Knockroe

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockroe, from 120 m² to 164,298 m² (16.43 ha, 40.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 36 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 Knockroe 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.

• 9 Oct 2025Refused

  new private dwelling with detached garage, site entrance, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2560306

• 27 Sept 2021Conditional

  Permission to construct a single storey extension to existing single storey garage and connect existing garage to adjacent dwelling house (family home). Planning permission is sought for the change of use of existing garage to domestic use, creating ancillary accommodation, for a one-bedroom independent living facility, connection to existing services, use of existing entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 21364

• 29 Mar 2021Conditional

  Permission to construct a proposed new vehicular entrance to facilitate the construction of a proposed new dwelling granted under Pl.18/431 (not yet constructed). Planning permission is also sought to alter previously granted site boundary in order to facilitate new entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 21105

• 7 Nov 2018Conditional

  to construct a single storey dwelling, waste water treatment system, bored well, shared use of existing entrance (entrance to family home), sub-division of existing site and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 18431

• 1 Nov 2018N/a

  to construct a single storey dwelling, waste water treatment system, bored well, shared use of existing entrance (entrance to family home), sub-division of existing site and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 18422

• 23 Feb 2017Refused

  Permission for the construction of telecommunications infrastructure comprising of; a 24 metre multi-operator monopole with antenna and dishes attached, associated equipment ,cabin and cabinets, fencing and access track

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 1748

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 Knockroe.

Recorded monuments

• CW004-014 Castle - motte and bailey
  Description

  National Monument No. 603. Modified, steep-sided mound (present H 4.5-5m, base diam. 23.7m, summit diam. 9.5m) on summit of broad flat-topped hill in commanding position. Summit of motte has been lowered and sides cut back 1m above base from N-E-SE to form slight platform. A possible bailey, visible as a cropmark on Google Earth (imagery date 14 July 2018) has been identified by Simon Dowling. This cropmark of a fosse (Wth c. 1.5m)forms a roughly semi-circular area S-SW-W of the motte. It is visible c. 75m to the W, c. 85m to the SW and c. 57m S of the motte. See attached: CW004-014----_01 Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018) CW004-014----_01 Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018) with bailey highlighted Compiled by: Anna Brindley, Annaba Kilfeather and Jean Farrelly Date of upload/revision: 25 February 2020 The above 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.

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Knockroe.

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

Name

Knockroe · An Cnoc Rua

Area

459,041 m² (45.9 ha, 113.43 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, Knockevagh, Moanavoth, Patrickswell, Rathvilly

Placenames

Knockroe 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.