Tiknock
Townland in the civil parish of Rathvilly, barony of Rathvilly, Co. Carlow; in Irish Tigh an Chnoic
- Area
- 345.7 ha
- 854 acres
- Land parcels
- 110
- registered freehold, median 2,535 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
110 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tiknock, from 23 m² to 255,305 m² (25.53 ha, 63.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Tiknock 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
10 Mar 2026N/a
to remove derelict building & construct; 1) two span lockup & 2) three span cattle shed & associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2660065
5 Mar 2026N/a
to Remove Derelict Building & Construct; 1) Two span lockup & 2) Three span cattle shed & Associated Site Works. Cattle Shed - 7m wide x 14.3m long x 4.1 high, Lockup - 7m wide x 9.6 long x 6.6 high
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2660063
16 Jun 2021Conditional
for the construction of a single storey dwelling, a domestic garage, new entrance, bored well, a packaged wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 21226
24 Feb 2021Conditional
Permission for development consisitng of the construction of a two storey dwelling house, garage, packaged wastewater treatment system, polishing filter, new entrance, landscaping and associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 2160
25 Jun 2020Conditional
for alterations and additions to an existing bungalow consisting of a single storey extension to the side, new windows to the side and rear of the existing bungalow, internal alterations and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 20203
16 Jun 2020N/a
development will consist of alterations and additions to an existing bungalow consisting of a single storey extension to the side, new windows to the side and rear of the existing bungalow, internal alterations and all ancillary site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 20189
10 Oct 2019Conditional
Retention planning permission for as constructed single storey sun-room to the side of the existing house, a front porch and roof-lights
Retention, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 19401
27 Mar 2019N/a
for a single storey extension to the side of house (20 m2) and front porch (3m2)
Retention · Carlow County Council, 19118
13 Apr 2018Refused
To construct a two-storey dwelling house, garage, new site entrance, bored well, proprietary treatment system and associated percolation area, all ancillary site works and services
Permission · Carlow County Council, 18127
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Baggot's Wood 000792
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tiknock.
Architectural heritage
- Catholic Church of the Assumption, church/chapel, 1830–1835 · Regional interest
Description
Detached Catholic church, c. 1832, on a cruciform plan with pointed-arch openings, granite dressings including quoins, belfry and two-storey priest's residence to rear. Renovated and sanctuary reordered, c. 1975. Interior retains transept balconies and flat plaster ceiling.
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 Tiknock.
- 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
No address of the register names Tiknock with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.
The townland
- Name
- Tiknock · Tigh an Chnoic
- Area
- 3,456,617 m² (345.66 ha, 854.15 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, Barraderry West (Co. Wicklow), Killalish Upper (Co. Wicklow), Knocklishen Beg, Portrushen Lower, Portrushen Upper, Tinnaclash, Tombeagh
- Placenames
- Tiknock 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.