Knocknanool

72 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknanool, from 41 m² to 306,888 m² (30.69 ha, 75.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Knocknanool 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.

• 25 Mar 2025Conditional

  Permission for conversion and change of use of an existing domestic garage/store including alterations to the front and side (east) elevations all to accommodate a one bedroom living unit with an attached garden store for use ancillary to an adjacent community dwelling house, permission is also sought for the installation of a new wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter to replace the existing septic tank system, together with ancillary site development works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560125

• 18 Mar 2025N/a

  Permission for conversion and change of use of an existing domestic garage/store including alterations to the front and side (east) elevations all to accommodate a one bedroom living unit with an attached garden store for use ancillary to an adjacent community dwelling house, permission is also sought for the installation of a new wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter to replace the existing septic tank system, together with ancillary site development works

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560108

• 3 May 2024Refused

  Permission for conversion and change of use of an existing domestic garage/store, including alterations to the front and side (east) elevations all to accommodate a one bedroom living unit with an attached garden store for use ancillary to an adjacent community dwelling house together with connection to existing on-site services and ancillary site development works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2460203

• 2 May 2024Conditional

  Permission for development consisting of the construction of a new open canopy to the front of existing unit along with all ancillary site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2460198

• 12 Apr 2024N/a

  Permission for Conversion of an existing domestic garage/store to accommodate a one bedroom living unit with attached garden store for use ancillary to an adjacent community dwelling house together with connection to existing on-site services and ancillary site development works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2460165

• 13 Dec 2023Conditional

  Permission for development within an application area of 6 Ha., which will consist of: Use of up to 190,000 tonnes of imported inert natural materials, principally excess soil, stones and/or broken rock to partially fill and restore a disturbed landform created by previous extraction of sand and gravel. The development will be completed within 9 years (which includes a restoration period of up to 2 years); Proposed infrastructure including, site office, staff welfare facilities, weighbridge, wheelwash, hardstand areas, waste inspection and quarantine facility and covered shed; Temporary stockpiling of topsoil and subsoil pending re-use as cover material for final restoration of the site; Restoration of the excavated landform (including placement of cover soils and seeding) to natural habitat and grazing. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report has been submitted with this application, at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2360269

• 16 Feb 2022Conditional

  Permission to construct domestic dwelling house with domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area along with all ancillary site development works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2284

• 28 Jan 2022N/a

  to construct domestic dwelling house with domestic garage along septic tank and percolation area along with all ancillary site development works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2246

• 27 Nov 2019N/a

  permission to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage and single dwelling treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 19616

• 12 Jul 2018Conditional

  Retention for subdivision of an existing storage building together with retention of additional roller shutter and pedestrian doors to the north-east facing elevation, previously granted planning under PD/06/1770, at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 18352

• 27 Nov 2017Conditional

  the development will consist of the construction of a new storage unit along with all ancillary site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 17476

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: Ballynamona Bog and Corkip Lough SAC 002339

Recorded monuments

• RO048-146001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise of an undulating and interrupted E-W esker ridge. Circular overgrown platform (diam. 49m WNW-ESE) defined by an overgrown earth an stone bank (at WNW: Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1m) largely obscured by field spoil, which was originally surrounded by a fosse and outer bank (Gannon 1972) which have now been backfilled. There is no identifiable original entrance, but some old field walls survive in the interior. A rectangular setting of stones (RO048-146002-) N of the centre may indicate its use as a children's burial ground as reported locally (ibid.). Cashel (RO048-147----) is c. 100m to the E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-146002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On a rise of an E-W undulating and interrupted esker ridge. A rectangular setting of stones N of the centre of rath (RO048-146001-) may indicate its use as a children's burial ground as reported locally (Gannon 1972). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-147 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Marked as a circular enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m) on the 1837 and 1915 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated at the E end of an undulating and interrupted E-W esker ridge. Circular overgrown area (diam. c. 25-30m) defined by a collapsed stone wall with facing-stones (original Wth 1.75m). Rath (RO048-146001-) is c. 100m to the W. 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 Knocknanool.

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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Knocknanool

Area

1,517,494 m² (151.75 ha, 374.98 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltoom, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone South

Electoral division

Ballynamona, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballynamona electoral division: 547 people in 178 households; 88% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymullavill, Brideswell, Castlesampson, Corrantotan, Mullagh, Pollalaher, Ratawragh

Placenames

Knocknanool 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.