Knockvicar

84 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockvicar, from 1,292 m² to 98,671 m² (9.87 ha, 24.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.

• G3Zone 1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Roscommon County Development Plan 2022-2028, Roscommon · 80 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P6Zone 2 (Other primary sector uses)
  Roscommon County Development Plan 2022-2028, Roscommon · 18 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 28 Sept 2021Conditional

  Retention Permission for a Polydome shelter, a Nissen Hut and a single bedroom garden pod with connection to existing on site services and PERMISSION for the demolition of the entrance porch on the front (south) side of the house and construction of two single storey extensions on the front (south) side of the house, provision of canopies over the external doors on the south east and north sides of the house, alterations to the window and door openings on the north elevation of the house, installation of an external insulation system to the exterior of the house, decommissioning of the existing on site wastewater treatment system and installation of a new proprietary wastewater treatment system with discharge to a packaged tertiary unit and a distribution attenuation layer and ancillary site works at

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21543

• 8 Jun 2021N/a

  RETENTION PERMISSION for a single bedroom garden pod with connection to existing on site services and PERMISSION for the demolition of the entrance porch on the front (south) side of the house and construction of two single storey extensions on the front (south ) side of the house, provision of canopies over the external doors on the south east and north sides of the house, alterations to the window and door openings on the north elevation of the house, installation of an external insulation system to the exterior of the house, decommissioning of the existing on site wastewater treatment system and installation of a new proprietary wastewater treatment system with discharge to a packaged tertiary unit and a distribution attenuation layer and ancillary site works at

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21312

• 31 May 2018N/a

  Planning Permission for the construction of a new forest road entrance and associated site works for the purposes of harvesting a plantation at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 18265

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 Knockvicar.

Recorded monuments

• RO006-010 Earthwork
  Description

  Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on marshy ground on the S shore of a bay at the SE angle of Lough Key, at the point where the Boyle River leaves the lake. Oval grass-covered area (dims 46.5m NW-SE; 26.5m NE-SW) defined by a stony scarp and hedge (H 0.9-1.6m) NE-NW and protruding into the lake NW-NE. There is no visible bank, fosse or entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO006-016 Earthwork
  Description

  Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 25m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as an oval feature (dims c. 40m NW-SE; c. 25m NE-SW) on the 1914 ed. Situated on the S bank of the River Boyle, it is not visible at ground level in pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO006-179 Religious house - Franciscan Third Order Regular
  Description

  There are references to a cell of Dominicans (Nicholls 1972-3, 37) or Franciscans Third Order (Gwynne and Hadcock 1973, 273) at Knockvicar in the late 16th century when it possessed a house and c. 40 acres. D'Alton's description (1845, 114-5) and local tradition locates it on Knockvicar Hill, overlooking a loop of the Boyle River c. 200-270m distant NW-E, but no feature is visible at ground level. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. 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).

• Knockvicar, Boyle5 sales

Name

Knockvicar · Cnoc an Bhiocáire

Area

640,183 m² (64.02 ha, 158.19 acres)

Civil parish

Ardcarn, and its townlands

Barony

Boyle

Electoral division

Rockingham, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Errironagh

Placenames

Knockvicar on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.