Knockagh

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockagh, from 1,145 m² to 127,211 m² (12.72 ha, 31.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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.

• 28 Aug 2025Conditional

  permission for development to upgrade an existing agricultural entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2560536

• 16 Mar 2023Refused

  PERMISSION FOR A NEW TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, RESTORATION OF EXISTING OUTBUILDING TO PROVIDE A DOMESTIC STORE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, EXTENSION OF EXISTING ACCESS LANE WITH USE OF EXISTING ENTRANCE ONTO PUBLIC ROAD AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 2360043

• 1 May 2019Conditional

  Retention & Permission: Retention permission for new agricultural entrance and all associated site works and planning permission relates to the completion of new agricultural entrance, new domestic garage and all associated site works.

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19330

• 25 Jun 2018N/a

  Permission and Retention Permission for development to consist of retention permission for new agricultural entrance and all associated site works and permission relating to the completion of new agricultural entrance, new domestic garage and all associated site works.

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 18489

• 22 Jan 2018N/a

  The development consists of RETENTION Permission for new entrance, Lorry Parking area and all associated site works and Planning permission relates to the completion of new entrance, lorry parking area and all associated site works.

  Retention · Louth County Council, 1841

• 20 Dec 2017Conditional

  RETENTION of an existing attic conversion and dormer windows and PERMISSION for changes to the front south and side west elevations to include the enlargement / relocation of existing window openings, the replacement of existing dormer windows, the addition of new rooflights and the addition of a porch.**SIGNIFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION RECEIVED 12/03/2018 to allow for the upgrading of the existing effluent treatment system**

  Retention, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 17950

• 10 Nov 2017N/a

  Permission for changes to the front (south) and west side elevations only, to include the enlargement / relocation of existing window openings, the replacement of existing dormer windows. The addition of new rooflights and addition of porch.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 17838

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

• LH003-041 Promontory fort - inland
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Located at E end of a high ridge running E-W, with the ground falling away sharply on the N, E and S sides. At the W an earth and stone bank with traces of a shallow external fosse cuts off the interior from the rest of the ridge. There is a slight bank extending around other areas of the scarp, with a drop of up to 4.5m down to the interior.

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 10 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2924 (ZIP).

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. Louth.

Name

Knockagh · Cnoc Each

Area

589,785 m² (58.98 ha, 145.74 acres)

Civil parish

Kane, and its townlands

Barony

Dundalk Upper

Electoral division

Faughart, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,065 people lived in 359 households in the Faughart electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Deerpark, Kane, Killin, Philipstown, Shortstone East, Slieve, Stumpa

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.