Knocks

172 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocks, from 3 m² to 72,849 m² (7.28 ha, 18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 50 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• R2A1 - Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 167 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2B1 - Commercial Town or Village Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 16 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 11 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R4A2 - New Residential (Strategic Residential Reserve)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1E2 - General Enterprise and Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1F1 - Open Space (Open space, park)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5G1 - Community Infrastructure (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 21 Jul 2026Conditional

  planning permission is sought for: o Car Wash and associated works. o Washdown silt separator. • Air and Water Services. Retention permission is sought for:.o 32mm HDPE watermain..o 150mm foul main..o Associated concrete and kerb works

  Retention · Meath County Council, 2660919

• 8 Jul 2024Conditional

  the development will consist of the construction of a second floor extension to side of dwelling and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2460504

• 21 Jun 2024N/a

  the development will consist of the construction of a 2- storey extension to side of dwelling and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2460457

• 31 Jul 2023Conditional

  The development will consist of; construction of a detached two storey, three bedroomed dwelling, boundary landscaping, and all associated site works The height of the building is 8.261m

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2360194

• 22 Jul 2023N/a

  The development will consist of; construction of a detached two storey, three bedroomed dwelling, boundary landscaping, and all associated site works The building height is 9.06m

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2360178

• 20 Jun 2023N/a

  the development will consist of; construction of a detached two storey, three bedroomed dwelling, boundary landscaping, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2360102

• 1 Sept 2022Conditional

  the provision of roof mounted Solar PV panels and all associated site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 221132

• 10 Aug 2022Conditional

  the provision of a Service Area and Electric Vehicle charging hub and all associated works on a site of approximately 3.4 hectares in area. The proposed development includes 36 no. EV charging points (parking spaces) with a canopy over (maximum height of 3.2 metres); 8 no. general vehicle fuel pumps with a canopy over (maximum height of 5.6 metres) and 2 no. HGV fuel pumps with canopy over (maximum height of 5.6 metres) together with underground fuel storage tanks and ancillary pipe works. Provision is made for an ancillary amenity/services building with a gross floor area of approximately 968 sqm that includes: a retail convenience store with part off-licence (total 100sqm net sales area); 2no food outlets (1 no. with a Drive-Thru function) and a coffee area, ancillary food preparation area, welfare facilities, and a central seating area (166 no. seats). Screened plant (approximately 63 sqm in area) and areas for the fixing of PV panels are proposed at rooftop level. Externally, provision is made for 2 no. picnic areas (100 sqm each); a children's play area (58 sqm); a driver exercise area (54 sqm); 92 no. standard car parking spaces, 4 no. family spaces, 6 no. accessible spaces, 6 no. staff car parking spaces, 1 no. staff EV charging space, 3 no. coach parking spaces, and 12 no. HGV parking spaces (including 2 no. ADR spaces) together with 12 no. bicycle parking spaces, A total of 33 no. signs (both illuminated and non-illuminated) are proposed (with a cumulative area of approximately 168.05 sq,m) to include: 2 no. illuminated totem signs (measuring 8.8m (height) x 1.6m (width) with a combined area of 28.46 sqm); 1 no. illuminated totem sign (measuring 17.5m (height) x 2.5m (width) with an area of 43.75 sqm); wall mounted signage to the services building (37.57 sqm), free-standing (4.76 sqm) and logo and branding signage to all canopies with a total area of (53.49 sqm), Other associated works include the provision of an ESB sub-station (28 sqm); a new left-in and left-out vehicular junction onto the R125 with directional traffic island; raise/fill the site by approximately 0.5 to 1.5 and grading to existing site levels; relocating an approximately 210m long section of n unnamed stream c. 25 metres northwards within the site; and all other ancillary site development, utilities, landscaping, lighting and boundary works/landscaping. The planning application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement. Significant further information/revised plans submitted

  Permission · Meath County Council, 221047

• 22 Mar 2022Conditional

  the development for retention consists of widening of the entrance driveway, provision of a garden office/family recreation structure to the rear garden and erection of fencing to the front of the dwelling

  Retention, 1 home · Meath County Council, 22359

• 8 Feb 2022N/a

  widening of the entrance driveway, provision of a garden office/family recreation structure to the rear garden and erection of fencing to the front of the dwelling

  Retention, 1 home · Meath County Council, 22155

• 19 Dec 2017Conditional

  the development will consist of the demolition of existing rear utility and the construction of a new single storey extension to side and rear of dwelling

  Permission · Meath County Council, RA171474

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 Knocks.

