Knocknashammer

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknashammer, from 63 m² to 101,271 m² (10.13 ha, 25.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• G3GB – green belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 12 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P5RV – rural village uses (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1OS – open space (Open space, park)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 27 Mar 2023Conditional

  development consisting of the following: to construct 5 no. 2 storey detached houses and 8 no. 2 storey semi detached houses with new access onto public road and all associated site works including connection to existing public sewer

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2360053

• 18 Oct 2021N/a

  development consisting of the construction of 5 no. two storey detached houses, 2 no. two storey semi-detached houses and 6 no. two and a half storey semi-detached houses with new access onto public road and all associated site works including connection to existing public sewer

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 21417

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 Knocknashammer.

Recorded monuments

• SL044-013 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on top of a drumlin. This possible rath is not visible at ground level. It was indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as an embanked circular area (diam. c. 30m) and on the 1942-3 OS 6-inch map as a D-shaped area (dims. c. 25m NW-SE) defined by a field boundary along the straight NW side (L c. 45m NE-SW) and by a scarp elsewhere. 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

• SL044-014 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In wet pasture, on the E-facing slope of a drumlin. This possible rath is not visible at ground level. It was indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a small embanked circular area (diam. c. 15m). 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 Knocknashammer.

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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1042 (ZIP).

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 Knocknashammer with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Knocknashammer · Cnoc na Seamar

Area

919,858 m² (91.99 ha, 227.3 acres)

Civil parish

Kilfree, and its townlands

Barony

Coolavin

Electoral division

Kilfree, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilfree electoral division: 541 people in 230 households; 69% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Calteraun, Cloonlaheen, Cuilmore, Gortygara, Knocknahoo, Lisbaleely, Rathmadder

Placenames

Knocknashammer 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.