Knappagh

58 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knappagh, from 60 m² to 116,416 m² (11.64 ha, 28.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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 Knappagh 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.

• 1 Jul 2026N/a

  for 1. The renovation and redevelopment of existing two-storey lofted out-building (former dwelling house) adjacent to Annalee House (A81 VN24) to provide 2 no. self-contained fishermen’s residences and 2. Upgrade of existing septic tank and soakaway currently serving Annalee House to a proprietary wastewater treatment system and purpose built percolation area to serve both Annalee House and the proposed fishermen’s residences together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2660374

• 29 Jan 2018Conditional

  to construct a slatted cubicle shed for the housing of livestock (to adjoin existing slatted cubicle shed), together with associated ancillary site works and using existing site entrance

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 1845

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 Knappagh.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knappagh.

Architectural heritage

• Vicar's Bridge, bridge, 1740–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triple-arch road bridge over Knappagh River, built c.1760. Elliptical arches with roughly cut voussoirs and large capped cutwaters on upriver and downriver elevations rising to height of arch apexes. Piers and breakwaters on high plinth course. Parapet coping of rock-faced blocks over roughly coursed rubble limestone parapet and spandrels. Rendered copings to wing walls. Large buttress responds to wings.

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 20 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 Knappagh.

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 Knappagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Knappagh · An Chnapach

Area

984,084 m² (98.41 ha, 243.17 acres)

Civil parish

Drumgoon, and its townlands

Barony

Clankee

Electoral division

Knappagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Knappagh electoral division: 487 people in 160 households; 92% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corcloghan, Corvackan (Co. Monaghan), Derrygoony (Co. Monaghan), Lisclogher, Lisnaclea, Moyduff

Placenames

Knappagh 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.