Knockroe

62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockroe, from 74 m² to 371,258 m² (37.13 ha, 91.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 48 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.

• 2 Sept 2026N/a

  a garage/domestic store and partially completed entrance and PERMISSION to build a new two storey dwelling house, septic tank and to complete the entrance

  Retention, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2660854

• 26 Nov 2025Conditional

  a new dwelling house, alteration of entrance from previously granted planning reference no. 2560354 to include re-routing of truck entrance and to form a new domestic entrance, new wastewater treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2561217

• 24 Apr 2025Conditional

  construction of a new milk truck access road and for construction of a milking parlour, dairy and ancillary rooms, drafting and handling facilities, waiting yard, meal bin, water storage tank and underground slatted soiled water storage tank

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560354

• 22 Apr 2025Conditional

  the development of a single storey extension and alterations to existing school including all associated site works, permission is also sought for demolition of existing shed

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560341

• 28 Feb 2022Conditional

  the following, a) a new Astro-turf playing pitch with perimeter fencing and netting above, floodlights, goals and access gates. b) a new ball wall with netting to the top. c) a new grass playing pitch with goals and ball stop netting and posts d) a new walkway around perimeter of the above proposed development e) a new basketball court, with new proposed landscaping and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2260090

• 11 Feb 2022Conditional

  two storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling as constructed, replace roof of existing dwelling with new roof, new windows/doors, replastering external walls of dwelling and permission to install new septic tank and percolation, new detached garage and to complete the dwelling house and rear extension

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 22110

• 15 Feb 2019Conditional

  (1) a new cow cubicle house, with a slatted standing area and concrete waste/effluent storage facilities and all other associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19600126

• 21 Dec 2018N/a

  (1) a new cow cubicle house, with a slatted standing area and concrete waste/effluent storage facilities (2) the covering of a Soiled Water Standing area and all other associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18601539

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 Knockroe.

Recorded monuments

• TN047-040 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a gentle NE-facing slope in a corn field. A roughly circular area (diam. 33m NW-SE) enclosed by a bank (Wth 1.4m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 1.2m) and fosse (W c. 2.5m; D 0.3m) much obscured by dumped material. No entrance feature visible. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN047-043 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a gentle NW-facing slope in pasture. The site is heavily overgrown with scrub and a number of fallen trees around the bank; it was not possible to take diameters. The present remains consist of a circular area defined by a scarp (H 0.7m), a fosse (Wth 3.4m; D 0.6m), an outer bank (Wth 2.2m; ext. H 0.9m) and an outer fosse (Wth 1.8m; D 0.37m) only visible in the SW quadrant. At N cattle have reduced the scarp creating an entrance (Wth 1.2m). There is a small tree plantation in the area immediately NW of the site. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN047-069 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the SW-facing slope of a gentle undulating rise, in pasture. Indicated on the 1952-3 ed. OS 6-inch map as a large, rougly circular enclosure which appears to have been bivallate. The site is completely levelled with a large silage pit and sheds now occupying the area. The sheds were built c. 10 years ago according to the local farmer. Site not visible at ground level. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN047-108 Enclosure
  Description

  Site identified on aerial photograph taken on 11/8/1996 by Michael Moore (ASIAP 43(22-24)). No surface remains visible, site located on flat land in ploughed field at time of inspection. No archaeological features visible in ploughsoil. Ringfort (TN047-040) located 50m to E. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

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 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

1,469,757 m² (146.98 ha, 363.18 acres)

Civil parish

Moycarky, and its townlands

Barony

Eliogarty

Electoral division

Moycarky, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Moycarky electoral division: 541 people in 189 households; 90% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhudda, Coolkennedy, Drumgower, Graigue, Moycarky, Pouldine, Shanacloon, Shanbally, Smithsfarm, Turtulla

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.