Knockbrack

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockbrack, from 84 m² to 189,949 m² (18.99 ha, 46.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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 Knockbrack 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.

• 29 May 2026Conditional

  the construction of a fully serviced single storey residential dwelling, a detached domestic garage and all other associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 2660166

• 24 Oct 2025Refused

  the construction of a fully serviced single storey residential dwelling, a detached domestic garage, alterations to an existing entrance and all other associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2560327

• 21 Oct 2025N/a

  the construction of a fully serviced single storey residential dwelling, a detached domestic garage, alterations to an existing entrance and all other associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2560320

• 1 Mar 2021Conditional

  Construction of a two storey dwelling, detached garage, wastewater treatment system, bored well, new splayed entrance and all associated site development works

  Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 2167

• 29 Nov 2018N/a

  for the construction of a single storey extension to the existing manufacturing facility and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 18465

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 Knockbrack.

Recorded monuments

• CW017-028 Cairn - unclassified
  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 Marked on 1908 'OS 25-inch' map (max. diam. c. 25m). Cairn of small granite boulders situated on sloping ground (H at NE 0.5m; at SW 1m). Flat-topped (possibly truncated, summit diam. c. 10m; base diam. c. 14m). Monument has been cut back recently at N and NE. Field stones dumped on site.

• CW017-029 Rock art
  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: 9 August 2010 Granite boulder (decorated surface, 0.80m x 0.88m). Surface prepared before decoration, with bevel around edge of stone. Decoration consists of eleven cupmarks, and eleven grooved lines, radiating from larger of two cup and circle symbols. Fairly worn surface.

• CW017-061 Rock art
  Description

  Within a disturbed section of a field fence on a relatively steep S facing slope with good views. A cup mark (diam. 5cm; D 1.5cm) surrounded by a faint ring (outer diam. 13cm) placed near one corner of a roughly triangular shaped granite boulder (0.66m x 0.7m). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 14 September 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knockbrack.

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

Name

Knockbrack · An Cnoc Breac

Area

1,535,157 m² (153.52 ha, 379.35 acres)

Civil parish

Myshall, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

Shangarry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Shangarry electoral division: 568 people in 187 households; 93% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aclare, Ballinacrea, Ballykeenan, Coolnasheegan, Knockbarragh, Moneygrogh, Ullard Beg, Ullard More

Placenames

Knockbrack 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.