# Knocktopher Commons, Co. Kilkenny: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Knocktopher, barony of Knocktopher, Co. Kilkenny; in Irish Coimíneas Chnoc an Tóchair. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 730,700 m² (73.07 ha, 180.56 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,686 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Knocktopher, https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/parish/knocktopher.md - Barony: Knocktopher - Electoral division: Knocktopher, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Kilkenny, https://everytownland.com/kilkenny.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/27291 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 91057 - Centre: latitude 52.485069, longitude -7.232982 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocktopher Commons, from 44 m² to 71,966 m² (7.2 ha, 17.78 acres); 33 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 864033: 71,966 m² (7.2 ha, 17.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/864033.md - Parcel 842073: 58,815 m² (5.88 ha, 14.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/842073.md - Parcel 3818855: 35,079 m² (3.51 ha, 8.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3818855.md - Parcel 832994: 34,765 m² (3.48 ha, 8.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/832994.md - Parcel 831114: 22,092 m² (2.21 ha, 5.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/831114.md - Parcel 859710: 21,612 m² (2.16 ha, 5.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/859710.md - Parcel 5058829: 21,243 m² (2.12 ha, 5.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5058829.md - Parcel 3208679: 15,448 m² (1.54 ha, 3.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3208679.md - Parcel 870313: 12,293 m² (1.23 ha, 3.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/870313.md - Parcel 855130: 8,558 m² (0.86 ha, 2.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/855130.md - Parcel 853236: 6,946 m² (0.69 ha, 1.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/853236.md - Parcel 5667302: 6,550 m² (0.65 ha, 1.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5667302.md - Parcel 842803: 5,985 m² (0.6 ha, 1.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/842803.md - Parcel 5058825: 4,817 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5058825.md - Parcel 4836125: 4,285 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4836125.md - Parcel 5487972: 4,218 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5487972.md - Parcel 5179208: 3,248 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5179208.md - Parcel 5667316: 2,785 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5667316.md - Parcel 5667306: 2,588 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5667306.md - Parcel 4065186: 2,527 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4065186.md - Parcel 5163160: 1,977 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5163160.md - Parcel 5657774: 1,878 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5657774.md - Parcel 4749016: 1,464 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4749016.md - Parcel 4624250: 1,164 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4624250.md - Parcel 5487964: 1,105 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5487964.md - Parcel 4748981: 881 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4748981.md - Parcel 4748991: 823 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4748991.md - Parcel 4065235: 558 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4065235.md - Parcel 5820987: 348 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5820987.md - Parcel 4788021: 262 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4788021.md - Parcel 4749041: 193 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4749041.md - Parcel 5657773: 184 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5657773.md - Parcel 5487952: 98 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5487952.md - Parcel 5657764: 58 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5657764.md - Parcel 4749017: 48 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4749017.md - Parcel 5820971: 44 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5820971.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 19 Aug 2022, Kilkenny County Council 22542: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/22542/0 - 28 Sept 2021, Kilkenny County Council 21806: Conditional. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/21806/0 - 3 Apr 2020, Kilkenny County Council 20214: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/20214/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC, site code 002162, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002162 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knocktopher Commons. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knocktopher Commons. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2196.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/knocktopher-commons.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/knocktopher-commons.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/knocktopher-commons.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballyboodan: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/ballyboodan.md - Ballygeardra: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/ballygeardra.md - Barrettstown: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/barrettstown.md - Baysrath: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/baysrath-90300.md - Danganbeg: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/danganbeg.md - Glebe: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/glebe-90807.md - Knocktopher Abbey: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/knocktopher-abbey.md - Ricesland: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/ricesland.md - Sheepstown: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/sheepstown.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/knocktopher-commons - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kilkenny/knocktopher-commons