Knockaphuca

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockaphuca, from 128 m² to 176,918 m² (17.69 ha, 43.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Knockaphuca 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.

• 20 Jul 2026N/a

  A new agricultural entrance

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660828

• 27 Feb 2023Conditional

  Retention permission is sought for an infill section between existing industrial units of circa 61 sq.m, attached single storey 'lean to' toilet block and store of circa 20 sq.m and detached office 'Portacabin' of circa 42 sq.m, increased height of extraction duct from carbon filter to circa 3 metres over existing parapet, foul water to foul sewer, surface water to soakaways and all associated site works. Planning permission is sought for the increase in height of portion of existing side wall by circa 1.5m and all associated site works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 23174

• 29 Jun 2020Refused

  for an infill section between existing industrial units of circa 61sq.m, attached single storey 'lean to' toilet block & store of circa 20sq.m and detached office 'Portacabin' of circa 42sq.m, foul water to existing septic tank, surface water to soakaways and all associated site works. Planning Permission is sought for an infill industrial unit between existing industrial units of circa 225sq.m, surface water to soakaways and all associated site works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 20674

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockaphuca.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockaphuca.

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 low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2607 (ZIP).

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 Knockaphuca with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Knockaphuca

Area

331,548 m² (33.15 ha, 81.93 acres)

Civil parish

Castledermot, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkea and Moone

Electoral division

Castledermot, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castledermot electoral division: 1,853 people in 664 households; 70% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castledermot, Crophill, Plunketstown Lower, Saintjohns

Placenames

Knockaphuca 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.