Knockroe

198 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockroe, from 5 m² to 54,362 m² (5.44 ha, 13.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Roscommon County Development Plan 2022-2028, Roscommon · 196 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1Strategic Industrial / Enterprise Zones (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Roscommon County Development Plan 2022-2028, Roscommon · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 9 Dec 2025Conditional

  Permission for the renovation of an existing dwelling to include alterations to elevations and all ancillary site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560582

• 23 Oct 2025Conditional

  Permission for the demolition of an existing dwelling house and outbuildings and replacement with a new single storey community residential dwelling together with alterations to existing site entrance, connection to services and all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2560505

• 3 Feb 2025Conditional

  Permission to (a) widen existing entrance, (b) alteration to front elevation by way of an extension at ground floor level, (c) demolition of existing extension and detached garage and (d) construct a two-storey extension to the rear, retain existing connection to services and all ancillary site work at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2560032

• 1 Jul 2024Conditional

  Permission for the following: 1. To refurbish derelict house to include reconstructing roof, 2. To demolish existing garage and construct replacement domestic garage, 3. To widen existing entrance with new wing wall and pier and carry out all ancillary site development works and all ancillary site development works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2460301

• 27 Apr 2023N/a

  PART 8 - Construction of junction tightening, controlled pedestrian crossings, modifications of road surfacings, road markings, parking and school entrance at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 23158

• 9 Jun 2021Conditional

  permission to: (1) demolish existing extension and (2) construct extension to existing dwelling house along with associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21320

• 24 May 2021N/a

  permission sought to construct extension to existing dwelling house along with associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 21270

• 23 Jan 2020Conditional

  for the proposed demolition of existing single storey extension and storage sheds to the rear of existing two storey semi-detached type dwelling house together with the proposed construction of a two storey extension to the rear of the existing two storey semi-detached type dwelling house and all ancillary site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2025

• 6 Nov 2019N/a

  for the proposed construction of an extension to the rear of existing two storey type dwelling house together with the proposed demolition of existing storage sheds & all ancillary site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 19572

• 30 Oct 2019N/a

  for the proposed construction of an extension to the rear of existing two storey type dwelling house together with the proposed demolition of existing storage sheds & all ancillary site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 19560

• 26 Jul 2017Conditional

  to retain a domestic garage ancillary to dwelling house at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 17332

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 Knockroe.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockroe.

Architectural heritage

• Trinity Church (Kilkeevin), church/chapel, 1815–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached cruciform gable-fronted former Church of Ireland church, built in 1819, with two-bay nave, transepts, vestry to south-east and three-stage castellated entrance tower to west. Now vacant. Pitched reslated roof with cast-iron rainwater goods and ashlar chimneystacks. Ruled-and-lined render to walls with tooled stone string courses and plaques to tower. Blind lancets to west gable with tooled limestone surrounds. Pointed-arched window openings with Y-tracery, diamond-paned glass with tooled stone sills to nave. Traceried tooled stone windows to transepts and chancel with block-and-start surrounds, hood mouldings and tooled sills. Stained glass throughout. Timber battened double door to chamfered pointed-arched opening with hood moulding. Site bounded by squared coursed wall with ashlar gate piers and wrought-iron gates.

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

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1113 (ZIP).

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.

• Knockroe, Castlerea36 sales

Name

Knockroe · An Cnoc Rua

Area

281,918 m² (28.19 ha, 69.66 acres)

Civil parish

Kilkeevin, and its townlands

Barony

Castlereagh

Electoral division

Castlereagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castlereagh electoral division: 3,268 people in 1,240 households; 64% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castlereagh, Demesne, Longford

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.