Knockevagh
Townland in the civil parish of Rathvilly, barony of Rathvilly, Co. Carlow; in Irish Cnoc na bhFiodh
- Area
- 275.5 ha
- 681 acres
- Land parcels
- 88
- registered freehold, median 4,977 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 16
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
88 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockevagh, from 55 m² to 229,513 m² (22.95 ha, 56.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 38 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Knockevagh 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
4 Mar 2026Conditional
new private dwelling with detached garage, private well, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, entrance & all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 2660062
26 Feb 2026N/a
new private dwelling with detached garage, private well, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2660056
11 Feb 2026N/a
new private dwelling with detached garage, private well, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, entrance & all associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2660033
7 Jan 2026N/a
new private dwelling with detached garage, private well, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, entrance & all associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2660003
2 Dec 2025N/a
new private dwelling with detached garage, private well, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, entrance & all associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2560395
25 Nov 2025N/a
new private dwelling with detached garage, private well, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, entrance & all associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2560386
9 Sept 2024Conditional
Retention permission is sought for the upgrade/ installation of a wastewater treatment system to the rear of the dwelling
Retention, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2460275
24 Mar 2024Conditional
retention of planning permission is sought for home gym/games room and all associated site works
Retention · Carlow County Council, 2460068
20 Feb 2024Conditional
the construction of a new dwelling, domestic garage, wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, new well, new entrance onto public road and associate works
Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 2460035
27 Apr 2023Conditional
the proposed development will consist of telecommunications equipment consisting of antennas, remote radio units (RRU's), dishes, GPS antenna, cable ladder, supporting fixtures attached to the existing 18m monopole previously granted permission (Pl. Ref. 21/326) and ground based equipment cabinet and all associated site development works for high-speed wireless data and broadband services
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2376
21 Apr 2023N/a
the proposed development will consist of telecommunications equipment consisting of antennas, remote radio units (RRU's), dishes, GPS antenna, cable ladder, supporting fixtures attached to the existing 18m monopole previously granted permission (Pl. Ref. 21/326) and ground based equipment cabinet and all associated site development works for high-speed wireless data and broadband services
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2373
9 Dec 2021Conditional
for new private dwelling with detached garage, private well, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 21490
31 Aug 2021Conditional
Permission for development consisting of the installation of a new 18 metres telecommunication support structure carrying antennas, a dish, associated equipment, ground-based equipment cabinets, fencing and all associated site development works for high speed wireless data and broadband services.
Permission · Carlow County Council, 21326
14 Apr 2020Conditional
The development will consist of a) Construction of a covered reservoir totalling 10.6ML of treated water storage in a rectangular shape layout, consisting of two cells of approximately equal volume. b) Widen the existing site entrance to 6m. c) Upgrade and extension of access roadway within the site. d) New kiosk (18msq) to house the control panels. e) Site service and landscaping. f) All associated ancillary site development works above and below ground. All of the above proposed on a site of approx. 1.33ha.
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 20124
29 Jul 2019Conditional
Application for Extension of Duration of Planning Permission PL14/10 - to construct a single storey dwelling house, domestic garage. septic tank and percolation area, bored well, new entrance and all associated works to proposed site
Extension of duration · Carlow County Council, 19297
5 Jul 2019N/a
Extension of Duration of Planning Permission PL14/10
Extension of duration · Carlow County Council, 19266
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knockevagh.
Recorded monuments
- CW004-016 Ringfort - rath
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 Circular area (diam. c. 30m) surrounded by earthen bank. Gap at W may be original, but bank and other possible gaps are masked by dump of large boulders from adjacent fields. No visible surface traces of fosse.
- CW004-018 Earthwork
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 Shown on 1908 'OS 6-inch' map as small enclosure (max. diam. c. 25m). Faint irregular cropmark visible on aerial photograph (GSI S239).
- CW004-019 Earthwork
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 Shown on 1839 'OS 6-inch' map as circular area surrounded by bank (max. diam. c. 45m). No visible surface traces. Location suggests a ringfort.
- CW004-020 Ringfort - rath
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 Shown on 1839 'OS 6-inch' map as circular area (diam. c. 30m) enclosed by bank. Visible as slight dip surrounded by faint traces of bank.
- CW004-063 Enclosure - large enclosure
Description
In tillage. A large oval enclosure (dims. c. 134m NE-SW; max. c. 102m NW-SE tapering to the SW) visible as a cropmark on Google Earth (imagery date 14 July 2018), identified and reported by Faith Bailey and Simon Dowling. Within the enclosure a stone lamp was recovered during ploughing from an area (c. 15m N-S x c. 10m E-W) of very dark soil. There is an enclosure (CW004-019----) c. 250m to the SE. See attached: CW004-063----_01 Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018) Compiled by: Claire Breen and Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 24 February 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockevagh.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- 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 Knockevagh.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Knockevagh, Rathvilly5 sales
The townland
- Name
- Knockevagh · Cnoc na bhFiodh
- Area
- 2,755,323 m² (275.53 ha, 680.86 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathvilly, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rathvilly
- Electoral division
- Rathvilly, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Rathvilly electoral division: 931 people in 338 households; 67% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coole, Knockboy, Knocklishen Beg, Knocklishen More, Knockroe, Patrickswell, Waterstown, Williamstown
- Placenames
- Knockevagh 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.