Knockoconor

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockoconor, from 287 m² to 128,211 m² (12.82 ha, 31.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Knockoconor 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.

• 30 Oct 2024Conditional

  1) Construction of a storage building 108m2 and carry out ancillary site works, 2) Construct a new vehicular access to the site and 3) The relocation and construction of existing vehicular access

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2460391

• 10 May 2023Conditional

  development consisting of (a) construct a new spectator stand; (b) install a new walkway within the perimeter our our club grounds; (c) install 16 number 5 to 6 metre high standard lighting columns within the perimeter of our club grounds for walking/running purposes; together with all associated works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2354

• 27 Sept 2017Conditional

  (a) demolition of existing two storey club house (172m2) & existing stand (72m2); (b) construction of proposed new two storey club house (512m2), consisting of 4 no. dressing rooms, multi-purpose room, kitchen, toilets, storage, plant room etc and (c) upgrading of existing septic tank system to proposed new proprietary effluent treatment system, complete with new percolation area, together with signage & all associated siteworks

  Extension of duration · Sligo County Council, 12131

• 27 Sept 2017Conditional

  PP - for development consisting of (a) retain demolition of previous existing dwelling house, (b) retain and complete dweling house, currently constructed to roof level on site, (c) retain and compelte altered vehicular entrance on site, (d) install a new wastewater treatment system on site, together with all ancillary site works and services

  Retention, 2 homes · Sligo County Council, 17367

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 Knockoconor.

Recorded monuments

• SL040-128 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a W-facing slope. A raised circular area (int. diam. 25.5m x 24.7m) defined by a bank (Wth 1.25m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1m) along the E arc and by a scarp elsewhere. A stretch of external fosse (Wth 2.4m; D 0.4m) is evident along the E arc. The interior is uneven. The perimeter is planted with 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

Architectural heritage

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

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

Name

Knockoconor · Cnoc Uí Chonchúir

Area

516,602 m² (51.66 ha, 127.66 acres)

Civil parish

Toomour, and its townlands

Barony

Corran

Electoral division

Toomour, the unit of the census

Census 2022

227 people lived in 95 households in the Toomour electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Binganagh, Cloonagh, Daghloonagh, Fallougher, Murhy, Toomour

Placenames

Knockoconor 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.