Knockshangan

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockshangan, from 8 m² to 84,502 m² (8.45 ha, 20.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 · 56 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 6 Aug 2021Conditional

  change of house & garage type, from that was previously granted under Planning Ref. KA201506. The development will consist of the construction of a storey and a half dwelling and single storey domestic garage, as opposed to the single storey bungalow previously granted. The development will also consist of the construction of a new site entrance and installation of waste water treatment system and all associated site works, previously granted under planning ref. KA201506

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 211531

• 15 Mar 2021Conditional

  retention permission for the development to be retained consists of alterations, renovations and a story and a half extension to the pre-existing single storey cottage on the site. Significant further information/revised plan submitted on this application

  Retention · Meath County Council, 21483

• 19 Oct 2020Conditional

  a new single-storey three-bedroom detached dwelling, detached garage, wastewater treatment system, new site entrance and all associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA201506

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 Knockshangan.

Recorded monuments

• ME029-005 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a fairly level landscape. This was described in 1969 (SMR file) as a circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 35m) defined by an earthen bank (at E: Wth of base 3m; int. H 0.1-0.2m; ext. H 0.9m) and an outer fosse (at E: Wth of base 3m; ext. D 0.3m). There was an entrance (Wth of base 3m) and causeway (Wth of top 3.2m; H 0.3m) at NNE. Its visible profile was being eroded by 1995 (OSAP). 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: 28 February 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2382 (ZIP).

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

Name

Knockshangan · Cnoc na Seangán

Area

497,123 m² (49.71 ha, 122.84 acres)

Civil parish

Athboy, and its townlands

Barony

Lune

Electoral division

Grennanstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Grennanstown electoral division: 1,260 people in 420 households; 86% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Grennanstown, Knocknahattin, Martinstown, Pluckstown

Placenames

Knockshangan 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.