# Knockbrack, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Templeharry, barony of Clonlisk, Co. Offaly; in Irish An Cnoc Breac. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 589,828 m² (58.98 ha, 145.75 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,556 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Templeharry, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/templeharry.md - Barony: Clonlisk - Electoral division: Templeharry, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 215 people lived in 86 households in the Templeharry electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41919 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180867 - Centre: latitude 52.927013, longitude -7.999042 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 307425: 132,725 m² (13.27 ha, 32.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307425.md - Parcel 4670728: 122,252 m² (12.23 ha, 30.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4670728.md - Parcel 307250: 94,240 m² (9.42 ha, 23.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307250.md - Parcel 305168: 36,248 m² (3.62 ha, 8.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/305168.md - Parcel 271679: 18,220 m² (1.82 ha, 4.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271679.md - Parcel 274907: 5,274 m² (0.53 ha, 1.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/274907.md - Parcel 279921: 4,556 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/279921.md - Parcel 306430: 3,668 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/306430.md - Parcel 293681: 3,448 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/293681.md - Parcel 359958: 2,954 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/359958.md - Parcel 359624: 2,782 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/359624.md - Parcel 311197: 2,436 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/311197.md - Parcel 283654: 2,017 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/283654.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 12 Sept 2025, Offaly County Council 2560418: Conditional. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560418/0 - 26 Aug 2025, Offaly County Council 2560389: N/a. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560389/0 - 15 Apr 2020, Offaly County Council 20138: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. THE ERECTION OF A DWELLING, ENTRANCE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/20138/0 - 5 Sept 2019, Offaly County Council 19431: Refused. Permission, 1 home. THE ERECTION OF A DWELLING, ENTRANCE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/19431/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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 Knockbrack. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockbrack. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockbrack. ## 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, low (inferred). - 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, 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/knockbrack.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/knockbrack.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/knockbrack.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Knockbrack 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) - Ballintemple: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballintemple-180081.md - Cloonaloughan: https://everytownland.com/offaly/cloonaloughan.md - Gorraun: https://everytownland.com/offaly/gorraun-180723.md - Graffan: https://everytownland.com/offaly/graffan.md - Stonyacre (Co. Tipperary): https://everytownland.com/tipperary/stonyacre.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/knockbrack - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/knockbrack