Knockandarragh

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockandarragh, from 152 m² to 296,980 m² (29.7 ha, 73.39 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 Knockandarragh 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.

• 4 Feb 2021Conditional

  a part single storey, part two storey dwelling, a wastewater treatment system and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2194

• 5 Feb 2018Conditional

  dwelling as constructed, Permission for extension to the dwelling along with landscaping and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 18102

• 19 Jan 2018N/a

  (a) existing farm shed, which is in use as a residential building (b) extension of the existing dwelling (floor area 100 sqm) with new single storey extension (floor area 170 sqm) to the front of the existing building to form one residential dwelling (total floor area : 270 sqm) (c) landscaping and site works associated with the proposed development

  Retention, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 1837

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 Knockandarragh.

Recorded monuments

• WI021-008 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the S face of an E-W ridge. A bivallate ringfort (diam. 36m) defined by a bank (Wth c. 2.5m; int. H c. 1.4m; ext. H c. 2m), a fosse (Wth 3-4m) and an external bank (Wth c. 1m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H c. 0.5m) which is best preserved at the NE. A gap at SW probably represents an entrance and there is a further gap at NE. In the interior towards the NE is a small hollow (diam. 3.2m; D 0.7m) with vertical sides and an access trench (Wth 1.7m), possibly the remains of either a kiln or a souterrain. A small bank attached to the site at the SW almost opposite the entrance may be the remains of an annexe. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008

• WI021-008001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the S face of an E-W ridge. A subcircular rath (diam. c. 28m) visible on the OS 25-inch map and on both editions of the OS 6-inch map. ‘Mulladarragh’ rath (WI021-008----) adjoins this rath immediately to the NE. Portion of the bank remains almost opposite the SW entrance to Mulladarragh rath. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 4 December 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knockandarragh, about 1 in 5 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 Knockandarragh.

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 Knockandarragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Knockandarragh · An Cnocán Darach

Area

1,532,182 m² (153.22 ha, 378.61 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmore, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Upper

Electoral division

Imael North, the unit of the census

Census 2022

257 people lived in 93 households in the Imael North electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyvraghan, Donard Mountain, Donard Upper, Drumreagh, Monroe, Snugborough

Placenames

Knockandarragh 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.