Knockaun

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockaun, from 3,308 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres) to 134,890 m² (13.49 ha, 33.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Knockaun 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Knockaun in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Knockaun.

Recorded monuments

• SL034-037 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In forestry, on top of a ridge. Indicated only on the 1914 OS 6-inch map as an arc of hachures N-ESE. The remains consist of an arc (C 18m) of earthen bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.1m) NNW-SE with faint traces of an external fosse emphasised by a field boundary curving around the NE arc. The area to SW of the bank is covered with mature trees and crossed by cultivation ridges. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL034-038 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In forestry, near the top of the S-facing slope of a ridge. A raised circular area (26m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 1.3m). Cultivation trenches (on a N-S axis) cut across the interior which is covered with mature trees. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL034-039 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In forestry, on level ground on top of a ridge. A raised oval area (32m E-W; 42m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 1m). An E-W field boundary tops the scarp along the N arc. The line of an external fosse is indicated by a band of rushes (Wth 3m). The interior is cut by cultivation ridges and an E-W field boundary crosses the S half; the area to N of the field boundary is covered with mature trees. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL034-041 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the S side of a ridge top. A slightly raised circular area (diam. 18m) enclosed by remains of an earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.8m), best preserved along the N arc with only faint traces along the E arc. The bank is incorporated into a N-S field boundary along the W arc. A thick band (Wth 2m) of rushes and irises may indicate the line of an external fosse. A possible entrance (Wth 1.5m) is at ESE. The interior is covered with rushes and long grass and slopes gently down to S. The perimeter of the rath is overgrown with gorse and hawthorn bushes. An E-W field boundary lies immediately to N and another on the same axis extends to E from the NE bank. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL034-046 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough poorly drained pasture, at the base of a S-facing slope and on the N bank of a stream. A circular area (23m E-W; 21m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 0.5m) W-E and by a scarp (H 1.4m) E-W. The stream flows along the base of the heavily denuded scarp along the S arc. A band of rushes (Wth 2m) probably indicates the line of a silted-up external fosse W-E. The interior slopes down from N to S. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockaun.

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

At the centre of the townland of Knockaun, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Knockaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Knockaun · An Cnocán

Area

739,456 m² (73.95 ha, 182.72 acres)

Civil parish

Drumcolumb, and its townlands

Barony

Tirerrill

Electoral division

Riverstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

753 people lived in 283 households in the Riverstown electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardagh, Ardvarney, Drumcolumb, Drumdoney, Emlagh

Placenames

Knockaun 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.