Knockbaun

85 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockbaun, from 63 m² to 395,797 m² (39.58 ha, 97.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Knockbaun 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.

• 21 May 2025N/a

  construct a new vintage vehicle storage shed

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560306

• 18 Jul 2022Conditional

  construct new dwelling house and garage, new treatment system with polishing filter, new site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 22441

• 12 Oct 2021Conditional

  develop as follows: the continued use and operation of the existing quarry including deepening of the quarry. Extraction will be confined to the existing permitted quarry area (P.A. Ref. 10/383) comprising an extraction area of c. 14.5 ha within an overall application area of c. 19.6 ha. The development will include provision of new site infrastructure, including portacabin site office / canteen, toilets, concrete batching plant and truck washdown facility, hydrocarbon interceptors, mobile crushing and screening plant, upgrading of the water management system, provision of holding tank for wastewater, and other ancillaries. The proposed development will utilise/upgrade the existing in-situ quarry infrastructure, including site access, internal roads, store room, wheel wash, weighbridge, aggregate storage bays, refuelling hard stand, water settlement pond system, and other ancillaries. The planning application will be accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and a Natura Impact Statement (NIS).

  Permission · Laois County Council, 21700

• 4 Oct 2021N/a

  develop as follows: the continued use and operation of the existing quarry including deepening of the quarry. Extraction will be confined to the existing permitted quarry area (P.A. Ref. 10/383) comprising an extraction area of c. 14.5 ha within an overall application area of c. 19.6 ha. The development will include provision of new site infrastructure, including portacabin site office / canteen, toilets, concrete batching plant and truck washdown facility, hydrocarbon interceptors, mobile crushing and screening plant, upgrading of the water management system, provision of holding tank for wastewater, and other ancillaries. The proposed development will utilise/upgrade the existing in-situ quarry infrastructure, including site access, internal roads, store room, wheel wash, weighbridge, aggregate storage bays, refuelling hard stand, water settlement system, and other ancillaries. The planning application will be accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and a Natura Impact Statement (NIS).

  Permission · Laois County Council, 21676

• 31 Oct 2017Conditional

  construct new dwelling house, new site entrance, new well, new treatment system and percolation areas all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17583

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 Knockbaun.

Recorded monuments

• LA024-049001 Enclosure
  Description

  In an upland area. An oval enclosure visible on aerial photographs (GSI, S 66-7). No visible surface remains. 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

• LA024-049002 Linear earthwork
  Description

  Linear features visible on aerial photograph (GSI, S 66-7). In an upland area. No visible surface remains. 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

• LA024-050 Standing stone
  Description

  Marked only on the 1909 edition of the OS 6-inch map. An irregular shaped stone, tapering towards the top (H c. 1.3m; max. Wth c. 1.25m,min. Wth c. 0.65m, T. c. 0.38m). Described by O'Byrne as 'At Cleanagh, in the partish of Dysart Gallen or Ballinakill, are eight pillar stones marking the line of a famous battle fought in a very remote age. This battle is memorable in history as having led to the dissevering of Ossory from the Kingdom of Leinster, and the infliction of the Boromean tribute which subsequently caused so much bloodshed in the country. The places where the leaders in this memorable battle fell and were interred, are marked by upright pillar-stones, according to the fashion of the times' (O'Byrne 1856, 17). 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

• LA024-052 Megalithic structure
  Description

  Marked ony on the 1909 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on a rock-strewn SW-facing slope, this feature consists of a stone, 1.40m by 1.30m by 690 cm thick, resting horizontally above a slight hollow in the ground. On its upper surface are portions of a circular groove which seems to have been about 1m in diameter. The groove is 1cm wide and 0.05cm deep. The hill-top on which the stone stands is littered with natural blocks of stone (de Valera and O Nuallain 1972, 97, No. 2). 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

• LA024-053 Standing stone
  Description

  Marked only on the 1909 edition of the OS 6-inch map. An irregular shaped stone (H c. 1.05m , Wth c. 0.75m, T. c. 0.3m) lying horizontally. 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

• LA024-054 Enclosure
  Description

  A circular area (max. diam. c. 53m) defined by an inner bank (Wth c. 3m; int. H c. 0.15m, ext. H 0.6m), a shallow intervening fosse and an outer bank (Wth 1.3m, int. H c. 0.1m, wext. H c. 0.45m) except at S. It is cut by a field boundary at S and NNW. No trace of original entrance. This site is visible on aerial photographs ( GSI, S 66-7). 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

• LA024-055 Megalithic structure
  Description

  Marked only on the 1909 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Situated in an upland area, no surface remains visible. There is no trace of this feature nor does there appear to be any information about it. (de Valera and O'Nuallain 1972, 97, No. 3.). 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

• LA024-094 Earthwork
  Description

  Cropmark of circular-shaped area (diam. c. 23m) enclosed by low bank and wide outer fosse transected at S by field boundary running E-W visible on Digital Globe imagery taken 2011-13. Outline of earthwork visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 08/03/2010. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 08/03/2010 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Seán Murray Date of upload: 22 April 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Knockbaun, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, 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 Knockbaun.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Knockbaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Knockbaun · An Cnoc Bán

Area

4,201,806 m² (420.18 ha, 1,038.29 acres)

Civil parish

Dysartgallen, and its townlands

Barony

Cullenagh

Electoral division

Dysartgallen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

275 people lived in 91 households in the Dysartgallen electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghadreen, Aughatubbrid or Chatsworth (Co. Kilkenny), Cleanagh, Garrintaggart, Graiguenahown, Knockacrin, Moyadd

Placenames

Knockbaun 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.