Knockavota
Knockavota is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcavan, barony of Gorey, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Cnoc an Mhóta.
Parcel 2989586
- Area
- 2,776 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 187 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Knockavota
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 low, low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3217 (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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 68.8 ha
- 170 acres
- Land parcels
- 66
- registered freehold, median 2,286 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 27
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
66 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockavota, from 6 m² to 174,180 m² (17.42 ha, 43.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Knockavota 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
6 May 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction a standalone prefabricated structure intended
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260568
3 Mar 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect 2 no. dwelling houses with services and domestic garages
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20260260
20 Jan 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling house with services and domestic garage at Knoc
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260058
2 Sept 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a new bungalow type dwelling with services
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251091
13 Aug 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect 2 no. dwelling
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20250997
23 May 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a new extension to the side of the existing serviced
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250602
7 May 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of an extension to the main hall and kitchen
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250525
20 Dec 2024N/a
Permission to erect 2 no. dwelling houses with services
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241616
19 Nov 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling house with services and domestic garage
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241432
20 Dec 2023Refused
Permission to erect a 5 no. dwelling house cluster development with services
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231559
1 Dec 2023N/a
Permission to erect a 5 no. dwelling house cluster development with services and
Permission, 5 homes · Wexford County Council, 20231443
24 Oct 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the contruction of a new single storey extension
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231272
18 Apr 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of the construction of a domestic garage and storage
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20230405
30 Aug 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a dwelling with services, domestic garage and
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211386
30 Aug 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a dwelling with services, domestic garage
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211385
6 Apr 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dormer bungalow with services, domestic garage and ancill
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200420
9 Mar 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a bungalow with services, domestic garage and ancillary work
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200280
25 Nov 2019Refused
PERMISSION TO ERECT A BUNGALOW WITH SERVICES, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ANCILLARY
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191560
13 Jun 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A BUNGALOW WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ANCILLARY
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180797
1 Jun 2018N/a
PERMISSION TO ERECT A BUNGALOW WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ANCILLARY
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180743
26 Jan 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIA
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180084
11 Dec 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF ALTERATIONS TO DWELLING ON SITE E AS A CHANGE TO THA
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20171629
5 Dec 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF ALTERATIONS TO DWELLING ON SITE, AS A CHANGE TO THAT
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20171593
20 Nov 2017Refused
PERMISSION TO ERECT A BUNGALOW WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ANCILLARY
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20171502
20 Oct 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR (1) RETENTION OF ALTERATIONS TO DWELLING ON SITE C AS A CHANGE TO
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20161162
The 25 most recent of 27 applications.
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knockavota.
Recorded monuments
- WX007-006 Barrow - unclassified
Description
Marked on the 1839 and 1940 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described as a tumulus on the latter. The townland name, Knockavota, means the hill the moat, and the locatin is on a gentle SW-facing slope. This is an oval grass and scrub-covered mound (dims. 26m NE-SW; 13m NW-SE; H 0.6m at N to 1.5m genearally) with slight traces of a fosse or quarry at the NW and SE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 15 March 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockavota.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Knockavota, 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3217 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Knockavota with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Knockavota · Cnoc an Mhóta
- Area
- 688,346 m² (68.83 ha, 170.09 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcavan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Gorey
- Electoral division
- Ballynestragh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,381 people lived in 418 households in the Ballynestragh electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 51% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Barnland, Clonsilla West, Killynann, Knockina, Tinnashinnagh
- Placenames
- Knockavota 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.