# Knockagh, Co. Longford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Taghshinny, barony of Shrule, Co. Longford; in Irish Cnoc Each. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,061,646 m² (106.16 ha, 262.34 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 110,412 m² (11.04 ha, 27.28 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Taghshinny, https://everytownland.com/longford/parish/taghshinny.md - Barony: Shrule - Electoral division: Kilglass, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Longford, https://everytownland.com/longford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/32754 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 130636 - Centre: latitude 53.613295, longitude -7.685745 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 76139: 341,864 m² (34.19 ha, 84.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/76139.md - Parcel 72568: 331,837 m² (33.18 ha, 82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/72568.md - Parcel 4755866: 116,971 m² (11.7 ha, 28.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4755866.md - Parcel 82111: 103,853 m² (10.39 ha, 25.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/82111.md - Parcel 78306: 95,887 m² (9.59 ha, 23.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/78306.md - Parcel 5891216: 3,685 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5891216.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 8 Sept 2021, Longford County Council 21261: Conditional. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/21261/0 - 21 Aug 2019, Longford County Council 19217: Conditional. Permission. proposed construction of an attached sun room extension to the south-western façade of existing dormer bungalow type dwelling house and all ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/19217/0 - 24 Nov 2017, Longford County Council 17293: Conditional. Permission. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/17293/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knockagh. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LF023-068: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF023-068----. 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 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 Knockagh. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 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/longford/knockagh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/longford/knockagh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/longford/knockagh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Knockagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford: https://everytownland.com/longford.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballintober (Bonny): https://everytownland.com/longford/ballintober-bonny.md - Ballymacshane: https://everytownland.com/longford/ballymacshane.md - Ballynamanagh: https://everytownland.com/longford/ballynamanagh.md - Killinbore: https://everytownland.com/longford/killinbore.md - Liscormick: https://everytownland.com/longford/liscormick.md - Screeboge: https://everytownland.com/longford/screeboge.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/longford/knockagh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/longford/knockagh