Knockwilliam

57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockwilliam, from 11 m² to 186,890 m² (18.69 ha, 46.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 Knockwilliam 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.

• 26 Jun 2026N/a

  for a proposed new all-weather synthetic playing pitch with a high perimeter fencing & a low retaining wall, stormwater soakaways, landscaping and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2660403

• 30 Jul 2025Conditional

  for a sunroom extension to our dwelling house and retention permission for a garage as constructed, including all necessary site works.

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2560475

• 19 Sept 2019Conditional

  to construct a new short stay / holiday camping park consisting of 11 no. glamping pods, new bore well, new sewerage treatment system / percolation area and parking area, including all additional site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 19666

• 8 Nov 2017Conditional

  planning/retention permission for 1. proposed kitchen extension to the rear and proposed covered patio area to the side of existing clubhouse, 2. retention of existing changing rooms to the rear of existing clubhouse and retention of existing extension to the front of the existing clubhouse and all associated site development works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 17734

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 Knockwilliam.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockwilliam.

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 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_2212 (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 Knockwilliam with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Knockwilliam · Cnoc Liam Gheancaigh

Area

1,006,185 m² (100.62 ha, 248.63 acres)

Civil parish

Derrynahinch, and its townlands

Barony

Knocktopher

Electoral division

Ballyhale, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballyhale electoral division: 428 people in 165 households; 74% of households own their home; 48% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhale, Castlebanny, Coolmeen, Kiltorcan

Placenames

Knockwilliam 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.