placenames1901 census
59People recorded
12Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- Halloran 9
- Hassett 8
- McMahon 8
- McInerney 6
- Colpoys 5
Knock
An Cnoc
A nineteenth-century gazetteer records the scale of medical provision associated with the small settlement.
Recorded locationKnock52.62993° N · 9.34143° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- An Cnoc · Irish · main form
- Knock · English · main form
Place & story
Medicines for a wider district
The Parliamentary Gazetteer’s 1846 account places Knock’s dispensary within the Kilrush Poor Law Union and gives its service population as 10,706. For 1839–40 it records expenditure of £90 and 4,174 dispensations of medicine. These figures describe the clinic’s wider catchment and its dispensing activity, rather than the population of Knock or a count of individual patients. The same account gave the village’s 1841 population as 115 in twenty-one houses. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Clare
- Barony
- Clonderalaw
- Civil parish
- Kilmurry
- Coordinates
- 52.62993, -9.34143
- Mapped area
- 1.29 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1165811 ↗
People & family history
Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.
1911 census
93People recorded
22Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- Purtill 10
- Halloran 9
- Lynch 9
- Fitzmaurice 7
- Hassett 6
1926 census
88People recorded
26Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
Explore the 1926 records ↗Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Knock. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Knock: Parliamentary Gazetteer extract reproduced in Irish Waterways History · Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland (1846), reproduced by Irish Waterways History
- Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2012-12-21. How this page was prepared.