# Knocknacroy, Co. Sligo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Toomour, barony of Corran, Co. Sligo; in Irish Cnocán na Croiche. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 172,167 m² (17.22 ha, 42.54 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,193 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Toomour, https://everytownland.com/sligo/parish/toomour.md - Barony: Corran - Electoral division: Bricklieve, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 213 people lived in 85 households in the Bricklieve electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Sligo, https://everytownland.com/sligo.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/45116 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 200884 - Centre: latitude 54.066849, longitude -8.464757 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknacroy, from 332 m² to 169,082 m² (16.91 ha, 41.78 acres); 7 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 4922200: 169,082 m² (16.91 ha, 41.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4922200.md - Parcel 727896: 3,193 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/727896.md - Parcel 4922198: 332 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4922198.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Knocknacroy 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) 1 application, newest first. - 28 May 2018, Sligo County Council 18207: Conditional. Permission. Development consisting of the construction of a silage pit plus apron, an extension to existing slatted shed to provide additional housing for dairy Cattle, a roofed manure pit and a General purpose shed for calving facilities calf pens etc. including ancillary works (ie ancillary concrete yard enclosures etc. all for agricultural purposes only) in existing farmyard area.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/SligoCC/AppFileRefDetails/18207/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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 Knocknacroy. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - SL039-028: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL039-028----. In pasture, on the N-facing slope of a drumlin. An oval area (int. diam. 26.4m N-S; 20.5m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2.9m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1m), except along the E arc where a scarp (H 1m) exists. The bank is best preserved along the S and W arcs where overgrown with bushes. An external fosse (Wth 6.4m; D 0.4m) is clearly visible along the N arc but is shallow elsewhere. The interior slopes gently down to E. 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 Knocknacroy. ## 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 Knocknacroy, about 1 in 10 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, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1107, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1107.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/knocknacroy.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/sligo/knocknacroy.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/sligo/knocknacroy.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Knocknacroy 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) - Cross: https://everytownland.com/sligo/cross.md - Drumnagranshy: https://everytownland.com/sligo/drumnagranshy.md - Greyfield: https://everytownland.com/sligo/greyfield-200774.md - Knocknawhishoge: https://everytownland.com/sligo/knocknawhishoge.md - Tonaponra: https://everytownland.com/sligo/tonaponra.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. --- 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/knocknacroy - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/sligo/knocknacroy