Knockbrack

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockbrack, from 2,017 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres) to 132,725 m² (13.27 ha, 32.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Knockbrack 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.

• 12 Sept 2025Conditional

  THE EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE STORE AS CONSTRUCTED. PERMISSION IS SOUGHT FOR CHANGE OF USE OF THIS STRUCTURE FROM DOMESTIC GARAGE STORE USE TO A WORK PLACE STUDIO, WITH ALTERATIONS TO INTERNAL LAYOUT, WINDOWS AND DOORS, INCLUDING ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 2560418

• 26 Aug 2025N/a

  RETENTION OF THE EXISTING STORAGE SHED AS CONSTRUCTED. PERMISSION IS SOUGHT FOR CHANGE OF USE OF THIS STRUCTURE FROM ANCILLARY RESIDENTIAL USE TO A WORK PLACE STUDIO, WITH ALTERATIONS TO INTERNAL LAYOUT, WINDOWS AND DOORS, INCLUDING ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 2560389

• 15 Apr 2020Conditional

  THE ERECTION OF A DWELLING, ENTRANCE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20138

• 5 Sept 2019Refused

  THE ERECTION OF A DWELLING, ENTRANCE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 19431

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 Knockbrack.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockbrack.

Architectural heritage

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

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

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

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

Name

Knockbrack · An Cnoc Breac

Area

589,828 m² (58.98 ha, 145.75 acres)

Civil parish

Templeharry, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlisk

Electoral division

Templeharry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Templeharry electoral division: 215 people in 86 households; 85% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintemple, Cloonaloughan, Gorraun, Graffan, Stonyacre (Co. Tipperary)

Placenames

Knockbrack 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.