Knockatallan
Knockatallan is a townland in the civil parish of Tedavnet, barony of Monaghan, Co. Monaghan. Its name in Irish is Cnoc an tSalainn.
Parcel 321031
- Area
- 3,310 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- 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
- Knockatallan
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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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
- 165.1 ha
- 408 acres
- Land parcels
- 88
- registered freehold, median 2,991 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
88 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockatallan, from 11 m² to 146,143 m² (14.61 ha, 36.11 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 Knockatallan 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
11 Sept 2026N/a
permission to Demolish 1 No. existing poultry house (and ancillary structures) and to construct 1 No. poultry house and 1 No. ancillary store together with all ancillary structures (to include meal storage bin(s) and soiled water tank(s)) and site works A Natura Impact Statement (N.I.S.) will be submitted with this planning application
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660388
3 Sept 2025Conditional
permission to erect a one and a half storey dwelling house, insert a filter unit and percolation area and exit on to public road by new entrance
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2570
24 Nov 2023Refused
permission to erect a one and a half storey dwelling house, insert a filter unit and percolation area and exit on to public road by new entrance
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 23235
29 Mar 2023Conditional
permission to 1. Demolish existing single storey crèche building & decommission existing effluent treatment system & polishing filter 2. Remove off site single storey prefabricated unit 3. Construct proposed new single storey crèche / childcare facility containing reception area, 2 No. pre-school rooms, one with sleep room & toddler changing area, 1 No. crèche room with ancillary sleep room, kitchen & changing area, 1 No. after school room, laundry, sensory room, managers office, kitchen, utility room, plant room, children's toilets, staff room, staff toilets, ancillary external signage and also provision of requisite onsite car parking and set down area, outdoor play areas, perimeter fencing, proposed new proprietary wastewater treatment unit & polishing filter and all associated site development works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2396
17 Dec 2021Conditional
retention to (1) retain on a temporary basis single storey prefabricated unit containing kitchen, toilets and creche/childcare room and connection into existing on site waste water treatment unit (2) retain as constructed existing single storey building consisting of creche/childcare room, toilets and office from previous grant of permission P10/491 and all associated site development works
Retention · Monaghan County Council, 21690
9 Feb 2021Conditional
permission for the erection of a two storey dwelling house with single storey element, garage, new entrance piers and gates, access lane, connection to local authority group sewage treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2157
19 May 2017N/a
permission to extend existing playgroup building to provide new classroom, kitchen, store and toilets and use existing entrance on to public road
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 17241
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
- Special Protection Area: Slieve Beagh SPA 004167
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockatallan.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockatallan.
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 Knockatallan, 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knockatallan.
- 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 Knockatallan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Knockatallan · Cnoc an tSalainn
- Area
- 1,651,209 m² (165.12 ha, 408.02 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tedavnet, and its townlands
- Barony
- Monaghan
- Electoral division
- Sheskin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 683 people lived in 232 households in the Sheskin electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Acres, Carnquill, Corlat, Knockacullion, Knocknageeha, Milligan, Sheskin, Straclevan
- Placenames
- Knockatallan 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.