Knockbride

59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockbride, from 633 m² to 111,416 m² (11.14 ha, 27.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Knockbride 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.

• 3 Jun 2026N/a

  to retain and complete existing single and two storey replacement extensions to side and rear of existing two storey detached dwelling and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660306

• 19 Nov 2024Conditional

  for the (1) restoration works to existing derelict dwelling (2) construction of an extension to the rear of the property (3) construction of new entrance gates, piers, walls, and laneway. (4) Install a new treatment system and percolation area. (5) Remove structurally unsafe out-buildings, together with all associated site works. The works are located within the curtilage of Recorded Protected Structure RPS NO CV 0551 Cavan County Development Plan

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460572

• 30 Oct 2024N/a

  for (1) restoration works to existing derelict dwelling (2) construction of an extension to the rear of the property (3) construction of new entrance gates, piers, walls, and laneway. (4) Install a new treatment system and percolation area. (5) Remove structurally unsafe out-buildings, together with all associated site works. The works are located within the curtilage of Recorded Protected Structure RPS NO CV 0551 Cavan County Development Plan

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2460544

• 11 Jun 2024Conditional

  to construct single storey extension (20.27 Msq) and make layout and fenestration alterations to Dwelling House, Replace existing septic tank with new effluent treatment system

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460256

• 4 Jun 2024N/a

  to construct single storey extension (20.27 Msq) and make layout and fenestration alterations to Dwelling House, Replace existing septic tank with new effluent treatment system

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2460243

• 17 Nov 2021Conditional

  for development of a glamping site comprising 4 No. glamping pods, ancillary single storey service building, redevelopment of existing traditional stone building to an equipment/bicycle store, internal paths, car parking area, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, new entrance/exit onto public road together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 21701

• 10 Jun 2020Conditional

  for the construction of a multi use barn for the purposes of farm machinery storage and dry animal food store

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 20212

• 7 Jun 2017Conditional

  to construct a bungalow style dwelling, domestic garage, proprietary effluent treatment system including mechanical aeration system and percolation area, new entrance walls and piers and all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 17257

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 Knockbride.

Recorded monuments

• CV023-026001 Church
  Description

  Simple rectangular church (int. dims. 12.3m NW-SE; 6.3m NE-SW) built with large and small split slabs, situated roughly at the centre of an irregularly shaped graveyard. All of the church windows have been blocked up and access is by a lintelled rectangular doorway in the NW wall. Davies (1948, 110-1) noted that the rectangular windows do not look older than the 17th century though tradition says that the E wall is pre-Reformation. The foundation of the N wall, however, cannot have been made for the present church. The walls contain a few punch-dressed stones, and above the NW door are stones from a two-light window with plain chamfer, probably of the 15th or 16th century. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

• CV023-026002 Graveyard
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• CV023-027 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked 'Fort' on OS 1836 and 1876 eds. This site is very badly disturbed. All that survives are the remains of a curving earthen bank running from NNW-N-E defining a slightly raised area. A hole has been quarried on the inside of the bank from N-NE. Otherwise no visible remains at ground level. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

• CV023-054 Bullaun stone
  Description

  Small irregularly shaped boulder (H 0.2m; dims. 0.67m x 0.6m) containing a well-defined, basin-shaped depression (diam. 0.19m; D 0.07m). Tradition that the bullaun was used as a 'font' during Penal times (local information). On the surface of the stone are a number of carvings which presumably date to this period. Situated in a farmyard c. 175m E of Knockbride church (CV023-026----). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

• CV028-029001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 40m) enclosed by an earthen bank identifiable only from NW-N-NE and a shallow fosse discernible only from SW-NW. Bank merges with a low field boundary which encloses site from NE-S-NW. Original entrance not recognisable. Within the internal area is a possible souterrain (CV028-029002-). (CUCAP BGL 77) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

• CV028-029002 Souterrain
  Description

  Situated within the interior of Knockbride rath (CV028-029001-). Likely remains of a souterrain comprise a depression with a rectangular opening, partially lined with dry stone walling at its E end. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

