Ballyknockan

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyknockan, from 16 m² to 250,197 m² (25.02 ha, 61.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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 Ballyknockan 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.

• 30 Mar 2026Conditional

  construct a dwelling house, waste water treatment system, percolation area, new bored well, new splayed entrance and associated site work

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660169

• 24 Mar 2026N/a

  construct a dwelling house, waste water treatment system, percolation area, new bored well, new splayed entrance and associated site work

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2660161

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 Ballyknockan.

Recorded monuments

• LA018-010 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Owned by Sir Thomas Colclough in 1598 (Comerford 1886, vol. 3, 284). In low-lying area. Standing remains of lower portions of N wall (L c. 7.9m) and E wall (L 8.6m) built of rubble limestone. A N-S barrel vault with wicker-centring survives over the ground floor. Entrance in N wall and garderobe in SE angle. Remains of mural passage in n wall and possible evidence of stairway in NE angle. Site visited by Michael Moore on the 30-05-1994 and described as a Tower House (ext. dims. 8.7m N-S x 8m E-W) situated on a slight rise in low flat land with good views beyond the road to E and S. This was a small tower house made of roughly coursed rubble, no quoins or decorated stones survive. There is a base-batter, only portions of the N, E and S walls survive to a max. H of c. 4m. There is a break in the n wall but a relieving arch probably over a doorway survives. There was a passage in the N wall and at the NE angle it widens out as if it was becoming a spiral stairs. The ground floor chamber (int. dims. 4.4m N-S) had a N-S barrel vaulted roof. There was a small alcove in the SE angle and an embrasure in the E wall that was probably adapted and converted into an entrance (Wth 1.55m). Near the castle there is a stream running W and S and 22m N of the castle there is a fosse or old trackway (Wth 8m; D 0.3-0.5m) running E-W. Immediately SE of this track there is a small enclosure (dims. 41m E-W x 55mm N-S) defined by a field bank and outer fosse which are likely to be of eighteenth or nineteenth century in date. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

• Castleview House, house, 1750–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-storey Georgian house, c. 1790. Now in ruins.

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 moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyknockan.

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 Ballyknockan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Ballyknockan · Baile an Chnocáin

Area

2,189,861 m² (218.99 ha, 541.13 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcolmanbane, and its townlands

Barony

Maryborough East

Electoral division

Kilcolmanbane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilcolmanbane electoral division: 627 people in 208 households; 96% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycarnan, Ballyheyland, Kilcolmanbane, Lamberton Demesne, Pass

Placenames

Ballyknockan 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.