Knockphilip

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Knockphilip, from 371,957 m² (37.2 ha, 91.91 acres) to 371,957 m² (37.2 ha, 91.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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 Knockphilip 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.

• 17 Apr 2020N/a

  continue storage of organic by-product sludge fertilisers as previously granted under planning ref 16/24, for use as a soil improver and fertiliser, as part of existing agricultural operations at Knockphilip, Ballykilcavan, Stradbally, Co. Laois. A Natura Impact Statement has been prepared with regards to the intended planning application

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 20191

• 15 Apr 2020N/a

  continued storage of organic by-product sludge fertilizer for use as a soil improver and fertilizer as part of existing practises on lands at Knockphilip, Ballykilcavan, Stradbally, Co. Laois. As previously granted under planning ref 16/24. A Natura Impact Statement has been prepared with regards to the planning application.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 20186

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

• LA014-041 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked on the 1841 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular 'fort' (max. diam. c. 50m). Situated in undulating countryside. No visible surface remains. 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. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knockphilip, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Knockphilip · Cnoc Philib

Area

371,832 m² (37.18 ha, 91.88 acres)

Civil parish

Curraclone, and its townlands

Barony

Stradbally

Electoral division

Curraclone, the unit of the census

Census 2022

269 people lived in 85 households in the Curraclone electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballykilcavan, Brockley Park, Garrans, Kylebeg

Placenames

Knockphilip 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.