Knader
Townland in the civil parish of Kilbarron, barony of Tirhugh, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 328.3 ha
- 811 acres
- Land parcels
- 156
- registered freehold, median 3,020 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
156 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knader, from 18 m² to 141,772 m² (14.18 ha, 35.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 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 Knader 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
22 Dec 2025Conditional
DOMESTIC STORAGE BUILDING
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2562316
17 Dec 2025N/a
DOMESTIC STORAGE BUILDING
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2562251
26 Nov 2025Conditional
CHANGES TO DESIGN GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 23/50422 TO INCORPORATE HIPPED ROOF IN LIEU OF FLAT ROOF TO PROPOSED EXTENSION TO DWELLING HOUSE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2562072
30 Oct 2025N/a
CHANGES TO DESIGN GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 23/50422 TO INCORPORATE HIPPED ROOF IN LIEU OF FLAT ROOF TO PROPOSED EXTENSION TO DWELLING HOUSE AND ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561886
25 Jun 2025Refused
(1) ERECTION OF A MACHINERY SHED AND (2) UPGRADE OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM IN EXISTING BUILDERS YARD
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561071
9 May 2025Conditional
DOMESTIC GARAGE AND RAMPED ACCESS TO SAME
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560736
15 Feb 2024Conditional
CHANGES TO DESIGN GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 23/50422 TO INCORPORATE TWO FRONT PROJECTIONS TO THE FRONT ELEVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460159
23 Jun 2023Conditional
(1) A 38KV UNDERGROUND CABLE GRID CONNECTION APPROXIMATELY 9KM IN LENGTH FROM THE CONSENTED DERRYKILLEW COMMUNITY WIND FARM (AN BORD PLEANÁLA REF. NO. 307520, DONEGAL COUNTY COUNCIL REF. NO. 19/51750) TO LANDS AT TOWNPARKS, NORTH OF THE EXISTING CATHALEEN'S FALL 110KV SUBSTATION IN BALLYSHANNON, (2) A PARTIAL SECTION OF A 38KV OVERHEAD LINE GRID CONNECTION CROSSING 130M OVER THE RIVER ERNE AT CATHALEEN'S FALL, BALLYSHANNON, AND (3) THE DERRYKILLEW COMMUNITY WIND FARM 38KV SUBSTATION AND A BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM. AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350892
31 Mar 2023Conditional
EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE AND PERMISSION FOR FACADE ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2350422
12 Feb 2021Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF PART OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND DECOMMISSIONING OF AN EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM (2) RECONSTRUCTION OF PART OF EXISTING HOUSE TO FORM A DOMESTIC GARAGE (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH A NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT AND POLISHING FILTER SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150225
24 May 2020Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND DECOMMISSIONING OF AN EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH A NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT AND POLISHING FILTER SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050526
15 Nov 2018Refused
A TEN-YEAR PLANNING PERMISSION FOR A WIND FARM WITH A 30-YEAR OPERATIONAL LIFE (FROM THE DATE OF COMMISSIONING) CONSISTING OF (A) UP TO 7 NO. WIND TURBINES WITH A TIP HEIGHT OF UP TO 150 METRES AND ALL ASSOCIATED FOUNDATIONS AND HARDSTANDING AREAS, (B) 1 NO. ON-SITE ELECTRICAL SUB-STATION, (C) 1 NO. TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION COMPOUND, (D) 1 NO. ANEMOMETRY MAST WITH A HEIGHT OF UP TO 100 METRES, (E) RECREATIONAL AMENITY TRAIL AND ASSOCIATED SIGNAGE, PARKING AND RECREATIONAL FACILITIES, (F) ALL ASSOCIATED UNDERGROUND ELECTRICAL AND COMMUNICATIONS CABLING CONNECTING THE TURBINES TO THE PROPOSED ON-SITE SUBSTATION, (G) UPGRADING OF EXISTING ACCESS TRACKS AND PROVISION OF ANY NEW SITE ACCESS ROADS REQUIRED INCLUDING NEW SITE ACCESS ONTO THE LOCAL ROAD NETWORK IN THE TOWNLAND OF TULLYHORKY AND ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE, (H) EXCAVATION OF 1 NO. BORROW PIT AND (I) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS (INCLUDING TREE FEELING). AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR) AND A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) HAS BEEN SUBMITTED
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851741
17 Jan 2017Conditional
(1) RETENTION OF EXISTING TIMBER BOARDED FENCE TO THE SIDE OF PROPERTY AND (2) ERECTION OF NEW TIMBER BOARDED FENCE ADJACENT TO (1) ABOVE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750037
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knader.
Recorded monuments
- DG107-108001 Enclosure
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.
- DG107-108002 Burial
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.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knader.
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 high, moderately high, moderately low, moderately low (inferred), 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 Knader.
- 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 Knader with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Knader
- Area
- 3,282,637 m² (328.26 ha, 811.16 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilbarron, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tirhugh
- Electoral division
- Ballyshannon Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballyshannon Rural electoral division: 1,738 people in 624 households; 80% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 16% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyhanna, Behy, Camlin, Camp, Cherrymount, Coolcholly, Doobally, Mullans, Townparks
- Placenames
- Knader 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.