# Knockmurry, Co. Roscommon: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilkeevin, barony of Castlereagh, Co. Roscommon. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 666,826 m² (66.68 ha, 164.78 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 5,427 m² (0.54 ha, 1.34 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilkeevin, https://everytownland.com/roscommon/parish/kilkeevin.md - Barony: Castlereagh - Electoral division: Castlereagh, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 3,268 people lived in 1,240 households in the Castlereagh electoral division. 64% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Roscommon, https://everytownland.com/roscommon.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/43509 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 191481 - Centre: latitude 53.756476, longitude -8.447692 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockmurry, from 377 m² to 128,073 m² (12.81 ha, 31.65 acres); 30 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 703365: 128,073 m² (12.81 ha, 31.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/703365.md - Parcel 5259952: 112,387 m² (11.24 ha, 27.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5259952.md - Parcel 703367: 84,217 m² (8.42 ha, 20.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/703367.md - Parcel 5259970: 69,973 m² (7 ha, 17.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5259970.md - Parcel 667308: 57,312 m² (5.73 ha, 14.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/667308.md - Parcel 703361: 56,978 m² (5.7 ha, 14.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/703361.md - Parcel 5255356: 48,534 m² (4.85 ha, 11.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5255356.md - Parcel 5122908: 24,851 m² (2.49 ha, 6.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5122908.md - Parcel 660502: 23,790 m² (2.38 ha, 5.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/660502.md - Parcel 679685: 23,700 m² (2.37 ha, 5.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/679685.md - Parcel 662851: 6,101 m² (0.61 ha, 1.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/662851.md - Parcel 694198: 5,427 m² (0.54 ha, 1.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/694198.md - Parcel 712523: 4,159 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/712523.md - Parcel 651682: 4,070 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/651682.md - Parcel 679123: 3,864 m² (0.39 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/679123.md - Parcel 2498498: 3,066 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2498498.md - Parcel 645026: 2,338 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/645026.md - Parcel 644137: 2,075 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/644137.md - Parcel 719664: 2,022 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/719664.md - Parcel 705384: 1,716 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/705384.md - Parcel 703366: 1,618 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/703366.md - Parcel 693304: 412 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/693304.md - Parcel 662655: 377 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/662655.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Knockmurry in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 14 Oct 2025, Roscommon County Council 2560487: Conditional. Permission. Permission for a ten year planning permission is being sought for the proposed development which will consist of the following elements: the installation and operation of 1 no. battery energy storage system compound containing battery energy storage containers, 1 no. electrical substation and compound, connected to the national grid system via c. 50m of underground cable to the ESB Castlerea 38kV substation, electrical transformers and inverter units, underground cabling and ducting, boundary fencing, security entrance gates, CCTV, internal access road, associated ancillary site development, landscaping and reinstatement works. The operational lifespan of the development will be 35 years. The site of the proposed development has a total area of 0.644 hectares at. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560487/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knockmurry. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - RO027-004: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO027-004----. Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and as a D-shaped feature (dims c. 30m x c. 30m) on the 1927 ed. Situated in pasture on the crest of a NW-SE ridge, it is not visible at ground level in pasture. Test excavations (99E0190) immediately to the E failed to recover any evidence of an antiquity (Walsh 2000e). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockmurry. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Knockmurry, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1141, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1141.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/knockmurry.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/knockmurry.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/knockmurry.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Knockmurry with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon: https://everytownland.com/roscommon.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Carrowmore: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/carrowmore-190420.md - Lisliddy: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/lisliddy.md - Longford: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/longford.md - Rampark: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/rampark.md - Rathleg: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/rathleg.md - Southpark Demesne: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/southpark-demesne.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/knockmurry - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/roscommon/knockmurry