Recorded monuments

• ME044-057001 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise in a fairly level landscape, c. 140m S of an ENE-WSW portion of the canalised headwaters of one of the sources of the S-N River Skane. It was first identified as a low mound in a geophysical survey. Archaeological centre-line testing (04E0478) by T. O’Neill of Testing Area 16 of Contract 1, prior to the construction of the M3 motorway and its related works identified archaeological deposits (excavations.ie: 2004:1279) that were completely excavated (E003044) by S. Elder as Knocks 1 from November 2005 to January 2006 (excavations.ie 2005:AD11). This proves to be a spread of clay with a small amount of burnt stone covering several pits, post-holes and stake-holes that are within a circular enclosure defined by a narrow ditch, but the co-location of a fulacht fia and ring-ditch could be wholly fortuitous. The enclosure (int. diam. 31.5m N-S; 30m E-W) is defined by a narrow fosse which was originally dug in eight segments that were later connected by extending the sections. This has resulted in nine bulbous ditch terminals in the course of the ditch, either intact or wholly or partially removed, as well as the terminals around the entrance gap (Wth 1.9m) at N where the W terminal oversails the E. The ditch sections varied greatly in character, being either V-shaped or U-shaped and cut to varying widths and depths (Wth of top 0.9-1.25m; D 0.3-0.65m). A straight section at SE and an incurving portion at SW distort its circularity as does an in-turning at NW where two section of ditch do not quite join up. The fills extended through the sections, but in the S third where the ditch was cut into a yellow clay subsoil it was filled almost exclusively with this material. Elsewhere the fosse was cut through gravel and compacted clay, and was filled with a succession of silts and gravelly clay slumped from the sides. Animal bone was recovered exclusively from the layer above the primary silting throughout the fosse, and a pig humerus from this produced a C14 date of 970-820 cal. BC) while a bone sample from another part of the fosse provided a determination of 920-800 cal. BC placing the enclosure firmly in the Late Bronze Age. None of the internal features can be related through stratigraphy to the enclosure ditch, and its function cannot be determined, although it is likely to be settlement rather than funereal as no human bone was recovered from the fosse. (Elder 2009, 3-5) See the attached plan from Elder (2009, fig. 7) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 9 December 2021 O’Neill, T. 2004 M3 Clonee - North of Kells, Contract 1 Clonee – Dunshaughlin. Final Report on Archaeological Assessment at Testing Area 16 Knocks, Readsland, Co. Meath. Licence: 04E0478. Unpublished report, Archaeological Consultancy

• ME044-057002 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise in a fairly level landscape, c. 140m S of an ENE-WSW portion of the canalised headwaters of one of the sources of the S-N River Skane. It was first identified as a low mound in a geophysical survey. Archaeological centre-line testing (04E0478) by T. O’Neill of Testing Area 16 of Contract 1, prior to the construction of the M3 motorway and its related works identified archaeological deposits (excavations.ie: 2004:1279) that were completely excavated (E003044) by S. Elder as Knocks 1 from November 2005 to January 2006 (excavations.ie 2005:AD11). This proves to be a spread of clay with a small amount of burnt stone covering several pits, post-holes and stake-holes that are within a circular enclosure defined by a narrow ditch, but the co-location of a fulacht fia and ring-ditch could be wholly fortuitous. Within the NW ambit of the ring-ditch fosse a circular clay-topped mound (diam. 12m) was covered by a spread (dims 14m E-W; 12m N-S; T 0.1m) of greyish brown, clayey silt with 20% broken and burnt stone inclusions which also formed the upper fill of the pits and troughs beneath. The full extent of this layer was truncated by ploughing, but largely beneath it were 15 pits (diam. 0.5m; D 0.25m to 2.87m x 1.9m; D 0.27m). Two flat-bottomed pits, one circular (diam. 1.38m; D 0.12m) and the other rectangular (dims 1.83m x 1.58m; D 0.43m) could have served as troughs, and a timber plank was stuck in the side of the rectangular one. Twenty four post-holes and numerous stake-holes were recorded, about half within the concentration of pits, but no pattern was discernible. Forty five flints, mostly debitage, were recovered, but the chronologically diagnostic pieces - scrapers, knives and a hollow-based arrowhead - could be placed in the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age. A sample of charcoal from the basal fill of one of the pits recorded two possible dates of 2290-2110 or 2100-2040 cal. BC placing it in the Early Bronze Age. (Elder 2009, 5-6) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 9 December 2021 O’Neill, T. 2004 M3 Clonee - North of Kells, Contract 1 Clonee – Dunshaughlin. Final Report on Archaeological Assessment at Testing Area 16 Knocks, Readsland, Co. Meath. Licence: 04E0478. Unpublished report, Archaeological Consultancy Services

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 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; parts are made ground.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Knocks with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Knocks

Area

331,421 m² (33.14 ha, 81.9 acres)

Civil parish

Dunshaughlin, and its townlands

Barony

Ratoath

Electoral division

Dunshaughlin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dunshaughlin electoral division: 8,517 people in 2,904 households; 82% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Dunshaughlin, Johnstown, Leshemstown, Readsland

Placenames

Knocks 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.