Knockeen

69 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockeen, from 112 m² to 243,018 m² (24.3 ha, 60.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 53 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 Knockeen 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.

• 31 Jul 2025Conditional

  retain the meal bin as constructed and permission to construct a cubicle shed and underground slatted slurry tank and all associated site works

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2560668

• 27 Sept 2024Conditional

  Planning permission to construct a new dwelling house served by a wastewater treatment system, construct a new domestic entrance to include upgrading of the existing farm track to domestic drive and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460732

• 18 Apr 2023Conditional

  RETAIN (A) OUTBUILDINGS AS CONSTRUCTED (B) AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF THE DWELLING (C) THE FRONT ENTRANCE PORCH (D)ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. PLANNING PERMISSION TO (E) EXTEND AND RENOVATE THE EXISTING DWELLING (F) CONSTRUCT ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23421

• 14 Sept 2020Conditional

  FOR ALTERATIONS TO SITE BOUNDARY TREATMENTS A GRANTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION 17/1188 ALL

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20834

• 9 Mar 2020Conditional

  (A) DEMOLITION OF EXISITNG CALFING SHED, CALF SHED, MILKING PARLOUR AND DAIRY (B) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW MILKING PALROUR WITH HANDLING AND DRAFTING AREA AND DIARY (C) CONSTRUCTION OF A CALVING SHED WITH UNDERGROUND SLATTED TANK (D) CONSTRUCTION OF A CALF REARING SHED (E) ERECTION OF A MEAL BIN AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 20225

• 26 Jun 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE AND DETACHED OUTBUILDING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS INCLUDING A WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19670

• 28 Nov 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A ONE AND A HALF STOREY DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, VEHICULAR ENTRANCE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS ALL

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 171188

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 Knockeen.

Recorded monuments

• KE039-028 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• KE039-046 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knockeen, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_203 (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 Knockeen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Knockeen · An Cnoicín

Area

1,372,469 m² (137.25 ha, 339.14 acres)

Civil parish

Castleisland, and its townlands

Barony

Trughanacmy

Electoral division

Castleisland, the unit of the census

Census 2022

3,392 people lived in 1,351 households in the Castleisland electoral division. 69% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinvariscal, Camp, Crag, Doolaig South, Killally, Meanus, Mullaghmarky, Portduff

Placenames

Knockeen 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.