Knockbeg

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockbeg, from 85 m² to 8,523 m² (0.85 ha, 2.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Knockbeg 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.

• 7 Feb 2024Conditional

  development will consist of essential maintenance and repair works to the Barrow Navigation, in accordance with Waterways Ireland’s statutory remit, comprising the following: (i) Bank Revetment & Strengthening Works, (ii) Post-Flood Spot Dredging & Maintenance Dredging, (iii) Back-drain Maintenance, (iv) Small-scale Bank Repair Works, (v) Trackway Surface Upgrade Works, (vi) 10 no. Temporary Construction Compounds, (vii) Temporary mobile welfare units, and, (viii) All works ancillary and incidental to the maintenance and repair works referred to above. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared in respect of the planning application and will be submitted with the planning application

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2460026

• 10 Mar 2023N/a

  permission for development of a c.15.358 ha site at the Barrow Navigation. The development will consist of essential maintenance and repair works to the Barrow Navigation, in accordance with Waterways Ireland's statutory remit, comprising the following; (i) Bank Revetment & Strengthening Works (ii) Post- Flood Spot Dredging & Maintenance Dredging (iii) Back-Drain Maintenance (iv) Small-scale Bank Repair Works (v) Trackway Surface Maintenance Works and (vi) A new temporary haul road located at Bestfield and Borris. Bestfield access route is indicative with final route to be agreed with landowner. A 15m haul road approximately 4m wide will be constructed from the access trackway in the Borris Estate to the Barrow track way and (vii) all works ancillary and incidental to the maintenance and repair works referred to above. A Natura Impact Statement has been prepared in respect of this Planning Application.

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2350

• 16 May 2022Conditional

  retain alterations to my existing dwelling to include retaining the construction of a porch to the front elevation, construction of a single storey extension to the side elevation, internal alterations and all associated site works

  Retention, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 22302

• 12 Feb 2018Conditional

  construct a single storey dressing room extension together with toilets and store with connection to existing onsite services and all associated site works which are within the curtilage of 4 no. protected structures, RPS NO'S 965, 966, 967, 968

  Permission · Laois County Council, 1868

• 9 Feb 2018N/a

  construct a single storey dressing room extension together with toilets and store with connection to existing onsite services and all associated site works which are within the curtilage of 4 no. protected structures, RPS NO'S 965, 966, 967, 968

  Permission · Laois County Council, 1862

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

• LA032-018004 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Holy well associated with St. Fiac of Sleaty monastery (LA032-018001-) whose name was anglicized as Feeg (Ó Riain 2011, 315). No well is marked on the 1839 or 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map. According to the Ordnance Survey letters this well was known locally as Tober-Feeg and was located near Sleaty church (LA032-018001-) (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 22-40). Described by Comerford as 'There was also a holy well near this church called Tober-Feeg, but it is now stopped up' (Comerford 1886, vol. 3, 249). According to local information (pers. comm. Sean Murray) a natural spring well located on flat poorly drained marshy land, 390m to the NE of Sleaty church (LA032-018001-) marks the site of 'Tober Feeg'. A collapsed tree marks the site of the well which is located immediately W of a stream flowing N-S. The well is located on flat poorly drained land with higher dry land immediately to W. The feastday of St. Fiac was commemorated on the 12th of October (Ó Riain 2011, 315). 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. Updated by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 23 March 2015

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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_2458 (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 Knockbeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Knockbeg · An Cnoc Beag

Area

918,072 m² (91.81 ha, 226.86 acres)

Civil parish

Sleaty, and its townlands

Barony

Slievemargy

Electoral division

Shrule, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Shrule electoral division: 316 people in 104 households; 91% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bestfield or Dunganstown (Co. Carlow), Hollymount, Newgarden (Co. Carlow), Rathduff, Shrule, Sleaty

Placenames

Knockbeg 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.