Knockattin

51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockattin, from 103 m² to 191,509 m² (19.15 ha, 47.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Knockattin 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.

• 7 Feb 2024Conditional

  Permission for the installation of 4,150m2 (840kWp) ground mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) panels and all associated ancillary works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2460066

• 28 Sept 2023Refused

  Permission for the construction of a new detached two storey house, domestic garage, new proprietary waste water treatment system and percolation area, provision of new vehicular entrance, together with all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 23427

• 9 Feb 2022Conditional

  permission for alterations to the existing entrance, consisting of widening the existing entrance and all associated site works. This development relates to a site with a Protected Structure - LHS011-036 - Burns Cottage/NIAH Registration Number 13901113

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2299

• 19 Jan 2022N/a

  permission for alterations to the existing entrance. The development will consist of widening the existing entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2234

• 4 Oct 2021Conditional

  Permission for a new agricultural farm entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 211237

• 16 Jul 2021N/a

  Outline permission sought for new proposed dwelling and garage, opening of a new vehicular entrance to site and waste water treatment system and polishing filter together with all associated site development works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21894

• 19 May 2020Refused

  Permission for detached dwelling house, install a waste water treatment system with percolation area and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 20348

• 25 Apr 2019N/a

  Retention of a temporary dwelling house, waste water treatment system and associated site development works.

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19312

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Stephenstown Pond 001803

Recorded monuments

• LH011-026 Souterrain
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Section of drystone-built passage found during ploughing in vicinity of LH011-027----. Possibly two sections of same structure. Now inaccessible.

• LH011-027 Souterrain
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Section of drystone-built passage found during ploughing. No further details. Now inaccessible.

• LH012-120 Enclosure
  Description

  Located on top of a hillock that was once on the demesne of Stephenstown House. The cropmark of a rectangular feature (dims c. 52m NW-SE; c. 46m NE-SW) defined by straight sections of a ditch on the SW and NE sides is visible on an Aerial Premium (2013-18) image. The enclosure is cut by a NE-SW field bank and the NE and SE sides are not visible as they are in pasture. It is also visible on OSI images (1995) where it is divided in two by a NE-SW drain and the SW side extends off to the SE. It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére. See the attached enhanced view from Aerial Premium (2013-18) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 21 January 2022

Architectural heritage

• Agnes Burns Cottage, house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey house, built c. 1800. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, replacement red brick corbelled chimneystacks; half-round aluminium gutters on brackets, circular aluminium downpipes. Smooth rendered plinth, roughcast rendered walling. Square-headed window openings to south elevation, stone sills, replacement timber sliding sash windows, segmental-headed window openings to north elevation, stone and replacement concrete sills, replacement timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed door opening, smooth rendered surround, replacement painted timber panelled door and plain glazed fanlight. Sign on door stating "SISTER OF ROBERT BURNS (SCOTTISH POET) LIVED IN HOUSE1817-1834).", Segmental-headed door opening to north, replacement timber vertically-sheeted door. House is set in public parkland.

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 Knockattin, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Knockattin · Cnoc Aitinnne

Area

792,195 m² (79.22 ha, 195.76 acres)

Civil parish

Louth, and its townlands

Barony

Dundalk Upper

Electoral division

Castletown, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinlough, Cavan, Millpark, Rathiddy, Rathroal, Stephenstown, Tates and Carrans Park

Placenames

Knockattin 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.