Knocktopher Commons

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocktopher Commons, from 44 m² to 71,966 m² (7.2 ha, 17.78 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 Knocktopher Commons 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.

• 19 Aug 2022Conditional

  for a single storey extension to the rear of an existing granny flat which was previously granted under Pl. Ref: 21/806 to an existing dwelling house

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 22542

• 28 Sept 2021Conditional

  to retain indefinitely a partially complete single storey structure and permission to complete and extend this structure to form a granny flat to a dwelling currently under construction which was previously granted under Pl. Ref: 20/214

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 21806

• 3 Apr 2020Conditional

  for a single storey private residence, detached garage, vehicular entrance and driveway, bore well, wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works on lands located

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 20214

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 Knocktopher Commons.

Architectural heritage

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

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 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_2196 (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 Knocktopher Commons with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Knocktopher Commons · Coimíneas Chnoc an Tóchair

Area

730,700 m² (73.07 ha, 180.56 acres)

Civil parish

Knocktopher, and its townlands

Barony

Knocktopher

Electoral division

Knocktopher, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Knocktopher electoral division: 543 people in 192 households; 84% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyboodan, Ballygeardra, Barrettstown, Baysrath, Danganbeg, Glebe, Knocktopher Abbey, Ricesland, Sheepstown

Placenames

Knocktopher Commons 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.