Knockbower

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockbower, from 658 m² to 264,041 m² (26.4 ha, 65.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Knockbower 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 Aug 2022Refused

  construction of a dwelling house (198sqm), domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, site entrance and connection to services and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 22254

• 24 Jun 2021Refused

  Permission is sought for the construction of a dwelling house (198 sq m), domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, site entrance and connection to services and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 21238

• 23 Nov 2020Refused

  Construction of a dwelling house (198 sq m), domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, site entrance and connection to services and associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 20418

• 4 Sept 2017Conditional

  Permission to construct a New Single Storey Dwelling, Domestic Garage, Bored Well, Septic Tank & Percolation area, Entrance onto public roadway and all associated works to my proposed site.

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 17264

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 Knockbower.

Recorded monuments

• CW012-033 Barrow - mound barrow
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Earthen mound situated on break of hill slope (H at W 3.5m; H at E 1.2m; summit diam. 8m; base diam. c. 14m). Possible boulder kerb visible at base.

• CW012-217 Enclosure
  Description

  In tillage. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) identified as a cropmark on Google Earth Pro imagery (imagery date 14 July 2018) by Jean-Charles Caillère. See attached photograph: CW012-217----_01 Image ©2019 CNEW/Airbus: Google Earth Pro satellite imagery (14 July 2018) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 10 December 2019

• CW012-222 Enclosure
  Description

  In tillage. A sub-rectangular enclosure (dims. c. 32m NNE-SSW; c. 35m ESE-WNW) defined by a cropmark is visible on Google Earth (imagery date 14 July 2018), identified and reported by Simon Dowling. The E side of the enclosure kinks inward towards the S. See attached: CW012-222----_01 Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018) CW012-222----_02 Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018) with enclosure highlighted Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 25 February 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Knockbower.

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 Knockbower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.

Name

Knockbower · An Cnoc Bodhar

Area

845,343 m² (84.53 ha, 208.89 acres)

Civil parish

Tullowmagimma, and its townlands

Barony

Carlow

Electoral division

Kellistown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kellistown electoral division: 982 people in 355 households; 84% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyloo, Ballytarsna, Graiguealug, Graiguenaspiddoge, Kilballyhue, Linkardstown

Placenames

Knockbower 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.