# Knocklead, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Fossy or Timahoe, barony of Cullenagh, Co. Laois; in Irish Cnoc Leithid. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 3,133,135 m² (313.31 ha, 774.21 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 73,641 m² (7.36 ha, 18.2 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 7 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/1417562 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100770 - Centre: latitude 52.923792, longitude -7.179875 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocklead, from 1,565 m² to 356,308 m² (35.63 ha, 88.05 acres); 25 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 258774: 356,308 m² (35.63 ha, 88.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/258774.md - Parcel 266895: 228,352 m² (22.84 ha, 56.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/266895.md - Parcel 264703: 187,667 m² (18.77 ha, 46.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/264703.md - Parcel 256219: 156,849 m² (15.68 ha, 38.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/256219.md - Parcel 268526: 156,397 m² (15.64 ha, 38.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/268526.md - Parcel 225634: 151,616 m² (15.16 ha, 37.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/225634.md - Parcel 261261: 151,060 m² (15.11 ha, 37.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/261261.md - Parcel 231597: 125,606 m² (12.56 ha, 31.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/231597.md - Parcel 233655: 125,073 m² (12.51 ha, 30.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/233655.md - Parcel 254616: 124,920 m² (12.49 ha, 30.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/254616.md - Parcel 252549: 123,275 m² (12.33 ha, 30.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/252549.md - Parcel 258562: 118,149 m² (11.81 ha, 29.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/258562.md - Parcel 233238: 111,535 m² (11.15 ha, 27.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/233238.md - Parcel 225390: 110,637 m² (11.06 ha, 27.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/225390.md - Parcel 5748116: 104,221 m² (10.42 ha, 25.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5748116.md - Parcel 229240: 89,735 m² (8.97 ha, 22.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/229240.md - Parcel 233444: 86,300 m² (8.63 ha, 21.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/233444.md - Parcel 227495: 80,151 m² (8.02 ha, 19.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/227495.md - Parcel 259252: 79,005 m² (7.9 ha, 19.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/259252.md - Parcel 255865: 68,278 m² (6.83 ha, 16.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/255865.md - Parcel 257911: 66,417 m² (6.64 ha, 16.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/257911.md - Parcel 244422: 44,532 m² (4.45 ha, 11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/244422.md - Parcel 257860: 37,570 m² (3.76 ha, 9.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/257860.md - Parcel 226298: 31,063 m² (3.11 ha, 7.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/226298.md - Parcel 236754: 30,601 m² (3.06 ha, 7.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/236754.md - Parcel 245822: 29,887 m² (2.99 ha, 7.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/245822.md - Parcel 5888201: 26,751 m² (2.68 ha, 6.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5888201.md - Parcel 234720: 24,957 m² (2.5 ha, 6.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/234720.md - Parcel 262178: 24,062 m² (2.41 ha, 5.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/262178.md - Parcel 357765: 21,216 m² (2.12 ha, 5.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/357765.md - Parcel 244421: 16,465 m² (1.65 ha, 4.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/244421.md - Parcel 233253: 15,344 m² (1.53 ha, 3.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/233253.md - Parcel 254421: 8,885 m² (0.89 ha, 2.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/254421.md - Parcel 244420: 8,250 m² (0.83 ha, 2.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/244420.md - Parcel 357752: 3,804 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/357752.md - Parcel 231620: 3,776 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/231620.md - Parcel 263688: 2,082 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/263688.md - Parcel 251137: 1,565 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/251137.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 7 applications, newest first. - 18 Nov 2025, Laois County Council 2560765: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560765/0 - 17 Nov 2025, Laois County Council 2560756: N/a. Permission. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560756/0 - 13 Nov 2025, Laois County Council 2560747: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560747/0 - 12 Apr 2022, Laois County Council 22218: N/a. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/22218/0 - 11 Aug 2021, Laois County Council 21563: N/a. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/21563/0 - 29 Jul 2021, Laois County Council 21540: N/a. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/21540/0 - 26 Jun 2019, Laois County Council 19363: Conditional. Permission. construct an agricultural fodder shed & new agricultural entrance & all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/19363/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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 Knocklead. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knocklead. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knocklead. ## 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 Knocklead, 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 Knocklead. - 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/knocklead.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/knocklead.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/knocklead.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Knocklead 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 - Aghoney: https://everytownland.com/laois/aghoney.md - Baunogemeely: https://everytownland.com/laois/baunogemeely.md - Coolglass: https://everytownland.com/laois/coolglass.md - Fallowbeg Upper: https://everytownland.com/laois/fallowbeg-upper.md - Fossy Upper: https://everytownland.com/laois/fossy-upper.md - Knockacrin: https://everytownland.com/laois/knockacrin.md - Scotland: https://everytownland.com/laois/scotland.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/knocklead - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/knocklead