Knockatober

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockatober, from 312 m² to 262,107 m² (26.21 ha, 64.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Knockatober 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.

• 27 Jul 2026N/a

  Retention and Permission: Retention permission for a two storey dwelling house with a single storey annexe, a one and a half storey domestic garage, a waste water treatment system and soil polishing filter as constructed, and the permission development will consist of the change of use of the domestic garage to a utility room, toilet, home office and canteen, for 2 storage rooms at first floor level, and for associated site works

  Retention, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 2660506

• 29 Jun 2026N/a

  Retention and Permission: The retention development consists of the retention of a two storey dwelling house with single storey annexe, a one and a half storey domestic garage, a waste water treatment system and soil polishing filter as constructed, and the permission development will consist of the change of use of the domestic garage to a utility room, toilet, home office and canteen, for 2 storage rooms at first floor level, and for associated site works

  Retention, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 2660431

• 22 Dec 2025Conditional

  Permission for an extension and alterations to existing dwelling house and associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 25186

• 21 Oct 2025N/a

  The retention development consists of the retention of a two storey dwellinghouse with single storey annexe, a one and a half storey domestic garage, a waste water treatment system and soil polishing filter as constructed, and the permission development will consist of the change of use of the domestic garage to a utility room, toilet, home office and canteen, for 2 storage rooms at first floor level, and for associated siteworks.

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560665

• 17 Apr 2025Conditional

  The development will consist of the construction of a solar PV development and Battery Energy Storage System facility (‘BESS’) on a ca. 167ha site consisting of: Solar PV panels laid out in arrays across the Site on ground mounted frames, with string inverters attached to selected ground mounted frames; 12 No. transformer units; The battery energy storage compound consisting of 368 No. BESS modules; 1 No. transformer unit; 8 No. Power Electronic Compact Twin Skids; 1 No. Control Unit (ca. 12m2); 2m high landscaping berm and perimeter security fencing (2.4m high); Electrical and communications cabling within private lands and within the L2254, R170 and R211/R132 public roads; Pole-mounted security cameras; Perimeter security fencing (2m high) and security gates; Upgrade of 3 No. existing Site entrances; Development of 2 No. new Site entrances; 3 No. temporary construction compounds; 3 No. clear span bridges; Internal access tracks; and, All associated ancillary development, landscaping and reinstatement works. *Significant Further Information Received on 26/11/2025*

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2560223

• 17 Jul 2023Conditional

  Retention and Permission: Permission for replacement of existing septic tank/soakaway with proprietary waste water treatment system/percolation area together with all associated site works and retention of existing two storey extension to front of dwelling house

  Retention, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 23332

• 16 Jun 2023N/a

  Permission/retention for development at Knockatubber, Dunleer. The development will consist/consists of replacement of existing septic tank/soakway with proprietary waste water treatment system /percolation area together with all associated site works and retention of existing two storey extension to front of dwelling.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 23292

• 17 May 2022Conditional

  permission for a single storey flat roofed rear extension to existing single storey pitched roofed detached dwelling, new accessible rear entrance and internal alterations to make dwelling fully accessible, rooflight and PV panels to front roof pitch. *Significant Further Information received on 18/11/2022*

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22390

• 18 Feb 2022Conditional

  EXTENSION OF DURATION OF 17/119 - Permission for development to consist of proposed dwelling house, detached domestic garage, roadside entrance, wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22123

• 31 Jan 2022Refused

  permission for the construction of a new dwelling house, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2263

• 7 Jan 2022N/a

  permission for a new dwelling house, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2212

• 22 Aug 2019Conditional

  Retention permission for a domestic garage/store/games room and for all associated site works.

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19667

• 6 Feb 2019Conditional

  Permission sought for dwelling house, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, detached domestic garage and all associated site works. *Significant Further Information Received on 09/04/2019*

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 1969

• 1 Jun 2018Conditional

  Permission for works to an existing Above Ground Natural Gas Installation. The development will consist of the replacement of approximately 101m of existing 2.4m high chainlink perimeter fencing and associated access/emergency gates with new 2.4m high green palisade security fencing/gates, and all associated site works.

  Permission · Louth County Council, 18424

• 20 Feb 2017Conditional

  Permission for development to consist of proposed dwelling house, detached domestic garage, roadside entrance, wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 17119

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 Knockatober.

Recorded monuments

• LH018-024 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Referred to as 'Knockatubber well' and St. Bridget is suppose to have visited it (IFC Schools' Mss 674, 60-61). According to local tradition it was used to cure diabetes. (SMR file). Situated on a lane which was once the main Dublin-Belfast Road (IFC Schools' Mss 674, 60-61). Not possible to locate when inspected by ASI in 1967. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 4 July 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Knockatober, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Knockatober with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Knockatober · Cnoc an Tobair

Area

891,426 m² (89.14 ha, 220.28 acres)

Civil parish

Cappoge, and its townlands

Barony

Ardee

Electoral division

Dromin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

679 people lived in 218 households in the Dromin electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Hammondstown, Knockdinnin, Lawlesstown, Marshallrath, Mooremount, Mosstown North, Rathescar North

Placenames

Knockatober 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.