Knockatooreen

43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockatooreen, from 36 m² to 229,945 m² (22.99 ha, 56.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Knockatooreen 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 Mar 2025N/a

  a mobile coffee vending parking stand, including: (1) vehicular and pedestrian entrance; (2) customer parking; (3) covered dining areas in the existing vernacular farmyard buildings and all associated site works to serve the development. PERMISSION for (1) customer toilet facilities including a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area to serve the development; (2) signage and all associated site works to facilitate the development. The new wastewater treatment system and percolation area will also cater for existing residential cottage located on the site

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2560173

• 25 Apr 2022Conditional

  (1) the construction of a new 10 span A-roof shed complete with milking parlour, dairy, store, electrical room, office, cubicles, effluent tank and meal bin, collecting area and holding pins. (2) Retention permission for as built 7 span lean-too shed and effluent tank. (3) Permission to demolish existing shed and build a new 7 span lean-too shed and extend the existing effluent tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 22311

• 25 Sept 2020Conditional

  construction of cubicle shed with underground effluent tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 201100

• 29 May 2018Conditional

  the development of cattle house with slatted tanks and all associated works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18600671

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 Knockatooreen.

Recorded monuments

• TS049-009 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Just below summit of hill on NE facing slope in Slieveardagh hills with panoramic views from w through N to E. Impressive well preserved ring-barrow consisting of a circular mound (base diam. 15m N-S; 14m E-W; top diam. 11.5m N-S; 9m E-W; H 0.6m; ext. diam. 41m N-S) enclosed by a wide flat-bottomed inner fosse (base Wth 7m ; top Wth 8m; ext. D 1-1.4m) and wide flat-topped external bank (base Wth 6m; top Wth 1.7m ext. H 0.4-0.2m). The interior is sunken below the external ground surface giving the interior an amphitheatre like experience with the higher enclosing external bank particularly on the upslope, on the downslope the mound is level with the external ground. Several grass-covered stones protruding for the surface of the top of the mound may be the remains of cist graves. No other features visible. Located on grassland with only a few thorn bushes growing on top of bank at W and a lone thorn bush on the mound other wise the monument is very well preserved. Agricultural land being used as pasture with cattle grazing in the adjoining fields. Enclosing bank intersected by a field boundary at NE as depicted on latest ed. OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knockatooreen, about 1 in 10 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 Knockatooreen.

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

Name

Knockatooreen · Cnoc an Tuairín

Area

1,724,859 m² (172.49 ha, 426.22 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcooly, and its townlands

Barony

Slievardagh

Electoral division

Kilcooly, the unit of the census

Census 2022

314 people lived in 105 households in the Kilcooly electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bawnlea, Gorteenrainee, Grangecastle, Grangehill, Kilbraugh, Springfield

Placenames

Knockatooreen 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.