# Knockbane, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Borrisnafarney, barony of Clonlisk, Co. Offaly; in Irish An Cnoc Bán. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 342,474 m² (34.25 ha, 84.63 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 109,999 m² (11 ha, 27.18 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Borrisnafarney, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/borrisnafarney.md - Barony: Clonlisk - Electoral division: Cullenwaine, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 784 people lived in 279 households in the Cullenwaine electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41799 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180865 - Centre: latitude 52.857792, longitude -7.979595 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockbane, from 32,122 m² (3.21 ha, 7.94 acres) to 200,353 m² (20.04 ha, 49.51 acres); 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 269533: 200,353 m² (20.04 ha, 49.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/269533.md - Parcel 274923: 109,999 m² (11 ha, 27.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/274923.md - Parcel 296362: 32,122 m² (3.21 ha, 7.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/296362.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Knockbane 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 Knockbane 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 Knockbane. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - OF046-023: Moated site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF046-023----. Situated on high ground in upland area. Roughly rectangular shaped area (dims. 34m N-S; 31m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2m; max. ext. H 2.5m) , external fosse (Wth 3m; ext. D 0.5m) best preserved at E with stone lined causewayed entrance (Wth 3m) at E. In the centre of the interior there is a flat topped mound (top diam 3m; base diam 6.5m; H 0.5m) directly opposite the entrance. 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 - OF046-025: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF046-025----. Situated on high ground in upland area overlooking ravine to the SW. Circular area (diam 31m N-S) enclosed by two earthen banks with intervening fosse (Wth 2.5m) and entrance gap (Wth 3.3m) to S. Inner bank (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 2m) is best preserved with the outer bank only visible at S where it acts as a field fence. Field fences radiate out from the site at N, S and W. Quarry in the SW sector of interior has destroyed bank and fosse. 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 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 Knockbane. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Knockbane, 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knockbane. - 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/offaly/knockbane.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/knockbane.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/knockbane.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Knockbane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly: https://everytownland.com/offaly.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballycormick: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballycormick.md - Barnagrotty: https://everytownland.com/offaly/barnagrotty.md - Glaskill: https://everytownland.com/offaly/glaskill-180697.md - Glendine: https://everytownland.com/offaly/glendine-180713.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/offaly/knockbane - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/knockbane