Knockroe

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockroe, from 980 m² to 407,267 m² (40.73 ha, 100.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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 Knockroe 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.

• 21 Aug 2024Conditional

  Permission for the construction of a dwelling house and detached garage together with the installation of a wastewater treatment system, percolation area, new site entrance and all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2460394

• 20 Dec 2022Conditional

  Permission for the construction of a dwelling house and detached garage together with the installation of a wastewater treatment system, percolation area, new site entrance and all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22673

• 13 Dec 2022N/a

  Permission for the construction of a dwelling house and detached garage together with the installation of a wastewater treatment system, percolation area, new site entrance and all associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 22657

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

• RO010-079 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map with Knockroe House c. 600m to the E. Situated on a knoll in a low-lying landscape. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 15m) defined by a scarp (H 0.3-0.6m) and planted with deciduous trees. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO010-080 Burial ground
  Description

  Described as a graveyard on the 1837, and as a burial ground on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a slight N-facing slope in a low-lying landscape. Rectangular area (int. dims 41.5m NW-SE; 27.5m NE-SW) defined by a modern masonry wall which contains 19th and 20th century headstones as well as neat rows of uninscribed grave-markers placed about 1.5m apart at the S end. It is still in use. Rath (RO010-081----) is c. 35m to the SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO010-081 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a N-facing slope in a low-lying landscape. Described as a rath (D'Alton 1845, 89), it has been removed by a quarry apart from a D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 29m E-W; 9m N-S) defined by a curving scarp (H 0.4-1m) SE-SW. Burial ground (RO010-080----) is c. 35 to the NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO010-085001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Knockroe was owned by John Crofton in 1586, but this location is traditionally associated with the Plunkett family (OS Name Books). Owen Mac Conor Og of Aghacarra had 'a handsome dwelling house' at Knockroe in 1635 which was probably at this location (Mac Dermot 1996, 359). Situated on a low knoll overlooking the W end of the S shore Canbo Lough (dims c. 1.3m E-W; c. 100-300m N-S) c. 40m distant, which has shrunk into a W and E lake. The knoll has been levelled to a grass-covered platform (dims 21.5m N-S; 20.3m E-W), which could have supported the castle of which there is no visible surface remains. To the NE are grass-covered foundations (Wth 1.1m) of a small rectangular house (RO010-085002-) (int. dims 4.8m E-W; 4m N-S), and to the ESE a short length (1.5m) of a wall foundation remains. Canbo fortified house (RO010-084001-) is c. 1.2km to the ENE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO010-085002 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  At the W end of the S shore of Canbo Lough (dims c. 1.3km E-W; c. 100-300m N-S) that has shrunk into two lakes. Just NE of castle (RO010-085001-) are grass-covered foundations (Wth 1.1m) of a small rectangular building (int. dims 4.8m E-W; 4m N-S), and to the ESE a short length (1.5m) of a wall foundation remains. Canbo fortified house (RO010-084001-) is c. 1.2km to the ENE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO010-087001 Standing stone
  Description

  On a S-facing slope. A standing stone (dims. c. 0.6m x c. 0.3m; H c. 0.9m) was dislodged from a mound (RO010-087002-) in 1967 when bones were reputedly found (NMI file). There is no visible surface evidence of the standing stone or mound in a pasture field. Rath (RO010-088----) is c. 60m to the E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO010-087002 Barrow - mound barrow
  Description

  On a S-facing slope. A standing stone (RO010-087001-) was dislodged from a mound in 1967 when bones were reputedly found (NMI file). There is no visible surface evidence of the standing stone or mound in a pasture field. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO010-088 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Towards the top of the S-facing slope of an E-W drumlin ridge. Circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 34m) defined by three largely overgrown banks and two fosses. The inner bank (Wth 4.7-5m; int. H 0.3m at SE to 1.2m at NE; ext. H 0.8m at SE to 1.55m at N) W-N-SE is separated by a fosse (Wth of top 5.2-6.7m; Wth of base 4m) from a second bank (Wth 5.5m; int. H 0.75m at SE to 1.45m at N; ext. H 1.4-1.5m) S-N-SE. There is a second fosse (Wth of top 4.7-5m; Wth of base 3.3m) S-N-SE, but a third outer bank (Wth 3.7m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.5m) only survives SSW-W (max. ext. diam. c. 60m). There is no identifiable original entrance, and a NW-SE field bank overlies the monument towards the perimeter at W. Standing stone (RO010-087001-) is c. 60m to the W and rath (RO010-091----) is c. 200m to the SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO010-089 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a level landscape with a small W-E stream or drain curving around the monument W-S-E c. 50-100m distant. This is a subcircular grass-covered area (dims 33m N-S; 28.4m E-W) defined by a gapped earthen bank (Wth 2.3m at E to 4.6m at S; int. H 0.3-0.55m; ext. H 1.1m at E to 1.4m at S) NW-E-SW reduced to a scarp (H 1.6m) elsewhere, and an outer fosse (Wth 2.5-3m; D 0.2-0.5m) SE-W-NNE. There is no recognizable original entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO010-091 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low terrace in a low-lying landscape with a small W-E stream or drain c. 40m to the N. Circular grass and rush-covered area (diam. 33m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 5-6m; int. H 0.3m at S to 0.8m at N; ext. H 2m) N-E-SW, which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.5-1.75m) elsewhere. This is separated by a fosse (Wth of top 5.4-6.3m; Wth of base 2.8m at NE to 3.65m at W) SSE-W-E from an outer bank (Wth 4.8-5m; int. H 0.8-1.45m; ext. H 1.5m) SSE-W-NE, and a second outer fosse (Wth of base 2.5m; D 0.2-0.5m) survives SW-NW. There is no identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO010-088----) is c. 200m to the NW and hut-site (RO010-092----) is c. 110m to the SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO010-092 Hut site
  Description

  Marked similarly on the 1837 and 1914 eds. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a narrow terrace overlooking a small W-E stream immediately to the S. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 6.8m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 1.7m at W to 3.2m at N; int. H 0.2-0.4m; ext. H 0.55-0.8m) with an entrance (Wth 1m) at E. Rath (RO010-091----) is c. 110m to the NW. 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 Knockroe.

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, 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 Knockroe.

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

Name

Knockroe

Area

2,159,109 m² (215.91 ha, 533.53 acres)

Civil parish

Killummod, and its townlands

Barony

Boyle

Electoral division

Killummod, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killummod electoral division: 129 people in 54 households; 88% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinvilla, Canbo, Carrowmore, Cartron, Finnor, Killappoge, Lecarrow, Lisdaly

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.