Knockconan

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockconan, from 317 m² to 38,239 m² (3.82 ha, 9.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Knockconan 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.

• 27 Feb 2026Conditional

  permission for the development which will consist of the extension of an existing playing field/GAA field to facilitate a warmup area and all associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660059

• 6 Feb 2026N/a

  permission for the development will consist of the extension of an existing playing field/GAA field to facilitate a warmup area and all associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660032

• 28 Apr 2025Conditional

  Planning permission for i.) construction of standalone single storey classroom and sanitary accommodation, ii.) material change of use of ICT room to provide classroom and sanitary accommodation, together with elevational changes to the North Western Elevation, iii.) and all associated siteworks. Significant further Information received relates to submitted Water Protection checklist, EPA Site report, site assessment reports and revised drawings

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560173

• 19 Mar 2025N/a

  Planning permission for i.) construction of standalone single storey classroom and sanitary accommodation, ii.) material change of use of ICT room to provide classroom and sanitary accommodation, together with elevational changes to the North Western Elevation, iii.) and all associated siteworks

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560110

• 12 Mar 2025N/a

  permission for i.) construction of standalone single storey classroom and sanitary accommodation, ii.) material change of use of ICT room to provide classroom and sanitary accommodation, together with elevational changes to the North Western Elevation, iii.) and all associated siteworks; at Knockconan National School, Emyvale, Co.Monaghan

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560097

• 31 Jan 2024Conditional

  permission for development consisting of the extension and alteration of the applicants’ existing facility. The proposed extension comprises of multi-functional rooms for use by service users, staff accommodation, office space and storage areas. Planning permission is also sought for connection to the existing waste water treatment system and all ancillary site works.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2460036

• 21 Mar 2023Conditional

  Permission for development consisting of construction of 29 additional car parking spaces, including 1 no. electrical vehicle charging port and 1 no. accessible car parking space and all associated works significant further information relates to revised plans

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2390

• 19 May 2022Conditional

  permission for a development consisting of the repair and refurbishment of the Holy Family Church (which is a protected structure), demolition of the sacristy, and erection of a replacement sacristy and meeting room

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 22225

• 10 Mar 2022Conditional

  permission for development consisting of demolition of existing agricultural sheds and the erection of a replacement dry agricultural shed to serve farm holding and the erection of a domestic garage to serve the residential dwelling on the site and associated works. Significant further information received relates to revised development description.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 22107

• 28 Aug 2020Conditional

  permission for a development consisting of the erection of a part single storey, part two storey enterprise and community building comprising a commercial kitchen, teaching and conference spaces, office and hot desk accommodation, exhibition space, shop, multi-purpose hall and ancillary accommodation. Also included is a proposed access road from the public road, entrance gates and piers, car parking, boundary fencing, external landscaping, retaining structures, lamp standards, wastewater treatment plant with percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 20345

• 8 May 2020N/a

  permission to erect a new two-storey Church Building (670m2 approx.) to include a place of worship, a community hall, meeting rooms, an office, ancillary accommodation and wastewater treatment system, together with car parking and associated landscaping

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2087

• 22 Feb 2017Conditional

  Permission for development which will consist of an extension to the rear (south-east) elevation of the existing school building to include the provision of an additional classroom, toilet and store along with new fire escape door and all associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 1775

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 Knockconan.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockconan.

Architectural heritage

• Catholic Church of the Holy Family, church/chapel, 1815–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted barn-style rendered Catholic church, rebuilt 1904 to designs by E & J. Byrne Architects, incorporating earlier church, built 1819-20 and remodelled 1829, with bell tower added 1844. Consisting of five bays, recent sacristy to south-west, bell tower to centre of west elevation. Pitched slate roof, perforated blue/black terracotta ridge tiles, painted stone verges and cross finials to all gable apexes, limestone bracket course and moulded cast?iron gutters, and with bitumen flat roof to sacristy. Cut, coursed and snecked limestone gabled bell tower with pyramidal spire and crocked finials to all gables and spire. Painted ruled-and-lined rendered walls, with stepped buttresses, diagonal to corners and lateral between bays. Sandstone plaque to south (rear) gable inscribed with crisply serifed letters 'Erected by Very Rev. C McDermott P. O. Errigal Truagh 1820'. Round-headed niche with statue in wall-head half dormer. Square-plan bell tower with belfry stage pierced with pointed-arch aperture containing single bronze bell. Pointed-arch doorway with recent timber battened double-leaf door with stop-ended edge-roll moulding, painted and gilded fresco of Holy Family to tympanum, with block label-ended hood-moulding over. Set back from road by terraced rubble limestone boundary wall, with milled steel gates hinged to square gate posts. Situated in sloping graveyard site rising to west, with mature trees to east and west. On roadside to west of central footpath, a substantial Celtic High Cross-style memorial with inscription 'Erected / by the / Irish Nationalists of Glasgow / in Memory of / James Simpson, / whose labours amongst them / on behalf of Faith and Fatherland / are gratefully remembered in the / Land of His Adoption. / Died / September 13th 1894, Aged 45 Years. / R. I. P.' Interior remodelled c.1990. Original canted stained and varnished timber ceiling with timber ribs and purlins, supported on principal rafters and collars. Nap-rendered walls and recent tiled floors with free-standing recent pine benches flanking central aisle with side aisles running along the walls. Recent timber glazed enclosed vestibule with statues over to entrance, four-stepped carpeted dais with recent altar and lectern, and recent timber sheeted altar wall panelling.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Knockconan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Knockconan · Cnoc Coinín

Area

77,405 m² (7.74 ha, 19.13 acres)

Civil parish

Errigal Trough, and its townlands

Barony

Trough

Electoral division

Anketell Grove, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Anketell Grove electoral division: 1,278 people in 400 households; 86% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drumcondra, Killeanly, Mullabryan

Placenames

Knockconan 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.