Knockatavy

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockatavy, from 201 m² to 174,787 m² (17.48 ha, 43.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 9 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 9 Jul 2026Conditional

  Retention of the construction of an original dwelling house and associate site development works. Permission for a new waste water treatment system and associated site development works.

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2690

• 17 Oct 2025Conditional

  Retention permission for a single storey rear extension to an existing dwelling house and associated site development works

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 25158

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 Knockatavy.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockatavy.

Architectural heritage

• Saint Mary's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Roman Catholic church, built c. 1830, tower and belfry added c. 1870. Rectangular-plan nave, central crenellated three-stage tower with pinnacle and cross finial to south, side porches, chancel and sacristy to north. Hipped slate roofs, clay ridge tiles, rendered corbelled chimneystack with cross motif to north, cast-iron gutters on tooled stone cornice. Squared coursed limestone walling, smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walling to chancel and sacristy, ruled-and-lined pilaster to second and third stages of tower, ashlar limestone string courses to tower. Round-headed window openings, red brick block-and-start surrounds tooled limestone sills, painted timber traceried windows, stained glass, circular and round-headed windows to north, smooth rendered surrounds, stained glass. Square-headed openings to sacristy, one-over-one timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed door openings to side elevations tower and northern side porches, stained glass fanlights, painted vertically-sheeted timber double doors. Red brick surrounds to tower doors. Square-headed door opening to sacristy, rendered surround, painted vertically-sheeted timber door accessed by concrete steps. Carved timber balcony to interior of church, painted rendered reredos to north, baptismal font on polychromatic tiles to south. Set on height, surrounded by graves, extension of graveyard to west; bounded by squared-and-snecked limestone walling, circular gate piers giving access to school yard to north-west, walling to south surmounted by wrought-iron railings. Rock-faced ashlar limestone gate piers, pyramidal cap, wrought-iron gates. Sandstone steps to church.

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 Knockatavy, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2927 (ZIP).

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 Knockatavy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Knockatavy · Cnoc an tSamhaidh

Area

440,763 m² (44.08 ha, 108.91 acres)

Civil parish

Louth, and its townlands

Barony

Dundalk Upper

Electoral division

Castletown, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinclare, Ballinlough, Dunbin Little, Mullabohy, Newtown, Rathiddy

Placenames

Knockatavy 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.