Knock

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knock, from 450 m² to 505,699 m² (50.57 ha, 124.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Knock in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

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

• 1 Mar 2022Conditional

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA, NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2294

• 25 Nov 2020Refused

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA, NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20589

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 Knock.

Recorded monuments

• OF038-037 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on W face of hill in upland area. The E half of this site is totally destroyed by a modern laneway. All that remains is the W half of a circular area (diam 35m approx.) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.5m) with no evidence of an outer fosse or entrance feature. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF039-031001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the E facing slope of a high ridge running N-S in undulating countryside. Sub-circular area (diam 40m) enclosed by an earthen bank with evidence of stone revetment in its construction (Wth 2m; ext. H 3m; int. H 0.5m) with external fosse (Wth 2.5m; ext. D 1m) which is badly damaged and causewayed entrance gap (Wth 2.5m) at SW. There is evidence of a stone building on the NW side of the enclosing bank which appears to be the wall footings of a possible tower house or an unclassifed castle (OF039-031002-) of medieval date. Running around the top of the earthen bank are the possible foundations of a stone wall with possible corner tower at SE sector. Possibly a ringfort which has been fortified in the medieval period. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF039-031002 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Located in N sector of ringfort on E facing slope of high ground in upland area with Tower house (OF039-047----) to SE. Ringfort (OF039-031----) which appears to have been fortified in the medieval period. This site has been classed as a motte and bailey however its location, low size of mound and lack of defensive qualities all argue against such a classification. The mound which is referred to as a motte is level with the height of the enclosing bank and was probably constructed to form a foundation for this stone building which measures approx. 13m E-W by 10m N-S with wall thickness of 1.1m. There is evidence of a slight base batter on the N end of the W wall. This building was originally rectangular in shape. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Knock.

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 Knock with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Knock · An Cnoc

Area

2,021,334 m² (202.13 ha, 499.48 acres)

Civil parish

Ettagh, and its townlands

Barony

Ballybritt

Electoral division

Aghancon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Aghancon electoral division: 371 people in 144 households; 89% of households own their home; 17% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinlough, Ballywilliam, Cloghan, Curragh, Glenacurragh, Killeen, Leap, Loughwheelion or Moneyadda, Srahanbregagh, Tullaroe

Placenames

Knock 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.