Knocknashee Common

0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknashee Common. The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Knocknashee Common 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 Knocknashee Common 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 Knocknashee Common.

Recorded monuments

• SL032-013001 Hillfort
  Description

  On the table-top plateau of Knocknashee hill, commanding extensive views in all directions to the Ox Mountains and South Sligo. The generally level plateau is comprised of a series of natural terraces of limestone bedrock declining gradually from the centre of the plateau outwards to the abrupt break of slope that marks the outer edge. Described by Condit, Gibbons and Timoney (1991, 59-62) as a roughly oval-shaped area (c. 700m NNE-SSW; c. 350m E-W), comprising c. 21.5 hectares and enclosed by two earth-and-stone banks. The inner bank (Wth 3.8m; max. H 1.5m) is constructed from a series of quarry hollows contiguous to the inner bank face and forming an inner fosse in parts and is topped by a later field boundary wall along the E side (ibid.). A second rampart was described along the E and S arcs, parallel to the inner bank and utilising a natural terrace and turning sharply downhill at NE (ibid.). Along the sheltered E half of the interior are about 30 hut sites, possibly a Neolithic settlement (SL032-013004-). Two possible passage tombs (SL032-013002-; SL032-013003-) c. 120m apart are located at the N end of the plateau. A D-shaped enclosure (SL032-013005-) abuts the inner bank at E. Further evidence of settlement might be provided by the presence of 'scoops and hollows situated at the south and south-west in the hillfort' (ibid., 61). 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

• SL032-013002 Megalithic tomb - passage tomb
  Description

  Close to the N end of flat-topped Knocknashee Mountain, commanding an extensive outlook and within a hillfort (SL032-013001-). This is a circular, flat-topped cairn (diam. 28m; H c. 2.5m) at or about the centre of which a roofed chamber (L 1.7m N-S; Wth 1.15m E-W; H 1.1m) is exposed. Single stones form the sides and ends of the chamber, a single slab serves as a floorstone and a single large slab roofs the structure. A piece has been broken from the top of the N end-stone and the resultant gap now permits access to the chamber. A rough wall has been built along the eastern side of the flat top of the cairn. This possible passage tomb lies at the N limit of the possible Neolithic settlement (SL032-013004-). Another possible passage tomb (SL032-013003-) lies c. 120m to NE. 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). Attached image: SL032-013002_01.JPG Viewed from NW Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL032-013003 Megalithic tomb - passage tomb
  Description

  Close to the N end of flat-topped Knocknashee Mountain and c. 120m NE of and slightly downslope from another possible passage tomb (SL032-013002-) and within a hillfort (SL032-013001-). This is a circular cairn (diam. 28m; H 1m) towards the NW edge of the flat top of which a heap of stones has been formed into a cairn-like pile (diam. 15m; H 1.5m). This possible passage tomb lies at the N limit of the possible Neolithic settlement (SL032-013004-). 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). Attached image: SL032-013003_01.JPG Viewed from SSE Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL032-013004 Enclosure
  Description

  On the plateau-like top of Knocknashee Hill and widely distributed over the grass and heather-covered terraces in the E half of a hillfort (SL032-013001-). A complex of c. 30 huts in clusters of two, three and occasionally more, separated by distances of 2-15m; one instance of two conjoined huts was noted. The huts are often in N-S rows following the contours of the natural terracing. Although the degree of preservation of the huts varies, they are remarkably uniform in size and form. A typical hut consists of a flat circular area (diam. 8-11m) defined by a stony wall (Wth 1.6m; H 0.3-0.5m). Most are entirely sod-covered but where the enclosing wall is exposed it appears to be composed of a jumble of angular limestone rubble. A number of the huts are surrounded by a fosse (Wth 1.5-2m; D 0.3-0.5m) immediately outside the enclosing wall. However, in most cases, instead of a continuous fosse there are two or three discrete depressions outside the wall. A clearly defined entrance gap is not always evident but where entrances were identified they usually occurred in the SE quadrant. Condit, Gibbons and Timoney (1991, 61) noted that further evidence for individual settlement sites might be provided by the presence of scoops and hollows situated at the S and SW within the hillfort. The complex is clearly visible in aerial photographs taken in 1968 (CUCAP, AVJ 1, 4, 5; CUCAP, AVI 95-6). Two possible passage tombs (SL032-013002-; SL032-013003-), c. 120m apart, lie at the N limit of the huts and within the hillfort. A similar complex of huts (SL040-108----) at Mullaghfarna, c. 22km to the SE, has been tentatively dated to the Neolithic period. (Norman and St Joseph 1969, 24-5) 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). Attached images: SL032-013004_01.JPG SL032-013004_02.JPG SL032-013004_03.JPG SL032-013004_04.JPG Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL032-013005 Enclosure
  Description

  On the plateau-like top of Knocknashee hill, at a break of slope on the E side and abutting the inner defences of the hillfort (SL032-013001-) at E. A D-shaped area (dims. 29m E-W) defined by a ruinous stone wall that survives as a sod-covered stony rise (Wth 2m). A roughly constructed field boundary wall (Wth 0.6m) borders the straight side (L 64.5m N-S) at E. A jumble of stones barely protruding from the base of the field boundary wall is the remains of the hillfort wall. The interior slopes down gently to E and encompasses an area of uneven stony ground. Just inside the enclosing wall at WNW is a low circular sod-covered platform (10.4m N-S; 9m E-W; H 0.3m) with stones protruding randomly from the sod around the perimeter. Adjacent at N is a sod-covered stony area, possibly an expanse of limestone bedrock. A ruined sod-covered wall (Wth 1-1.2m; H 0.3m) partitions off the S third of the interior. Within this area abutting the enclosure wall at SW is a roughly circular stony rise (c. 6m NW-SE; 5m NE-SW; H 0.3m). 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 Knocknashee Common.

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 Knocknashee Common, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knocknashee Common.

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

Name

Knocknashee Common · Cnoc na Sí

Area

195,040 m² (19.5 ha, 48.2 acres)

Civil parish

Achonry, and its townlands

Barony

Leyny

Electoral division

Cartron, the unit of the census

Census 2022

157 people lived in 64 households in the Cartron electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Belra, Carrowmore, Carrownaworan, Cashel North, Gortnadrass, Lavagh

Placenames

Knocknashee Common 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.