Knocklishen More

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocklishen More, from 218 m² to 207,366 m² (20.74 ha, 51.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 Knocklishen More 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 Sept 2019Conditional

  the construction of a storey and a half type dwelling, a domestic garage/store, a new entrance, a septic tank and percolation area, bored well and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 19350

• 8 Feb 2017Conditional

  Permission for the following works on an existing house; 1 Alterations to existing openings on the east (side) elevation, 2. New openings on the west (side) elevation, 3. New front porch, 4. New single storey extension to the rear, 5. Associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 1732

• 20 Jan 2017N/a

  Permission for the following works to existing house; 1. Alterations to existing openings on the East (side) elevation,2.New openings on the West (side) elevation,3. New front porch, 4. New single storey extension to the rear, 5. Associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 1712

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781

Recorded monuments

• CW004-047 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 Visible on aerial photograph (GSI S 239) as circular enclosure. Bisected NNE-SSW by field boundary, levelled to W of field boundary. Small portion to E of boundary consists of arc of straight-sided bank (C. 14m), probably stone-faced (H 1m) with small entrance gap (Wth 1m) at E.

• CW004-069 Enclosure
  Description

  In tillage. A circular enclosure (max. diam. c. 26m) visible as a cropmark on Google Earth (imagery date 14 July 2018), identified and reported by Simon Dowling. The enclosure is defined by a fosse (Wth c. 3m). See attached: CW004-069----_01 Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018) CW004-069----_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 Knocklishen More.

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 Knocklishen More.

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

Name

Knocklishen More · Cnoc Lisín Mór

Area

1,896,042 m² (189.6 ha, 468.52 acres)

Civil parish

Rathvilly, and its townlands

Barony

Rathvilly

Electoral division

Tiknock, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tiknock electoral division: 348 people in 115 households; 93% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barnhill, Coolmanagh Lower, Knockevagh, Knocklishen Beg, Nashe's Quarter, Tombeagh, Williamstown

Placenames

Knocklishen More 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.