Knock

70 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knock, from 614 m² to 982,599 m² (98.26 ha, 242.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Knock 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.

• 17 Oct 2025Conditional

  Permission to construct 5 bay calf shed at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2572

• 12 May 2023Conditional

  Permission to construct 5 bay slatted shed with creep, silage slab, dung sted and cattle pen with crush together with associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 23194

• 27 Apr 2023N/a

  Permission to construct 5 bay slatted shed with creep, silage slab, dung stead and cattle pen with crush together with associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 23160

• 4 Feb 2020Conditional

  to (1) demolish existing back kitchen and bathroom extension (2) construct new storey and a half extension to the back of existing dwelling (3) construct new site entrance and all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2040

• 29 Jan 2020Conditional

  to construct 3 bay loose livestock shed with lie back together with associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2034

• 24 Sept 2019N/a

  permission to (1) demolish existing back kitchen and bathroom extension (2) to construct new storey and a half extension to the back of existing dwelling (3) the construction of new site entrance and all associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 19493

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 Knock.

Recorded monuments

• RO050-050 Enclosure
  Description

  In level ‘improved’ pasture. Visible on Bing aerial imagery (https://www.bing.com/maps/?cp=53.382558%7E-8.167236&lvl=17.9&style=a) as a circular area (diam. c. 30m) defined by the soilmark of a fosse (Wth 2-4m). Earlier Google Earth aerial imagery (18-4-2015) shows an overgrown bank curving NW-N-NE along the N limits of the site – suggesting a later field boundary incorporating section of a pre-existing enclosure, or curving to avoid one. Slightly later Google Earth aerial imagery (15-3-2016) shows fresh-looking clearance with the feature and associated field boundaries levelled. See attached images: • RO050-050---- / RO051-112----_01 Snip of Bing aerial image. • RO050-050---- / RO051-112----_02 Snip of Google Earth aerial images dated 18-4-2015 and 15-3-2016 Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy based on details provided by Anne-Karoline Distel. Date of upload: 3 August 2023

• RO051-069 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Marked as a circular enclosure on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on the summit of an E-W ridge towards the W end. Circular flat-topped and grass-covered mound (diam. of top 8.3m N-S; diam. of base 13.5m N-S; H 0.2-0.5m) separated by a fosse (Wth of base 3.8m at N to 7.5m at S; D 0.45-0.55m) from an outer earth and stone bank (Wth 4.8-5m; int. H 0.45-0.55m; ext. H 0.15-0.3m) which is disturbed NNE-ENE. There are traces of an external fosse or drain (at WSW: Wth of base 1.4m) most evident SSW-WSW (max. ext. diam. 34.5m N-S). Rath (RO051-070----) is c. 140m to the E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO051-070 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the crest of an E-W ridge towards the E end. Circular scrub-covered area (diam. 35.8m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5.3-8.3m; int. H 0.8-1.2m; ext. H 1.7-2.1m) separated by a fosse (at NW: Wth of top 6m; Wth of base 2.1m; D 1.5m) from an outer bank (at NW: Wth 2.6m; H 0.8m) with some bushes which is incorporated into a field bank. There is no visible entrance, and both banks are removed N-ESE. Ring-barrow (RO051-069----) is c. 140m to the W. See the attached view taken from the NE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO051-071 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on the W bank of a small S-N stream and at the N edge of a bog that extends off to the S. A structure is described in gothic lettering as Newcommen Castle on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, but on the 1915 ed. the location has moved eastwards, closer to the stream. An overgrown cairn (diam. c. 15m; H 1m) of stone with mortar adhering at this location is probably spoil from the castle rather than a children's burial ground, which it is locally thought to be. This was removed in Jan. 2007 but no features were uncovered. A double carhouse of 18th or 19th century date c. 50m to the W is on the site of Newcommen Castle. In 1617 Knock belonged to Donogh McKeogh (Moore 1978, 60). A castle and a mill are marked at Knock on the Strafford map of c. 1636 and in 1641 Feogh Mc Donnagh Keogh held 116 acres at Knock. However, by the 1660s this had passed to Sir Thomas Newcomen, who had acquired an estate of 1000 acres in Taghmaconnell parish (Simington 1949, 102-06). The Newcomen family came to Taghmaconnell from Co. Longford during the Cromwellian period and are thought to have built near a Keogh castle at Knock, but had built Camlagh House (RO050-012----), c. 4km to the NW before 1740. (Moore 2000, 17) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Knock with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Knock

Area

2,755,195 m² (275.52 ha, 680.82 acres)

Civil parish

Taghmaconnell, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone South

Electoral division

Carrowreagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Carrowreagh electoral division: 554 people in 189 households; 94% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardnaglug, Carrownure, Dundonnell, Glennanea, Gortanabla, Sraduff

Placenames

Knock 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.