Knockerk

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockerk, from 176 m² to 619,852 m² (61.99 ha, 153.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 58 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 4 Sept 2026N/a

  the development will consist of permission for the continuation of the extraction from a quarry, approved under planning reference: 23/60250, to include for the extraction of a further 20,000 cu.m of weathered shale over a three-year period from an area of approx. 4.4 Ha within the existing quarry

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2661111

• 9 Oct 2025N/a

  the development will consist of permission for the continuation of the extraction from a quarry, approved under planning reference: 23/60250, to include for the extraction of a further 20,000 cu.m of weathered shale over a three-year period from an area of approx. 4.4 Ha within the existing quarry

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2561084

• 31 Aug 2023Conditional

  The development will consist of permission for the continuation of the extraction from a quarry, approved under planning reference: LB201329, to include for the extraction of a further 20,000 cu.m of weathered shale over a three year period from an area of approx. 4.44Ha within the existing quarry.

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2360250

• 24 Jul 2020Conditional

  the development will consist of: (a) Retention of baled silage storage shed (b) Retention of Silage Pit (c) Retention of calf house (d) Retention of part of existing cubicle shed (e) Retention of cubicle shed & straw bedded shed (f) Permission for construction of extension to cubicle & straw bedded shed (g) Permission for constrcution of calf rearing shed & underground effluent tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, LB200991

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 Knockerk.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockerk.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knockerk, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Knockerk with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Knockerk

Area

1,339,933 m² (133.99 ha, 331.1 acres)

Civil parish

Slane, and its townlands

Barony

Slane Upper

Electoral division

Slane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,936 people lived in 687 households in the Slane electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardcalf, Bryanstown, Grangegeeth, Mullaghdillon, Newrath, Rathmaiden

Placenames

Knockerk 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.