# Knockaun, Co. Sligo: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Drumcolumb, barony of Tirerrill, Co. Sligo; in Irish An Cnocán.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 739,456 m² (73.95 ha, 182.72 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 45,635 m² (4.56 ha, 11.28 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Drumcolumb, https://everytownland.com/sligo/parish/drumcolumb.md
- Barony: Tirerrill
- Electoral division: Riverstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Sligo, https://everytownland.com/sligo.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/45458
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 200869
- Centre: latitude 54.12368, longitude -8.355637 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

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); 23 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 764044: 134,890 m² (13.49 ha, 33.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/764044.md
- Parcel 763369: 118,795 m² (11.88 ha, 29.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/763369.md
- Parcel 775261: 77,128 m² (7.71 ha, 19.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/775261.md
- Parcel 735257: 72,049 m² (7.2 ha, 17.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/735257.md
- Parcel 745482: 69,428 m² (6.94 ha, 17.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/745482.md
- Parcel 764042: 59,551 m² (5.96 ha, 14.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/764042.md
- Parcel 740428: 50,259 m² (5.03 ha, 12.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/740428.md
- Parcel 767691: 41,011 m² (4.1 ha, 10.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/767691.md
- Parcel 763281: 39,667 m² (3.97 ha, 9.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/763281.md
- Parcel 734345: 32,026 m² (3.2 ha, 7.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/734345.md
- Parcel 765776: 29,287 m² (2.93 ha, 7.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/765776.md
- Parcel 737803: 7,359 m² (0.74 ha, 1.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/737803.md
- Parcel 735561: 4,073 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/735561.md
- Parcel 774135: 3,308 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/774135.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

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

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knockaun.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- SL034-037: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL034-037----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL034-038----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL034-039----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL034-041----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL034-046----. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1204, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1204.zip (ZIP).
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/sligo/knockaun.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/sligo/knockaun.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/sligo/knockaun.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Knockaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo: https://everytownland.com/sligo.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ardagh: https://everytownland.com/sligo/ardagh.md
- Ardvarney: https://everytownland.com/sligo/ardvarney.md
- Drumcolumb: https://everytownland.com/sligo/drumcolumb.md
- Drumdoney: https://everytownland.com/sligo/drumdoney-200662.md
- Emlagh: https://everytownland.com/sligo/emlagh-200690.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

- Page: https://everytownland.com/sligo/knockaun
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