Knockavaghig
Townland in the civil parish of Rattoo, barony of Clanmaurice, Co. Kerry; in Irish Cnoc an Mhachaidh
- Area
- 71 ha
- 176 acres
- Land parcels
- 32
- registered freehold, median 7,083 m² (0.71 ha, 1.75 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockavaghig, from 231 m² to 168,796 m² (16.88 ha, 41.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 Knockavaghig 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
28 Apr 2025Conditional
Permission to demolish the existing single storey dwelling planning permission to construct a single storey dwelling house and to install an irl 8 tricel novo wastewater treatment pumped unit and sandcell tertiary treatment system and all associated site works at Drommartin, Causeway, Co. Kerry
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560348
19 Mar 2025N/a
Permission to demolish the existing single storey dwelling planning permission to construct a single storey dwelling house and to install an irl 8 tricel novo wastewater treatment pumped unit and sandcell tertiary treatment system and all associated site works at Drommartin, Causeway, Co. Kerry
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560193
22 Jan 2025Conditional
1) TO CONSTRUCT EXTENSIONS TO REAR AND SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING AND CONSTRUCT A FRONT PORCH AND ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO EXISTINGT DWELLING, (2) TO DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND TO INSTALL NEW MECHANICAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT AND SAND POLISHING FILTER AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS,(3) TO DEMOLISH PART OF EXISTING HAYBARN, AND (4) TO WIDEN THE EXISTING ENTRANCE AT THE JUNCTION WITH THE PUBLIC ROAD AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS , ALL THE ABOVE AT BALLINBRANHIG BALLYDUFF CO.KERY.
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560025
16 Dec 2021Conditional
(A) CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH GARAGE (B) CONSTRUCT A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211460
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 Knockavaghig.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockavaghig.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockavaghig.
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 low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knockavaghig.
- 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 Knockavaghig with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Knockavaghig · Cnoc an Mhachaidh
- Area
- 710,364 m² (71.04 ha, 175.53 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rattoo, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmaurice
- Electoral division
- Drommartin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Drommartin electoral division: 539 people in 184 households; 88% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Addergown, Ardagh, Ballinbranhig, Drommartin, Knockercreeveen
- Placenames
- Knockavaghig 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.