Knockglass

228 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockglass, from 62 m² to 110,280 m² (11.03 ha, 27.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 69 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 Knockglass 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.

• 27 Aug 2025Conditional

  Permission to construct 4 No. 3-Bed Town Houses, together with all boundary treatments, road services, pre-treatment system and all ancillary site development works and connection to all public services at

  Permission, 4 homes · Roscommon County Council, 2560414

• 14 Nov 2023Refused

  Outline permission for to construct 11 no. houses. The development shall consist of 7 no. detached and 4 no. semi-detached dwellings with ancillary works at

  Outline permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2360216

• 26 Oct 2023N/a

  Outline permission to construct 11 No. houses. The development shall consist of 7 No. detached and 4 No. semi-detached dwellings at

  Outline permission · Roscommon County Council, 2360188

• 9 Feb 2023N/a

  Outline Permission to remove existing shed and mobile home and construct 10 no. detached houses at

  Outline permission · Roscommon County Council, 2333

• 6 Jul 2020N/a

  to remove existing shed and mobile home and construct 3 no. detached houses at

  Outline permission, 3 homes · Roscommon County Council, 20253

• 11 Jun 2020N/a

  to remove existing shed and mobile home and construct 3 no. detached houses at

  Outline permission · Roscommon County Council, 20207

• 20 Jan 2020Conditional

  for erection of farm machinery/agricultural store, form new access onto public road, associated site development works and services at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2016

• 18 Dec 2019N/a

  for erection of farm machinery/agricultural store, on my land, associated site development works and services at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 19655

• 13 Dec 2019Conditional

  to widen existing forestry access entrance and all associated site works to existing forestry lands at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 19646

• 20 Sept 2019Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house and domestic garage, together with all ancillary site works and services at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 19484

• 28 Aug 2017Conditional

  The development will consist of the construction of a partially walled grotto, to contain 2 No. statues, along with lighting and all associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 17363

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Natural Heritage Area: Bella Bridge Bog NHA 000591

Recorded monuments

• RO015-016 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a trig. station described in gothic lettering as 'Caraun', and situated on a low E-W ridge. Subcircular grass-covered and rounded mound (dims 7.5m N-S; 6.5m E-W; H 1.05m at W to 1.65m at N). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

• Saint Attracta's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1900–1905 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached cruciform Roman Catholic church, built c.1903, with three-bay nave and sacristy to rear. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and limestone bellcote over entrance bay. Cast-iron rainwater goods supported by a limestone corbelled eaves course. Rendered walls with limestone plinth course and rendered angle buttresses with limestone dressings and decorative limestone skew-corbels. Paired lancet window openings with painted brick surrounds, limestone sills and stained glass windows to nave. Three stepped lancets to transept and east end walls. Circular opening with geometric tracery and curved triangular openings with trefoil light. Pointed-arched door opening with limestone surround, hood moulding and timber double doors flanked by lancet stained glass windows. Single-cell nave with columns giving access to transepts. Open timber truss roof. Timber gallery above entrance to west.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Knockglass.

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.

• Knockglass, Ballinameen7 sales

Name

Knockglass · An Cnoc Glas

Area

4,013,419 m² (401.34 ha, 991.74 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcolagh, and its townlands

Barony

Frenchpark

Electoral division

Kilcolagh, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Acres, Ardagh, Ardcolagh, Ballinvoher, Bella, Camlin, Carkfree, Cornaveagh, Dooneen, Drishaghaun, Finisclin

Placenames

Knockglass 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.