Knockroe

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockroe, from 3 m² to 122,384 m² (12.24 ha, 30.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Knockroe 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 Knockroe 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: Lower River Suir SAC 002137

Recorded monuments

• KK034-009 Fulacht fia
  Description

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• KK034-010 Standing stone
  Description

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• KK034-011 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

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• KK034-019001 Megalithic tomb - passage tomb
  Description

  National Monument No. 655. On a gentle W facing slope, 120m E of the Lingaun River, surrounded by pasture. There are very good views of hills to the SE-S-SW and of Slievenamon to the W, with Baunfree passage tomb (KK034-031----) on Kilmacoliver Hill being visible 3.6km to the SSE and the cairn (TS078-001----) on Slivevenamon being visible 11km to the WSW. The monument is described by Carrigan (1905, vol. 4, 324-5), who mentions a lane cutting across the centre of the ‘Coshel’. It is described by Ó Nualláin and Cody (1987, vol. 117, 71-4) as a roughly circular, though quite overgrown, mound (diam. 27m; H 0.7-1m), defined by kerbstones, with two passages, one in the SW (L 3.5m; Wth at entrance 0.2m widening to 1m at rear), consisting of 12 orthostats, and the other smaller passage in the SE. Decoration on some of the kerbstones and on the orthostats of the SW tomb was noted (ibid., 71). Between 1990 and 1995 four seasons of archaeological excavation (Licence No. E000554) were carried out (O'Sullivan 1991, 40; 1992, 31; 1993, vol. 123, 5-18; 1995, 49-50; 1996, 51). It was found that the cairn was constructed on top of a raised earthen platform, which was created by scarping the slope (O’Sullivan 1993, vol. 123, 9). The cairn material was composed of three layers, the lower consisting of boulders (avg. diam. 0.3-0.4m) embedded in a dark reddish-purple soil which was overlaid by a layer of smaller stones (O’Sullivan 2011, No. 53). Over this lies a top layer of small stones which appear to be the result of relatively modern field clearance activity (ibid.). The SW tomb, which has a curving entrance façade, is larger and more elaborate than the SE tomb, having sophisticated decoration on many of its orthostats, as well as being aligned with the setting sun of the mid-Winter solstice (ibid.). The SE tomb was fully revealed during the excavations and it became evident that, unlike the SW tomb, this cruciform tomb (L 2.9m; Wth 2.2m) never had a passage extending to the edge of the kerbing of the mound (O’Sullivan 1993, vol. 123, 9). Also, only two of the orthostats of the SE tomb are decorated (ibid.). During the excavations considerable quantities of cremated bone were recovered from both tombs, though especially the SW tomb, as well as bone and antler pins, beads and pendants (ibid.). The lower part of a Carrowkeel Bowl and sherds of other Neolithic vessels were recovered from the SE tomb (ibid.). Fragments of Beaker pottery were recovered between the SE tomb and the kerbstones and a Food Vessel was found in the SW tomb (ibid.). The passage tomb art on the orthostats and kerbstones is described in detail by O’Sullivan (1987, vol. 117, 84-95). See attached drawings of the passage-tomb art taken from O'Sullivan 1987. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 17 November 2017

• KK034-019002 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

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• KK034-019003 Passage tomb art
  Description

  In a laneway 25m NE of Knockroe passage tomb (KK034-019001-), propped up against a drystone wall. Identified and recorded by Aoibheann Lambe (25 April 2018). An irregularly shaped pentagonal upright boulder, its long axis running N-S. It is concave on the W face (H 1m; max. Wth 1m). The upper face of the S side curves inwards; the top side (0.5m), part of which is broken away, and the base (0.7m) are both arching slightly upwards. The E face is obscured from view by the wall against which it leans. The W face is heavily spalled, chevrons (sides c. 0.1m) and diamond shapes are barely traceable. Cupmarks (max. diam. 0.03m) are dispersed over the surface, most clearly visible at the top left and bottom right of the W face. The most clearly defined motif on the W face is a centrally located diamond-shaped ring in positive relief (L c. 0.16m), located c. 0.5m in from the N side and 0.25m above the base with two more diamond-shaped rings immediately S of this motif. Chevrons running N-S across the face above these rings. Other diamond shapes and chevrons on the W face are faint. The boulder’s edge between its N and W faces is punctuated by at least five evenly spaced hollows (Diam. 0.03m). The N-facing side (L c. 1m; T c. 0.2m) is heavily inscribed with diamond rings, chevrons and cupmarks. No inscriptions were observed on the exposed part of the E face, the base or side of the S face. (Lambe 2018, unpublished report). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 2 May 2018

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockroe.

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 Knockroe, about 1 in 20 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 Knockroe.

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 Knockroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Knockroe · An Cnoc Rua

Area

761,917 m² (76.19 ha, 188.27 acres)

Civil parish

Tullahought, and its townlands

Barony

Kells

Electoral division

Killamery, the unit of the census

Census 2022

237 people lived in 91 households in the Killamery electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ahenny (Co. Tipperary), Castlejohn (Co. Tipperary), Clashnasmut (Co. Tipperary), Inchanaglogh, Kiltrassy, Meallaghmore, Meallaghmore Lower, Oldcastle Lower

Placenames

Knockroe 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.