Knockagh

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockagh, from 3,685 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres) to 341,864 m² (34.19 ha, 84.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Knockagh 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 Sept 2021Conditional

  for a circular overground slurry storage tank and all associated site works which was constructed in lieu of the geomembrane lined slurry lagoon as granted under PL REF: 17/293

  Retention · Longford County Council, 21261

• 21 Aug 2019Conditional

  proposed construction of an attached sun room extension to the south-western façade of existing dormer bungalow type dwelling house and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 19217

• 24 Nov 2017Conditional

  (a) construction of a milking parlour, dairy, ancillary rooms, waiting yard and handling facilities, (b) construction of an underground parlour washings tank, (c) erection of a meal bin and water storage tank, (d) construction of an agricultural cubicle house and underground slatted tank, (e) construction of a straw bedded calving area and calf rearing facilities, (f) construction of a geomembrane-lined slurry lagoon and all associated site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 17293

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 Knockagh.

Recorded monuments

• LF023-068 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Straddling a low, narrow E-W ridge in pasture. This circular area (diam. c. 38m) is carved out of the ridge and is defined by an irregular scarp (H 0.5-2m). At the base of the scarp at ESE are traces of a shallow external fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.15m). The original entrance is not recognisable. Large boulders protrude from the ground in the E half of the interior. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 16 January 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knockagh, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Knockagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Knockagh · Cnoc Each

Area

1,061,646 m² (106.16 ha, 262.34 acres)

Civil parish

Taghshinny, and its townlands

Barony

Shrule

Electoral division

Kilglass, the unit of the census

Census 2022

730 people lived in 280 households in the Kilglass electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintober (Bonny), Ballymacshane, Ballynamanagh, Killinbore, Liscormick, Screeboge

Placenames

Knockagh 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.