular area (int. diam. 20m E-W; 22.5m N-S) defined by a poorly preserved earthen bank along the E arc (Wth 3.2m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.1m) and by a scarp (H 1.6m) elsewhere. A ramp (L c. 5m), with a causeway across the fosse, is evident at N though no corresponding entrance survives. The interior is level. A field boundary slightly truncates the S edge of the rath. This field boundary was not indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. 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

• SL044-012 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the SE-facing spine of a narrow-topped ridge. A raised circular area (int. diam. 31m E-W; 31m N-S) enclosed by three earthen banks, best preserved along the W and S arcs, with intervening fosses. The inner bank is the highest (Wth 2.85m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.8m) and has possible stone facing. The middle bank (Wth 1.9m; ext. H 0.45m) drops 0.4m to base of inner fosse. The external bank (Wth 2.8m; ext. H 0.6m) drops 0.6m to the base of the middle fosse. There are narrow gaps through the inner, middle and outer banks (Wth 1m, 1.4m and 1m respectively) at W. The inner and middle fosses (Wth 1.95m and Wth 2.2m respectively) are both waterlogged. The interior rises towards the centre and slopes down towards E. 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 Knocknahoo.

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 Knocknahoo, 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 low, low.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1011 (ZIP).

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

Name

Knocknahoo · Cnoc na hUamha

Area

724,030 m² (72.4 ha, 178.91 acres)

Civil parish

Kilfree, and its townlands

Barony

Coolavin

Electoral division

Kilfree, the unit of the census

Census 2022

541 people lived in 230 households in the Kilfree electoral division. 69% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cuilmore, Gortygara, Knocknashammer

Placenames

Knocknahoo 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.