Knocknakearn

63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknakearn, from 85 m² to 229,179 m² (22.92 ha, 56.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Knocknakearn 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.

• 22 Dec 2025Conditional

  Renovate Existing Derelict House with single storey Extension to the Side of the Existing House, Amendment to rear site boundary, New Tertiary Treatment System & Infiltration/Treatment area and to include all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560885

• 9 Feb 2023Conditional

  carry out development works to grounds to include 6nr. floodlights, associated siteworks and ancillary services

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2360042

• 22 Oct 2020Conditional

  retain storage shed as constructed and associated works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 20549

• 24 Jul 2019Conditional

  change the design for the construction of dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, new site entrance and associated site works; granted permission under ref.18/191, including the omission of the first floor portion, change in location of house and domestic garage on the site and other external and internal alterations

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19423

• 29 Mar 2018Conditional

  construct a single storey (and part two storey) dwelling house, a domestic garage, a waste treatment system, a new site entrance and associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18191

• 27 Feb 2017Conditional

  carry out works to include floodlighting associated site works and ancillary services

  Permission · Laois County Council, 17109

• 23 Feb 2017N/a

  erect 6 no. floodlights and columns and low level walking lights and associated works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 1796

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 Knocknakearn.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knocknakearn.

Architectural heritage

• Saint Fintan's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1820–1825 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached gable-fronted barn style Catholic church, c. 1823. Renovated and extended, c. 1975, with projecting porch and sacristy projection added.

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 10 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knocknakearn.

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

Name

Knocknakearn · Cnoc na Ceithirne

Area

1,502,092 m² (150.21 ha, 371.18 acres)

Civil parish

Clonenagh and Clonagheen, and its townlands

Barony

Maryborough West

Electoral division

Ballyfin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballyfin electoral division: 711 people in 225 households; 94% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cappanrush, Clonagh, Clonygowan, Ross, Springfield

Placenames

Knocknakearn 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.