Knockatoor

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockatoor, from 1,297 m² to 190,750 m² (19.08 ha, 47.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Knockatoor 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.

• 5 Apr 2019Conditional

  the development of straw bedded cattle house, cattle house with slatted tank and cattle crush, silo base and apron, manure pit and soil water tank, meal bin and all associated works on our land

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19600330

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 Knockatoor.

Recorded monuments

• TS060-072001 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  In improved pasture, on elevated area with good views. Flat-topped, circular mound (dims. 4.5m WNW-ESE; 4.5m NNE-SSW) of earth and stone is defined by scarp (Wth 2.85m; H 0.75m) which is levelled out (Wth 3.4m; H 0.45m) at SSW. Interior is covered in tall grasses (H 0.5-0.7m). Monument fenced off just above base and scarp is denuded by cattle SSW-NNE below this. Cross (TS060-072002-) and holy well (TS060-072003-) adjacent to WNW. According to OS Namebooks (O'Donovan 1840), this is the 'site of a well, [and] a small cairn with a cross upon it'. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 09 July 2014

• TS060-072002 Cross
  Description

  In improved pasture, lying prostrate (long axis NE-SW) adjacent to WNW of cairn (TS060-072001-). Sub-rectangular piece of cut sandstone conglomerate (L 1.04m; Wth 0.2-0.28m; T 0.2-0.22m) with narrow projection at one end. Worn punch-dressed effect on surface may be natural. Large irregular sandstone to SW. Site of holy well (TS060-072003-) adjacent to NW. According to OS Namebooks (O'Donovan 1840), this is the 'site of a well, [and] a small cairn with a cross upon it'. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 09 July 2014

• TS060-072003 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In improved pasture, to immediate NW of cairn (TS060-072001-). No visible surface trace. According to OS Namebooks (O'Donovan 1840), this is the 'site of a well, [and] a small cairn with a cross upon it'. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 09 July 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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 low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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 Knockatoor with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Knockatoor · Cnoc an Tuair

Area

275,263 m² (27.53 ha, 68.02 acres)

Civil parish

Relickmurry and Athassel, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Golden, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Golden electoral division: 881 people in 314 households; 79% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardobireen, Ballinlina, Castlepark, Moanteen, Springmount

Placenames

Knockatoor 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.