Knightstown

93 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knightstown, from 85 m² to 563,460 m² (56.35 ha, 139.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 36 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 129 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 27 Mar 2025Conditional

  planning application for permission for the renovation and extension of existing single storey detached cottage to include internal and external alterations to plan and elevations, provision of new single storey extension to side, modifications to existing boundary treatments and provision of a new replacement proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area including all associated site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2560307

• 24 Oct 2024Conditional

  the development consists of to construct (1) single storey type dwelling (2) domestic garage (3) proprietary wastewater system (4) site entrance (5) and all ancillary site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2460886

• 3 Feb 2023Conditional

  the construction of a new double-storey, pitched roof extension with mezzanine to the rear elevation of the existing residential property, including all associated site works at Knightstown Lodge, Wilkinstown, Co Meath C15 DP68. The extension will comprise 62m2

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 23103

• 13 Jan 2023N/a

  the construction of a new double-storey, pitched roof extension with mezzanine to the rear elevation of the existing residential property, including all associated site works at Knightstown Lodge, Wilkinstown, Co Meath C15 DP68. The extension will comprise 62m2

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2319

• 23 Dec 2022Conditional

  planning permission for proposed new single storey extension to side of existing dwelling, retention permission is also sought for the construction of new domestic entrance to replace existing agricultural entrance to include closing up of existing domestic entrance and retention of domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 221732

• 15 Feb 2021Conditional

  the construction of a slurry storage tank

  Permission · Meath County Council, 21276

• 4 Dec 2020Conditional

  development consists of retention of single storey extensions to rear of house, front porch & attached domestic shed to side of house

  Retention, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA201859

• 15 Jun 2020Conditional

  renovation of existing dwelling with new front porch, demolition of existing structure to the rear of the dwelling and proposed replacement of rear structure. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission · Meath County Council, KA200744

• 29 Apr 2020N/a

  renovation of existing dwelling with new front porch, demolition of existing structure to the rear of the dwelling and proposed replacement of rear structure

  Permission · Meath County Council, KA200569

• 3 Apr 2020N/a

  renovation of existing dwelling with new front porch, demolition of existing structure to the rear of the dwelling and proposed replacement of rear structure

  Permission · Meath County Council, KA200465

• 2 Sept 2019Conditional

  construction of a two storey farm dwelling house, with a storey & a half side annex, attached 'L' shaped stable building containing 4 stables, tac and plant rooms, with covered car port and first floor covered terrace area. Dung stead and soiled water tank, refurbishment of the existing entrance gateway and existing access road. New wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, along with all associated services, service connections, landscape and site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA191149

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 Knightstown.

Recorded monuments

• ME012-038 Church
  Description

  Situated on a rise in an undulating landscape. The parish church of Kilsany, now called Kilshine from Ceall Shinche – the cell of Sineach, is marked on the Down Survey (1656-8) barony map of Morgallion. Sineach was a daughter of Fionnbharr and descended from the Conall Cearnach, and is known from a Life of St. Abban of Adamstown, Co. Wexford (WX031-023----) (Cogan 1862-7, 2, 284; Ó Riain 2011, 564). A church at Kilsenny is listed in the ecclesiastical taxation (1302-06) of Pope Nicholas IV (Cal. doc. Ire. 5, 261). Ussher (1622) describes the church and chancel of Kilshenny as ruined (Erlington 1847-64, 1, xcvii). According to the Royal Visitation (1693) the church of St. Jane had been a ruin for 40 years and it was not fenced, although the font was noted (Ellison 1973, 4-5). The present Church of Ireland church of St. Sinche, known locally as Cill Insha, was built in 1815 with a spire (Lewis 1837, vol. 2, 209), but it is now a shell within a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 45m N-S; c. 30m E-W) defined by masonry walls. The spire is beginning to suffer from the weather, but there is no evidence of an older structure. The circular font (ext. diam. 0.63m; int. diam. 0.43m; H 0.61m; D 0.25m) with three short legs from this site (Roe 1968, 121-2) is now at the graveyard of St. Columba’s Church of Ireland church, in Kells (ME017-044040-). The circular field pattern (diam. c. 250m) around the graveyard would relate to the older church or might indicated the low-points in the surrounding landscape. For the Down Survey barony map see this web page accessed on 22 May, 2014. http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/down survey maps.php#bm=Morgallion&c=Meath The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 11 December, 2014

• ME012-038001 Graveyard
  Description

  The parish church of Kilsany, now called Kilshine (ME012-038----) is within a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 45m N-S; c. 30m E-W) defined by masonry walls. The circular font (ME0123-038002-) from this site is now at St. Columba’s Church of Ireland church, in Kells (ME017-044040-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 May, 2014

• ME012-038002 Font
  Description

  The circular font (ext. diam. 0.63m; int. diam. 0.43m; D 0.25m; H 0.61m) with three short legs from the church of Kilshine (Roe 1968, 121-2) is now inthe graveyard (ME017-044034-) at St. Columba’s Church of Ireland church, in Kells (ME017-044040-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 23 May, 2014 Amended: 18 June, 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Knightstown.

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.

• Knightstown, Wilkinstown5 sales

Name

Knightstown

Area

2,498,705 m² (249.87 ha, 617.44 acres)

Civil parish

Kilshine, and its townlands

Barony

Morgallion

Electoral division

Castletown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castletown electoral division: 1,034 people in 339 households; 88% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Dowdstown, Dowthstown, Drakestown, Ladyrath, Leggagh, Mountainstown, Wilkinstown

Placenames

Knightstown 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.