Knockroe

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockroe, from 3,611 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres) to 628,116 m² (62.81 ha, 155.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Knockroe 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 Knockroe 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

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Knockroe Fox Covert 000964

Recorded monuments

• TS060-079 Enclosure
  Description

  In improved, undulating pasture, on a hillock. Oval area (dims. 30m N-S; c. 22m E-W) defined by scant remains of scarp (Wth 0.75-2m; H 0.17-0.2m) SE-NE. Possible entrance (Wth c. 4m) at W, where scarp is absent. Fosse (overall Wth 2.25-4.8m; basal Wth 0.7-2m; D 0.03-0.15m) is traceable SE-SW and NW-NE, where it is highlighted by differential growth. Field boundary (long axis generally N-S) depicted on latest edition OS 6-inch map truncating E-arc, has been removed. Interior is slightly uneven. Natural, linear scarp is c. 2.5m to W and a second scarp (Wth 1.5m; H 0.2m) is c. 8.5m to N. According to Cahill (1982, Vol. 2) this enclosure was levelled but was defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS060-080 Moated site
  Description

  In improved, undulating pasture, on a N-facing slope. No visible surface trace. Depicted on latest edition OS 6-inch map as a sub-rectangular enclosure (dims. c. 50m NE-SW; c. 40m NW-SE) abutting road to S. 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 Knockroe.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Knockroe · An Cnoc Rua

Area

644,257 m² (64.43 ha, 159.2 acres)

Civil parish

Relickmurry and Athassel, and its townlands

Barony

Middlethird

Electoral division

Cashel Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cashel Rural electoral division: 3,083 people in 1,039 households; 62% of households own their home; 56% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinamona, Castlelake, Farranamanagh, Knockroe

Placenames

Knockroe 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.