# Knockacrin, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Fossy or Timahoe, barony of Cullenagh, Co. Laois; in Irish Cnoc an Chrainn. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,659,756 m² (165.98 ha, 410.13 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 36,284 m² (3.63 ha, 8.97 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Fossy or Timahoe, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/fossy-or-timahoe.md - Barony: Cullenagh - Electoral division: Fossy, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 183 people lived in 59 households in the Fossy electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/27985 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100753 - Centre: latitude 52.914526, longitude -7.194432 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockacrin, from 983 m² to 452,889 m² (45.29 ha, 111.91 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 229135: 452,889 m² (45.29 ha, 111.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/229135.md - Parcel 245572: 286,460 m² (28.65 ha, 70.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/245572.md - Parcel 4638995: 283,560 m² (28.36 ha, 70.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4638995.md - Parcel 266898: 281,714 m² (28.17 ha, 69.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/266898.md - Parcel 234065: 174,015 m² (17.4 ha, 43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/234065.md - Parcel 250755: 47,641 m² (4.76 ha, 11.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/250755.md - Parcel 264501: 46,281 m² (4.63 ha, 11.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/264501.md - Parcel 4981500: 26,288 m² (2.63 ha, 6.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4981500.md - Parcel 246717: 17,090 m² (1.71 ha, 4.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/246717.md - Parcel 2475643: 11,490 m² (1.15 ha, 2.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2475643.md - Parcel 2606725: 11,443 m² (1.14 ha, 2.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2606725.md - Parcel 265430: 10,314 m² (1.03 ha, 2.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/265430.md - Parcel 241981: 8,906 m² (0.89 ha, 2.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/241981.md - Parcel 4981498: 983 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4981498.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Knockacrin 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) No planning application touches the townland of Knockacrin in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knockacrin. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockacrin. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockacrin. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Knockacrin, about 1 in 5 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knockacrin. - 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/laois/knockacrin.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/knockacrin.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/knockacrin.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Knockacrin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois: https://everytownland.com/laois.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Aghadreen: https://everytownland.com/laois/aghadreen.md - Baunogemeely: https://everytownland.com/laois/baunogemeely.md - Cleanagh: https://everytownland.com/laois/cleanagh.md - Knockbaun: https://everytownland.com/laois/knockbaun.md - Knocklead: https://everytownland.com/laois/knocklead.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/laois/knockacrin - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/knockacrin