Knockloughlin
Townland in the civil parish of Templemichael, barony of Longford, Co. Longford; in Irish Cnoc Lochlainn
- Area
- 102.3 ha
- 253 acres
- Land parcels
- 64
- registered freehold, median 2,921 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockloughlin, from 99 m² to 247,875 m² (24.79 ha, 61.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Knockloughlin 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
27 Mar 2026Conditional
of existing mobile chip van and all ancillary site works
Retention · Longford County Council, 2660096
27 Mar 2026Conditional
of existing mobile coffee van and all ancillary site works
Retention · Longford County Council, 2660097
18 Dec 2025Conditional
the proposed change of two storey dwelling house design from what was previously granted full planning permission under planning reference no. pl21/356 and all ancillary site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 2560306
18 Jul 2024Conditional
the proposed erection of a tributary sculpture together with associative landscaping and all ancillary works
Permission · Longford County Council, 2460152
26 Mar 2024Conditional
proposed construction of a bungalow type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable onsite treatment system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2460056
17 Dec 2021Conditional
demolition of existing derelict outhouses together with the proposed construction of a two storey type dwelling house with agricultural storage shed, entrance onto adjacent laneway, boundary fence/wall, wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 21356
4 Oct 2021Conditional
to retain, as constructed: garage/store on site and associated site works. Alteration of front elevation of dwelling to include installation of external door with fanlights. Conversion of attached garage to living accommodation
Retention, 1 home · Longford County Council, 21287
16 Jul 2020Refused
for dwelling house & wastewater treatment unit, vehicular access & driveway
Outline permission · Longford County Council, 20157
8 Jan 2020Conditional
Construction of a two-storey type dwelling house with attached sun lounge, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, proprietary wastewater treatment unit with percolation area and ancilary site works. Revise the site boundaries so as to increase the site size from 0.23 hectares for what was originally applied for to 0.3 hectares
Extension of duration · Longford County Council, 202
3 Jul 2019Conditional
the proposed construction of 3 no. two storey type dwelling house with detached garages, individual proprietary wastewater treatment systems with individual percolation areas, boundary fence/walls, internal access road with singular vehicular & pedestrian entrance out onto adjoining public road and all ancillary works
Permission · Longford County Council, 19175
25 Mar 2019Refused
for the proposed construction of 4 No. Two storey type dwelling house with detached garages, individual proprietary wastewater treatment systems with individual percolation areas, boundary fence/walls, internal access road with singular vehicular & pedestrian entrance out onto adjoining public road and all ancillary works
Permission · Longford County Council, 1983
14 Nov 2018Refused
an existing mobile log house and services and all associated works
Retention · Longford County Council, 18261
10 Feb 2017Conditional
proposed construction of an agricultural shed consisting of stables, tack room and bale/feed storage area together with an outdoor sand arena, access road and all ancillary works
Permission · Longford County Council, 1736
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knockloughlin.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockloughlin.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockloughlin.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 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 Knockloughlin.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Knockloughlin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.
The townland
- Name
- Knockloughlin · Cnoc Lochlainn
- Area
- 1,022,738 m² (102.27 ha, 252.72 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templemichael, and its townlands
- Barony
- Longford
- Electoral division
- Cloonee, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cloonee electoral division: 767 people in 271 households; 80% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Drumure, Gorteenorna, Killeenatruan, Kiltybegs, Kiltyreher
- Placenames
- Knockloughlin 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.