Knockpatrick

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockpatrick, from 2,040 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres) to 415,110 m² (41.51 ha, 102.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 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 Knockpatrick 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.

• 21 Dec 2020Conditional

  sought for use of part of the pit floor (0.35 hectares) as open storage of aggregate stockpiles (no processing) following expiry of permission 05/586 (PL 09.251775) to date. Planning permission is sought for the restoration of former pit through the importation and deposition of inert soil and stones on an area of 2.90 hectares, spreading of existing site won soils on an area of 0.17 hectares, both to result in return to agricultural use of the pit formerly authorised under 05/586 (PL 09.251775). The importation of additional material will use the existing site access point, all works to be within an area of 3.07 hectares, all associated civil works which includes grading of pit floor and existing banks as part of the restoration works, and the re-commissioning and use of the existing wheelbath. A term of 5 years is sought for the development

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 201586

• 10 Dec 2020N/a

  sought for use of part of the pit floor (0.35 hectares) as open storage of aggregate stockpiles (no processing) following expiry of permission 05/586 (PL 09.251775) to date. Planning permission is sought for the restoration of former pit through the importation and deposition of inert soil and stones on an area of 2.90 hectares, spreading of existing site won soils on an area of 0.17 hectares, both to result in return to agricultural use of the pit formerly authorised under 05/586 (PL 09.251775). The importation of additional material will use the existing site access point, all works to be within an area of 3.07 hectares, all associated civil works which includes grading of pit floor and existing banks as part of the restoration works, and the re-commissioning and use of the existing wheelbath. A term of 5 years is sought for the development

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 201513

• 25 Nov 2020N/a

  the restoration of former pit through the importation and deposition of inert soil and stones on an area of 2.90 hectares, spreading of existing site won soils on an area of 0.17 hectares, both to result in return to agricultural use of the pit formerly authorised under 05/586 (PL 09.251775), and for the retention of use of part of the pit floor (0.35 hectares) as open storage of aggregate stockpiles (no processing) following expiry of permission 05/586 (PL 09.251775) to date; the importation of additional material will use the existing site access point, all works to be within an area of 3.07 hectares, all associated civil works which includes grading of pit floor and existing banks as part of the restoration works, and the re-commissioning and use of the existing wheelbath. A term of 5 years is sought for the development

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 201424

• 11 Nov 2019Conditional

  the construction of a grain store and ancillary works (i.e. concrete yards, gates and boundaries all for agricultural purposes only) in existing farmyard area utilising existing site entrance

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 191257

• 27 Sept 2019N/a

  construction of Grain Store, and ancillary works (i.e. concrete yards, gates and boundaries all for agricultural purposes only) in existing farmyard area utilising existing site entrance

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 191071

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 Knockpatrick.

Recorded monuments

• KD040-008 Enclosure
  Description

  Circular area (diam. 55m) surrounded by a low bank planted with trees, and a shallow external fosse filled with field boulders. Nine low concentric earthen banks cover the interior. Monument has the general appearance of having been landscaped. Monument lies slightly downslope, rather than enclosing the summit of the hill. Date of upload: 8 September 2016

• KD040-009 Enclosure
  Description

  Shown on 1907 OS 6-inch map as a roughly triangular area enclosed by a bank (max. diam. c. 70m). Situated in a wooded area which appears to have been quarried at one time. The bank is fairly massive (H. c. 1.5m (outside); c. 2.5m (inside) due to location on slope), and is best preserved at W. Described in 1955 as having a shallow rock-cut fosse outside the bank, with a circular house site at SE (Danaher 1955, no. 290) Date of upload: 8 September 2016

• KD040-010001 Burial ground
  Description

  An approximately rectangular graveyard rising towards the centre and enclosed by a modern wall. There is a large, earthfast granite boulder to the S of centre has the so-called imprints of St Patrick's feet, crozier point and an incised cross. The now blocked well (KD040-010002-) is mentioned by Jackson (JKAS 1979-80, 140). Date of upload: 8 September 2016

• KD040-010002 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Situated in corner of Knockpatrick graveyard (KD040-010001-), now covered over. Associated with St. Patrick and visited on 17th March (JKAS 1979-80, 152). Date of upload: 8 September 2016

• KD040-010003 Graveslab (present location)
  Description

  Fixed to the graveyard wall at Knockpatrick (KD040-010----) but reputedly found near the Nunnery at Graney (KD040-015----). A slightly tapering granite slab (dims. H 0.75m; Wth 0.31-0.37m; T 0.18m), the base and right-hand edge of which are obscured by concrete, carry's a ringed cross (diam. 0.31m) with splayed terminals and stem, carved in low relief. At the junction of cross and stem is a bulbous feature (diam. 0.11m); possibly a boss or knop. Extending diagonally from this feature are two diagonal appendages, interpreted by Harbison (1989-91, +) as representing ribbons. The possible original location of the slab is designated KD040-015001-. (Corlett 2003, 98-99, 102) Date of upload: 8 September 2016

• KD040-013 House - 17th century
  Description

  A complete but ruined small seventeenth century house with a T-shaped plan, gable ends and chimney stacks (FF 1976, 81-2). There are traces of garden walls around the house. Date of upload: 8 September 2016

• KD040-038 Architectural fragment
  Description

  1. Quoin (?) showing winged figure, probably angel. Of medieval appearance, most likely from nunnery at Graney (KD040--015----). 2.Rectangular holy water stoup, with rectangular basin, tapering towards base. Of granite. Found at Dairy lane, St. John's, Castledermot. Date of upload: 8 September 2016

• KD040-044 Cross
  Description

  A small, crude granite cross found in a ditch beside a seventeenth century house (No. 40:13***). Now in private possession. Date of upload: 8 September 2016

• KD040-072 Concentric enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 20m) with outer enclosing element visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image of Google Earth photograph taken 14/07/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Simon Dowling Date of upload: 27 December 2019

• KD040-073 Enclosure - large enclosure
  Description

  Situated on S slope of Knockpatrick with burial ground (KD040-01001-), holy well (KD040-01002-) and enclosure (KD040-009----) 115m to N. Cropmark of large kidney-shaped enclosure (approx. dims. 80m NE-SW x 45m NW-SE) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image of Google Earth photograph taken 14/07/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Simon Dowling Date of upload: 27 December 2019

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1800–1837 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1837, on a rectangular plan. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with ridge tiles, rendered red brick Running bond chimney stacks having capping, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods on slate flagged eaves. Lime rendered coursed rubble stone battered walls with rough cut granite flush quoins to corners. Segmental-headed central door opening with overgrown threshold, and cut-granite monolithic surround centred on keystone framing timber panelled door with fanlight now missing. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing six-over-six (ground floor) or two-over-two (first floor) timber sash windows. Square-headed central door opening to rear (west) elevation with lintel framing timber boarded door. Set in overgrown grounds with rough cut granite monolithic piers to perimeter supporting tubular steel "farm gate".

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, 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_2630 (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 Knockpatrick with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Knockpatrick

Area

1,712,183 m² (171.22 ha, 423.09 acres)

Civil parish

Graney, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkea and Moone

Electoral division

Graney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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

Neighbouring townlands

Davidstown (Pilsworth), Graney East, Graney West, Knockroe, Plunketstown Lower, Plunketstown Upper

Placenames

Knockpatrick 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.