# Knocknagroagh, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Borris, barony of Maryborough East, Co. Laois; in Irish Cnocán na gCruach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,688,838 m² (168.88 ha, 417.32 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 38,619 m² (3.86 ha, 9.54 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Borris, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/borris.md - Barony: Maryborough East - Electoral division: Borris, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Borris electoral division: 1,797 people in 601 households; 58% of households own their home; 77% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/28327 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100773 - Centre: latitude 53.07143, longitude -7.295163 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknagroagh, from 2,087 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres) to 371,645 m² (37.16 ha, 91.84 acres); 22 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 238045: 371,645 m² (37.16 ha, 91.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/238045.md - Parcel 229356: 191,613 m² (19.16 ha, 47.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/229356.md - Parcel 249442: 104,584 m² (10.46 ha, 25.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/249442.md - Parcel 230118: 99,650 m² (9.97 ha, 24.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/230118.md - Parcel 227209: 85,772 m² (8.58 ha, 21.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/227209.md - Parcel 238633: 75,079 m² (7.51 ha, 18.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/238633.md - Parcel 249443: 73,799 m² (7.38 ha, 18.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/249443.md - Parcel 3318077: 68,389 m² (6.84 ha, 16.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3318077.md - Parcel 235849: 66,403 m² (6.64 ha, 16.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/235849.md - Parcel 258806: 65,631 m² (6.56 ha, 16.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/258806.md - Parcel 262406: 63,034 m² (6.3 ha, 15.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/262406.md - Parcel 238631: 56,849 m² (5.68 ha, 14.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/238631.md - Parcel 254982: 55,170 m² (5.52 ha, 13.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/254982.md - Parcel 249444: 42,627 m² (4.26 ha, 10.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/249444.md - Parcel 225447: 38,984 m² (3.9 ha, 9.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/225447.md - Parcel 246062: 38,619 m² (3.86 ha, 9.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/246062.md - Parcel 237870: 33,827 m² (3.38 ha, 8.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/237870.md - Parcel 261705: 30,317 m² (3.03 ha, 7.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/261705.md - Parcel 249439: 24,685 m² (2.47 ha, 6.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/249439.md - Parcel 262454: 24,527 m² (2.45 ha, 6.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/262454.md - Parcel 238632: 23,502 m² (2.35 ha, 5.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/238632.md - Parcel 256263: 19,993 m² (2 ha, 4.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/256263.md - Parcel 4180548: 8,146 m² (0.81 ha, 2.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4180548.md - Parcel 261551: 4,998 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/261551.md - Parcel 257573: 3,708 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/257573.md - Parcel 2454454: 2,902 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2454454.md - Parcel 229723: 2,606 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/229723.md - Parcel 2454457: 2,594 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2454457.md - Parcel 265844: 2,591 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/265844.md - Parcel 225208: 2,454 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/225208.md - Parcel 3935382: 2,087 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3935382.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Knocknagroagh 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) 5 applications, newest first. - 23 Sept 2025, Laois County Council 2560606: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construct a single-storey dwelling house, entrance, garage, septic tank with percolation system and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560606/0 - 17 Sept 2025, Laois County Council 2560592: N/a. Permission. construct a single-storey dwelling house, entrance, garage, septic tank with percolation system and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560592/0 - 23 Nov 2020, Laois County Council 20610: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construct dwellinghouse, entrance, garage, septic tank with percolation system and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/20610/0 - 9 Feb 2018, Laois County Council 1863: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construct single storey extension and all associated works to side of existing dwelling and to convert part of existing to granny flat. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/1863/0 - 8 Feb 2018, Laois County Council 1858: N/a. Permission. construct single storey extension to existing dwelling and all associated works and to convert part of existing to granny flat. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/1858/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ridge of Portlaoise, site code 000876 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LA008-065: Burial, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA008-065----. The files of the National Museum of Ireland records that in October 2000 portions of a human skull were discovered in dredged material from the river Triogue which is the boundary between the townlands of Kyletalesha and Knocknagroagh, Co. Laois (Cahill & Sikora 2011, Vol. 2, 490). The site was investigated by the State Pathologist, Dr John Harbison, and the Museum was not informed until after this time. A site visit was then carried out by Mary Cahill. Unfortunately the site had been heavily disturbed at this stage, and no further remains were recovered (NMI File). Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload / revision : 10 August 2012 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knocknagroagh. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 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: 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 Knocknagroagh. - 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/knocknagroagh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/knocknagroagh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/knocknagroagh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Knocknagroagh 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) - Borris Great: https://everytownland.com/laois/borris-great.md - Cooltoran: https://everytownland.com/laois/cooltoran.md - Eyne: https://everytownland.com/laois/eyne.md - Kyletalesha: https://everytownland.com/laois/kyletalesha.md - Rathnamanagh: https://everytownland.com/laois/rathnamanagh.md - Straboe: https://everytownland.com/laois/straboe.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/knocknagroagh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/knocknagroagh