Knockannagad

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockannagad, from 1,172 m² to 276,546 m² (27.65 ha, 68.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Knockannagad 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.

• 9 Oct 2025Conditional

  construct new dwelling house, new site entrance, septic tank treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the planning application.

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560645

• 19 May 2022Conditional

  construct a ground floor extension to the side of the existing dwelling, thereafter retention permission is sought for A)domestic shed, B)change of site boundaries, along with all ancillary site services and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 22315

• 24 Nov 2021Conditional

  to construct a single storey dwelling house, garage, septic tank, treatment system , bored well and al associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 21803

• 17 Dec 2019N/a

  demolish an existing dwelling house and sheds with construction of a new single storey replacement dwelling house, provision of a new vehicular entrance, installation of a new septic tank and percolation area, soakpit and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19718

• 13 Mar 2018Conditional

  construct an agricultural slatted shed and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18145

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains SPA 004160

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockannagad.

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Knockannagad.

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

Name

Knockannagad · Cnocán na gCat

Area

783,131 m² (78.31 ha, 193.52 acres)

Civil parish

Offerlane, and its townlands

Barony

Upperwoods

Electoral division

Cardtown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cardtown electoral division: 169 people in 55 households; 91% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cardtown, Dernamanagh, Garrafin, Killeen, Northgrove

Placenames

Knockannagad 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.