Knockfield

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockfield, from 129 m² to 593,961 m² (59.4 ha, 146.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Knockfield 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.

• 15 Feb 2021Refused

  to construct a part single storey, part one and a half storey dwelling, detached garage, new entrance, waste water treatment system and percolation area, bored well and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 21168

• 27 Nov 2020Conditional

  works carried out to dwelling house consisting of raising walls, adding external stone cladding, replacing roof and altering fenestration, installing new windows and external doors and extending a room to the west side also planning permission to demolish outbuildings to the rear and decommission existing septic tank and percolation area and construct a single storey extension to the rear and side of existing house and installing a proprietary wastewater treatment system and sand polishing filter and all associated and necessary site works,

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 201435

• 4 Sept 2020N/a

  to demolish outbuilding to the rear and decommission existing septic tank and percolation area and construct a single storey extension to the rear and side of existing house and install a proprietary wastewater treatment system and sand polishing filter and all associated and necessary site works,

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 201018

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 Knockfield.

Recorded monuments

• KD040-016 Enclosure
  Description

  Shown on Taylor's map of County Kildare (1783) as a circular feature. No visible surface traces. Date of upload: 8 September 2016

• KD040-017 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Circular area (diam. c. 34m) surrounded by an earthen bank with an entrance at the S. Levelled around 1981. Situated in pasture land. No visible surface traces. Date of upload: 8 September 2016

• KD040-041 Cist
  Description

  Cist containing cremated bones discovered c. 1950. No further information (Waddell 1970, 120). Date of upload: 8 September 2016

• KD040-051 Burial
  Description

  Monitoring was undertaken at a quarry site at Graney East, Castledermot, Co. Kildare, in February and July 1999 (Licence No. 99E0052). The site is c. 3.7km to the south-west of Castledermot. The immediate area surrounding the development is rich in archaeological sites, with a 17th-century house (KD040-013----) to the north-west, a cross site (KD040-044----) to the immediate north and a holy well site (KD040-014----) immediately to the west. In the western third of the field in which the proposed quarry lies is the site of a nunnery (KD040-015----) that was founded c. 1200 for nuns of the order of Arrouaise and was recognised as an abbey by 1476. The abbey was suppressed in 1539. The area is densely covered with low earthworks and fragments of walls. It is possible to distinguish a driveway and small fields to the east of the driveway, as illustrated on the 1st edition OS 6-inch map. Most of the earthworks are concentrated to the west of this driveway. The graveyard is not recognisable, and a small quarry had been excavated, at some unknown time in the past, near the western boundary. To the east of the earthworks is a long, linear earthwork-like feature. It is possible that this feature represents the remains of the eastern boundary of a garden depicted on the 1837 map. However, without excavation it is difficult to determine the relationship between this feature and the nunnery. In addition, a mill-race, serving a mill in Graney West td, is illustrated on the 1837 map. A section of this mill-race runs through part of the field in which the development lies and, though now dry, is relatively intact. The remains of a sluice were found at the junction formed by the river and mill-race. The mill-race was constructed and lined with stones and ran from its junction with the Graney River in a general north-westerly direction towards a mill in Graney West td. The present ruins (KD040-043----) include a date stone of 1799, but the main standing building, which is partly demolished, includes the lower ten or so courses of a previous structure from which, projecting from the north side, the foundation courses of an even earlier building are visible. The existence of such an earlier mill is mentioned in the Civil Survey of 1654-6. An assessment of the project, prepared by the writer, suggested the inclusion of appropriate buffers along the line of the mill-race, as well as between the nunnery and the edge of the development area. These buffer areas were subsequently agreed with both the NMHPS and Kildare County Council and were conditions of the grant of planning. Monitoring of soil-stripping in an area of c. 2 acres undertaken in February 1999 revealed no features or deposits of archaeological interest; a total of ten sherds of medieval/post-medieval pottery were recovered. Additional topsoil-stripping was undertaken in another c. 2-acre area of the site in July 1999, during which a single skeleton was uncovered (Licence No. 99E0052 ext.). Following discussions with both the NMHPS and the NMI, it was decided initially to undertake testing in the general area surrounding the skeleton in order to determine whether it was part of a graveyard. The results of this were negative, and it was agreed that the skeleton should be excavated and removed. The skeleton was orientated east-west, with the skull to the west. It lay in an extended position with the legs flexed. The skull was damaged, and it was not possible to ascertain how it lay. The right arm was extended, and the left arm was positioned across the ribcage. The legs were flexed towards the south, and the right leg lay over the left. An examination of the skeleton (Clare Mullins, pers. comm.) indicated that it was a female, aged late 20s/early 30s. The skeleton lay in and on a sandy gravel material, and it was not possible to determine a grave-cut. The skeleton lay 834mm (101.418m OD) below the present ground surface. Five additional sherds of medieval/post-medieval pottery were recovered during this phase of monitoring, four from the topsoil and one from the material surrounding the skeleton (www.excavations.ie). Monitoring of topsoil-stripping in relation to a small quarry development commenced in 1999, during which a female skeleton was uncovered and excavated (Excavations 1999, 127-8). Additional monitoring was undertaken in mid-April 2000. During the process of topsoil-stripping, an additional human skeleton (Sk. 2) was dislodged from an in situ position when a dumper truck caused a portion of a baulk to collapse while entering the site from an 'unstripped' area. This caused damage and disturbance to most of the skeleton, with only the lower legs and feet remaining in situ. Faint traces of a grave-cut were discernible, indicating the likelihood that the individual lay in an extended position with a general east-north-east/west-south-west orientation. Analysis of this individual indicated that it was the remains of a middle-aged adult female (Clare Mullins, pers. comm.). Additional skeletons were uncovered in a group located c. 25m north-north-east of Sk. 2. Consequently, the remaining unstripped area of the quarry was subjected to a programme of archaeological testing in mid-late August. The extent of the burial area was revealed to be 11.8m north-south x 9.6m, with a minimum depth of 0.4m from the existing surface. This group of burials lies in a natural sand-filled depression in the underlying gravel, at the highest point of the site. The burials appear to be generally orientated east-west, and there is some evidence for disturbance disarticulation, probably the result of the site being in use over a period of time rather than representing a single episode of burial. In addition, there was some evidence for stratification. After discussions with NMHPS, an appropriate buffer zone and reinstatement programme were agreed and implemented. In addition, an area to the south-south-east was subsequently topsoil-stripped, during which no additional material of archaeological interest was uncovered (www.excavations.ie).

Architectural heritage

• Foot bridge, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-span granite ashlar footbridge over river, c.1840. Coursed rock-faced granite ashlar walls to abutments. Rock-faced granite ashlar coping. Single square-headed span. Cut-stone lintel. Rubble stone soffits. Sited spanning Graney River.

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

At the centre of the townland of Knockfield, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2631 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Knockfield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Knockfield

Area

1,558,523 m² (155.85 ha, 385.12 acres)

Civil parish

Graney, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkea and Moone

Electoral division

Graney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

803 people lived in 274 households in the Graney electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyraggan, Coltstown, Graney East, Graney West, Knockshannagh

Placenames

Knockfield 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.