Knock
Townland in the civil parish of Culdaff, barony of Inishowen East, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 67.8 ha
- 167 acres
- Land parcels
- 32
- registered freehold, median 4,136 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 19
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knock, from 99 m² to 177,147 m² (17.71 ha, 43.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Knock 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 Sept 2025Unconditional
(1) CHANGE OF ORIENTATION AND DESIGN OF DOMESTIC OUTBUILDING TO SINGLE STOREY, ACCOMMODATING A STORE AND HOME OFFICE IN LIEU OF THAT PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE NO. 20/50712, (2) CHANGE OF DESIGN AND RELOCATION OF SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM IN LIEU OF THAT PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE NO. 20/50712 ALONG WITH (3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND LANDSCAPING
Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 2550130
5 Aug 2025Unconditional
(1) CHANGE OF ORIENTATION AND DESIGN OF DOMESTIC OUTBUILDING TO SINGLE STOREY, ACCOMMODATING A STORE AND HOME OFFICE IN LIEU OF THAT PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE NO. 20/50712, (2) CHANGE OF DESIGN AND RELOCATION OF SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM IN LIEU OF THAT PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE NO. 20/50712 ALONG WITH (3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND LANDSCAPING
Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 2550103
5 Aug 2025Unconditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SOUTH SIDE (REAR) OF THE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED DOMESTIC OUTBUILDING (PLANNING REF. NO. 23/50225 REFERS) INCLUDING ALL SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 2550104
17 Apr 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SOUTH SIDE (REAR) OF THE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED DOMESTIC OUTBUILDING (PLANNING REF. NO. 23/50225 REFERS) INCLUDING ALL SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560603
27 Feb 2023Conditional
(1) CHANGE OF ORIENTATION AND DESIGN OF DOMESTIC OUTBUILDING TO SINGLE STOREY, ACCOMMODATING A STORE AND HOME OFFICE IN LIEU OF THAT PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE NO. 20/50712, (2) CHANGE OF DESIGN AND RELOCATION OF SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM IN LIEU OF THAT PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE NO. 20/50712 ALONG WITH (3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND LANDSCAPING
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350225
30 Jan 2023Conditional
RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF FIRST FLOOR BALCONY FEATURE ABOVE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED FLAT HEADED FRONT PORCH TO DWELLING UNDER PLANNING REF NO: 20/50712, TO INCLUDE GLAZED BALUSTRADE AND FIRST FLOOR DOOR ENTRY
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350094
9 May 2022Conditional
ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING REMOVAL OF EXISTING UTILITY ROOM AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250803
31 Jan 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A 2 STOREY SPLIT-LEVEL DWELLING, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250101
25 Nov 2021N/a
ERECTION OF A 2 STOREY SPLIT-LEVEL DWELLING, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152351
8 Nov 2021N/a
ERECTION OF A 2 STOREY SPLIT-LEVEL DWELLING, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152204
1 Apr 2021Refused
ERECTION OF A 2 STOREY SPLIT-LEVEL DWELLING, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150572
1 Apr 2021Conditional
DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND 3 NO. PROPOSED ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEMS TO DWELLINGS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150573
25 Feb 2021N/a
INSTALLATION OF 3 NO. PROPOSED ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEMS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150314
23 Jul 2020Conditional
ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050986
5 Jun 2020Conditional
(1) CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING CARATRA LODGE FROM BAR/RESTRAUNT/B&B TO A SINGLE DWELLING HOUSE (2) DEMOLITION WORKS TO PARTS OF CARATRA LODGE TO INCLUDE FRONT PORCH, PART OF SIDE EXTENSION, REAR PROJECTION/REAR WING (3) CONSTRUCTION OF NEW FRONT PORCH, AND REAR 2 STOREY EXTENSION WITH ALL NECESSARY EXTERNAL/INTERNAL ALTERATIONS AND RENOVATIONS TO THE EXISTING BUILDING (4) CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DETACHED DOMESTIC OUTBUILDING CONSISTING OF STORAGE, 2 NO. HOME OFFICES AND GAMES ROOM (5) INSTALLATION OF NEW ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH SOIL POLISHING FILTER (6) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND LANDSCAPING. AN NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050712
18 Sept 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE TOGETHER WITH INSTALLATION OF AN ONSITE SEPTIC TANK
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951410
5 Sept 2019N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE TOGETHER WITH INSTALLATION OF AN ONSITE SEPTIC TANK
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951360
3 Sept 2018Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING WEANLING AND STORAGE SHEDS AND ERECTION OF A PROPOSED AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851372
13 Aug 2018N/a
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING WEANLING AND STORAGE SHEDS AND ERECTION OF A PROPOSED AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851252
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: North Inishowen Coast SAC 002012
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: North Inishowen Coast 002012
Recorded monuments
- DG005-036 Promontory fort - coastal
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
- Warren Lodge, house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Attached six-bay two-storey house, built c. 1820 with porch to front and single-bay single-storey extension to west gable. Pitched slate roof with clayware ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks with coping and replacement rainwater goods. Smooth rendered walls with plinth course. Square-headed window openings with six-over-six timber sash windows with painted sills. Square-headed door opening with battened timber door and overlight. Various single-storey pitched and lean-to roofed outbuildings with rubble stone walls, some with tooled quoins to rear. Set at side of road attached to two-storey dwelling to the west.
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, 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 Knock.
- 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 Knock with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Knock
- Area
- 677,803 m² (67.78 ha, 167.49 acres)
- Civil parish
- Culdaff, and its townlands
- Barony
- Inishowen East
- Electoral division
- Culdaff, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Culdaff electoral division: 1,027 people in 366 households; 76% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 32% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Culdaff, Culdaff Glebe, Glackadrumman
- Placenames
- Knock 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.