# Knocks West, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Currin, barony of Dartree, Co. Monaghan; in Irish An Cnoc Thiar. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 670,586 m² (67.06 ha, 165.71 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 24,951 m² (2.5 ha, 6.17 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Currin, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/currin.md - Barony: Dartree - Electoral division: Currin, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Currin electoral division: 729 people in 255 households; 74% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/40047 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 171267 - Centre: latitude 54.09968, longitude -7.253518 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocks West, from 187 m² to 64,894 m² (6.49 ha, 16.04 acres); 22 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 319222: 64,894 m² (6.49 ha, 16.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/319222.md - Parcel 330482: 59,821 m² (5.98 ha, 14.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/330482.md - Parcel 315931: 55,326 m² (5.53 ha, 13.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/315931.md - Parcel 322718: 51,325 m² (5.13 ha, 12.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/322718.md - Parcel 319190: 51,260 m² (5.13 ha, 12.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/319190.md - Parcel 4329983: 48,374 m² (4.84 ha, 11.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4329983.md - Parcel 319382: 47,599 m² (4.76 ha, 11.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/319382.md - Parcel 344499: 47,099 m² (4.71 ha, 11.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/344499.md - Parcel 319543: 45,826 m² (4.58 ha, 11.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/319543.md - Parcel 318083: 39,820 m² (3.98 ha, 9.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/318083.md - Parcel 356612: 33,790 m² (3.38 ha, 8.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/356612.md - Parcel 319528: 33,668 m² (3.37 ha, 8.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/319528.md - Parcel 347677: 24,951 m² (2.5 ha, 6.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/347677.md - Parcel 346849: 22,332 m² (2.23 ha, 5.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/346849.md - Parcel 321711: 18,139 m² (1.81 ha, 4.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/321711.md - Parcel 354553: 4,370 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/354553.md - Parcel 343571: 4,032 m² (0.4 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/343571.md - Parcel 321697: 3,902 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/321697.md - Parcel 4128145: 3,576 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4128145.md - Parcel 4166887: 3,323 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4166887.md - Parcel 334031: 2,457 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/334031.md - Parcel 4343749: 2,132 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4343749.md - Parcel 4343747: 887 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4343747.md - Parcel 5105807: 772 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5105807.md - Parcel 342996: 187 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/342996.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Knocks West in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Knocks West in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knocks West. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MO021-013: Mass-rock, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO021-013----. Located at a break in slope on a S-facing slope and on the E side of a NNE-SSW field bank. In the 1960s the landowner and a local priest built a concrete wall around the mass-rock, which is still present creating a bay (dims 1.05m NE-SW; 0.7m NW-SE; H 0.7m) open to the SE and with the stump of an iron cross still present, but the mass rock is no longer present. (Ó Gallachair 1957, 117) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 3 November, 2016 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knocks West. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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 Knocks West. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/knocks-west.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/knocks-west.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/knocks-west.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Knocks West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan: https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Aghnaskew: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/aghnaskew-170068.md - Callowhill: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/callowhill.md - Corrackan: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/corrackan.md - Drumacleeskin (Co. Cavan): https://everytownland.com/cavan/drumacleeskin.md - Knocks East: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/knocks-east.md - Skerrick West: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/skerrick-west.md - Tullyalt (Co. Cavan): https://everytownland.com/cavan/tullyalt.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/knocks-west - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/knocks-west