Knockbrack

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockbrack, from 110 m² to 275,316 m² (27.53 ha, 68.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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.

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 40 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 14 Sept 2026N/a

  I, Dermot Monaghan – Chairperson of Oldcastle GFC, intend to apply for permission for development at this site: Crossdrum Upper, Oldcastle Co. Meath. The development consists of a (1) proposed new all weather astro turf pitch and ball wall with associated perimeter fence and netting. (2) all ancillary and facilitating site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2661147

• 18 Nov 2025N/a

  the development consists of a (1) proposed new all weather astro turf pitch and ball wall with associated perimeter fence and netting. (2) all ancillary and facilitating site works. Significant Further Information/Revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2561252

• 13 Jul 2024Conditional

  To carry out alterations and amendments to previously approved storey and ½ type dwelling granted under planning file 23/454 to include floor plan and elevation changes and amendments to site layout and site boundary.

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2460528

• 7 Jun 2024Conditional

  the development shall consist of provision of floodlighting columns and lighting units to existing playing surface and track area

  Permission · Meath County Council, 24253

• 26 Apr 2023Conditional

  a one-and-a-half storey house and a one storey detached domestic garage, new wastewater disposal system and all associated site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 23454

• 10 Feb 2022Refused

  a proposed two storey house design and single storey garage design, new septic tank and percolation area along with all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 22166

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 Knockbrack.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockbrack.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey roughcast rendered house, built c.1870. Two-storey return and single-storey extension to rear. Round-arched door opening with spoked fanlight and panelled door. Timber sash windows with stone sills. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and terracotta pots. Enclosed to front with roughcast rendered walls and rendered pier having a cast-iron gate. Three single-storey stone and roughcast rendered outbuildings with pitched and lean-to corrugated-iron and slate roofs to site.

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 Knockbrack, 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

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

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 Knockbrack with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Knockbrack · An Cnoc Breac

Area

915,311 m² (91.53 ha, 226.18 acres)

Civil parish

Loughcrew, and its townlands

Barony

Fore

Electoral division

Moylagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

423 people lived in 166 households in the Moylagh electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Crossdrum Upper, Forkill, Glebe, Loughcrew, Milltown, Rahaghy, Tubride

Placenames

Knockbrack 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.