Architectural heritage

• Knockbride Church of Ireland Church, church/chapel, 1820–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Gothic-Revival Church of Ireland church, built 1825, comprising three-bay hall with three-stage tower, shallow chancel, south transept added 1858, double transept added to north side, 1870, with lower eastern vestry. Pitched slate roofs with stone barges, plain and ogee kneelers, cut stone chimneystack on east gable of nave and gables of flanking north aisle. Hipped artificial slate roof to vestry with replacement ridge tiles. Cast-iron rainwater goods, gutters to transepts supported on stone corbels. Belfry tower having stepped battlements, corner turrets capped by gabled pinnacles with acorn finials, string course below parapet stage. Further strings defining stages, corner pilasters to upper stages, pointed arch louvred belfry opening to second stage with hood moulding, square-headed twin-light window with hood moulding to first stage window. Quoins to ground floor having tall entrance with two-centred arch and hood moulding, date shield over in raised square frame. Timber sheeted door with fixed panel over. Walls stripped of render to reveal random coursed limestone rubble over a dressed stone plinth course and raised dressed quoins. Dressed stone to lancet windows surrounds in nave and south transept with hood mouldings and stone sills. Three-light switch-line stone tracery to south transept gable, gables to north aisle having two and three lights respectively with uncusped roundels in the heads. East window of chancel having tall four-centred head with hood moulding, three-light wooden tracery with transoms, cusped heads and daggers to spandrels. Square-headed window and door to eastern vestry with label mouldings under relieving arches. King post with drop finial and side braces to interior, with scissor braces to transept and scissor braces to north aisle over jacked-up rafters. Separate roofs of different design over nave, south transept, and north aisle. Shallow-pointed chancel arch. Pointed arch springing from low level to south transept. Double transept to north separated from nave by arcade of two large arches with freestanding octagonal-profile piers. Gallery over west bay of nave supported on cast-iron columns with foliate scroll brackets in place of capitals. Flat-panelled gallery front dating to 1825. Rectangular pews nave of 1858. Tall-backed bench seats of 1870 to north aisle. Set in older graveyard, with ruin of earlier church and vault to the north-west. Rubble-stone boundary wall to road to south with square-profile piers and metal gates.

• House, 1830–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house, dated 1833, with advanced windbreak porch to rear elevation. Pitched slate roof having clay ridge tiles, brick chimneystacks to gables and centre of ridge, latter having saw-tooth course to cornice, cast-iron gutters on widely-spaced stone eaves corbels carried around south gable. Pitched slate roof to porch with barge and finial. Render stripped from west façade to expose roughly-coursed rubble-stone walling with raised stucco block-and-start quoins. Camber-headed window openings with broad stucco surround having block-and-start and voussoir motifs, square-headed one-over-one sliding sash windows with exposed sash boxes and stone sills. Square-headed doorcase with similar stucco surround and panelled timber glazed door. Irregularly composed rear elevation with roughcast rendered walls, timber sheeted half-door to porch, sliding sash window, and diamond-paned casement window. Irregularly formed date stone at upper level reading 'AD 1833 Jas. McBree' over stylised olive branch with small inscised cross. Upper floor loft door in northern end over service door flanked by windows. Outbuildings to site.

• St Brigid's Roman Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1830–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding three-bay barn-style Roman Catholic church, built 1832, refurbished 1853. Sacristy to north-east, belfry tower and porch attached to south-west nave elevation in 1962. Pitched slate roof, some cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls over render plinth course, with hammer-dressed stone quoins. Stone dressing to lancet windows and pointed arched doorcase in north-west elevation. Single window in south-west gable, pair of lancets in north-east gable. Attached belfry tower of four stages with stucco pilasters below open belfry stage with paired open lancets and hipped roof. Square-headed windows to lower stages. Double-leaf entrance door to belfry porch with stained glass tympanum. Interior having open timber roof with tie-beams, king and queen posts and struts to king posts, infill of timber sheeting. Some stained glass windows. Double-leaf nave doorway of three panels per leaf and slatted timber over door. Post-Vatican II altar and reredos. Gallery across western bay, confessionals ranged underneath, having timber columns with annulus supporting gallery. Recent timber bench seats. Church set within graveyard, bounded by render plinth walls with ironwork railings, having square-profile rendered gabled piers flanking single and double-leaf ironwork gates.

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 10 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; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knockbride.

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

Name

Knockbride · Cnoc Bhríde

Area

1,566,967 m² (156.7 ha, 387.21 acres)

Civil parish

Knockbride, and its townlands

Barony

Clankee

Electoral division

Skeagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Skeagh electoral division: 445 people in 144 households; 93% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corleck, Corraneary, Drumamuck Glebe, Drumeague, Killaliss, Knocknalosset, Lisdonan

Placenames

Knockbride 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.