Knocklead

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocklead, from 1,565 m² to 356,308 m² (35.63 ha, 88.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Knocklead 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.

• 18 Nov 2025Conditional

  Renovate and extend an existing single storey dwelling house, installation of a new wastewater treatment system, percolation area, bored well, upgrade of existing site entrance, boundary treatments and all associated site work.

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560765

• 17 Nov 2025N/a

  renovate and extend an existing single storey dwelling house, installation of a new wastewater treatment system, percolation area, bored well, upgrade of existing site entrance, boundary treatments and all associated site work.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560756

• 13 Nov 2025N/a

  renovate and extend an existing single storey dwelling house, installation of a new wastewater treatment system, percolation area, bored well, upgrade of existing site entrance, boundary treatments and all associated site work

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560747

• 12 Apr 2022N/a

  retain as constructed enabling works to facilitate future development on these lands. The retained works comprise of (a) access track and hardstanding areas; (b) 2 nr. temporary service structures. Permission for construction of stone filter drain within existing open drain to roadside boundary and all associated site works. An N.I.S. report will be submitted to the Planning Authority in connection with the application

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 22218

• 11 Aug 2021N/a

  retain hard standing area/driving track as constructed, full planning permission to complete same as a learner driving centre. Retention permission to retain two structures, one being a children's den and retained as same and the second a welfare / briefing room and retained as same and associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 21563

• 29 Jul 2021N/a

  retain hard standing area/driving track as constructed, full planning permission to complete same as a learner driving centre. Retention permission to retain two structures and associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 21540

• 26 Jun 2019Conditional

  construct an agricultural fodder shed & new agricultural entrance & all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 19363

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 Knocklead.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knocklead.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knocklead, about 1 in 5 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 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 Knocklead.

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

Name

Knocklead · Cnoc Leithid

Area

3,133,135 m² (313.31 ha, 774.21 acres)

Civil parish

Fossy or Timahoe, and its townlands

Barony

Cullenagh

Electoral division

Fossy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghadreen, Aghoney, Baunogemeely, Coolglass, Fallowbeg Upper, Fossy Upper, Knockacrin, Scotland

Placenames

Knocklead 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.