Knocks

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocks, from 443 m² to 68,538 m² (6.85 ha, 16.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Knocks 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.

• 8 Jul 2026N/a

  construct new dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area, bored well and use existing entrance

  Outline permission · Laois County Council, 2660452

• 6 Jul 2026N/a

  outline planning permission to construct new dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area, bored well and use existing entrance

  Outline permission · Laois County Council, 2660439

• 1 Jul 2026N/a

  construct new dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area, bored well and use existing entrance

  Outline permission · Laois County Council, 2660428

• 14 Aug 2024Conditional

  demolish the existing shed and outbuildings, the demolition of elements of the existing dwelling, the construction of single storey extensions to the side and rear of the existing dwelling, the construction of a single storey garage / gym with associated car port to the rear of the existing dwelling, associated internal and external alteration works to the existing dwelling, modifications to the existing front boundary wall to form a courtyard area and new septic tank and percolation area together with all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2460473

• 28 Feb 2024Conditional

  construct new dwelling house, with domestic garage, new vehicular access from public road, new bored well, domestic wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2460094

• 19 Feb 2024N/a

  construct one new dwelling house, with domestic garage, new vehicular access from public road, new bored well, domestic wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460073

• 21 Jul 2020Conditional

  extend and alter existing dwelling house and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 20374

• 15 Jul 2020N/a

  an extension and alterations to existing dwelling house. The development will also include an outdoor covered area, retention of existing site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 20358

• 13 Jul 2020N/a

  permission for an extension and alterations to existing dwelling house. The development will also include an outdoor covered area, retention of existing site entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 20350

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: Slieve Bloom Mountains SAC 000412
• Special Protection Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains SPA 004160
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains 000412

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knocks.

Architectural heritage

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

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 moderately high, 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 Knocks.

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

Name

Knocks · Na Cnoic

Area

679,863 m² (67.99 ha, 168 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

Ballyfin Demesne, Ballyfin Upper, Brockra, Cavansheath

Placenames

Knocks 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.