Knockbane

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockbane, from 723 m² to 133,910 m² (13.39 ha, 33.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Knockbane 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.

• 17 Dec 2024Conditional

  for the continuance of use of existing site infrastructure, including all processing equipment and the extension of the extraction area at Ballyburn Pit (currently permitted under planning reference 05/2091 and ABP PL09.220222) which is located within the Townlands of Ballyburn Upper, Gorteenvacan, Knockbane, Castledermot, Co. Kildare. The proposal includes for the extension of the extraction area into agricultural lands to the south with known quality reserves of sand and gravel. The extension will cover an area of 28.3 hectares (ha), with the overall application area covering 37.8 ha, the balance comprising continuance of use and restoration. The Proposed Development will seek to extract sand and gravel reserves (circa 3,000,000 tonnes over the lifetime) to a final pit floor of 71m OD, ensuring a finished pit floor above the winter water table. The Proposed Development seeks the continuance of use of existing established pit infrastructure (including processing plant, machinery, entrance, office/welfare facilities, carpark, wheel wash, weighbridge, haul routes and other ancillary infrastructure). The Proposed Development also includes provisions for the restoration of the Site, which will include the importation of circa 1,125,000 tonnes of clean uncontaminated soil and stone by-product materials to compliment overburden originating from within the Site. A planning permission of 15 years is being sought for the completion of the Proposed Development. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application. Revised by Significant further information which consists of of a reduction of estimated extraction tonnages of sand and gravel reserves to circa 2,664,392 tonnes and reduced importation for restoration to circa 975,259 tonnes of clean uncontaminated soil and stone by-product materials due to extraction area revisions, archaeological information resulting from geophysical surveys/archaeological testing and a revised restoration plan has been presented in the form of an updated NIS, addendums to the EIAR and Revised Plans

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2461358

• 18 Nov 2024N/a

  for the continuance of use of existing site infrastructure, including all processing equipment and the extension of the extraction area at Ballyburn Pit (currently permitted under planning reference 05/2091 and ABP PL09.220222) which is located within the Townlands of Ballyburn Upper, Gorteenvacan, Knockbane, Castledermot, Co. Kildare. The proposal includes for the extension of the extraction area into agricultural lands to the south with known quality reserves of sand and gravel. The extension will cover an area of 28.3 hectares (ha), with the overall application area covering 37.8 ha, the balance comprising continuance of use and restoration. The Proposed Development will seek to extract sand and gravel reserves (circa 3,000,000 tonnes over the lifetime) to a final pit floor of 71m OD, ensuring a finished pit floor above the winter water table. The Proposed Development seeks the continuance of use of existing established pit infrastructure (including processing plant, machinery, entrance, office/welfare facilities, carpark, wheel wash, weighbridge, haul routes and other ancillary infrastructure). The Proposed Development also includes provisions for the restoration of the Site, which will include the importation of circa 1,125,000 tonnes of clean uncontaminated soil and stone by-product materials to compliment overburden originating from within the Site. A planning permission of 15 years is being sought for the completion of the Proposed Development. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2461214

• 7 Nov 2017Conditional

  construct; (a) a milking parlour, handling and drafting area and waiting yard with underground slatted tank, (b) a dairy with ancillary rooms, (c) erection of a meal bin and water storage tank, (d) an agricultural livestock cubicle shed with underground slatted tank and (e) a new entrance and all other associated site works. Revised by significant further information consisting of; Landscape screening proposal along with modifications to widen an existing domestic entrance and improve sightlines. Revision of the site boundary.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 171247

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 Knockbane.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockbane.

Architectural heritage

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

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_2579 (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 Knockbane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Knockbane

Area

448,991 m² (44.9 ha, 110.95 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

Ballyburn Upper, Ballyhade, Burtonhall Demesne, Burtonhall Demesne (Co. Carlow), Gorteengrone (Co. Carlow), Gorteenvacan, Killyshane (Co. Carlow)

Placenames

Knockbane 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.