Knockina
Knockina is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcavan, barony of Gorey, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Cnoc an Ádha.
Parcel 379454
- Area
- 614 m²
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 121 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
- Knockina
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 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 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.
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
- 96.9 ha
- 239 acres
- Land parcels
- 54
- registered freehold, median 1,537 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 23
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockina, from 58 m² to 356,479 m² (35.65 ha, 88.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 40 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 Knockina 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
21 Jul 2026N/a
Permission for retention of the extension and renovation of my existing domestic
Retention, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20260968
7 Apr 2026Refused
Permission for retention of the extension and renovation of existing domestic
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20260413
3 Mar 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect 2 no. dwelling houses with services and domestic garages
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20260260
25 Nov 2025Refused
Permission for retention of the extension and renovation of existing domestic
Retention, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20251544
13 Aug 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect 2 no. dwelling
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20250997
15 Apr 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of an unauthorised commercial storage shed with ancilla
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250441
15 Apr 2025Refused
Permission for retention of the extension and renovation of existing domestic
Retention, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20250442
20 Dec 2024N/a
Permission to erect 2 no. dwelling houses with services
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241616
14 Mar 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of alterations to dwelling house previously approved
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240281
27 Feb 2024Refused
Permission for retention of an unauthorised storage building for uses
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240213
15 Aug 2023N/a
Permission for retention of alterations to dwelling house previously approved
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20230937
11 Oct 2022Refused
Permission for retention of an unauthorised storage building for use ancillary
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20221340
6 Sept 2022Refused
Permission for retention of the following works: a) The extension and renovation
Retention, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20221197
11 Oct 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of alterations to dwelling house previously approved un
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20211575
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
22 Feb 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a two storey extension to the front, side and
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210248
9 Oct 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage and all
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20201160
11 Sept 2019Refused
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A DWELLING AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191261
27 Jun 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF EXISTING DOMESTIC STORAGE BUILDING AT THE REAR OF
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20190898
2 Aug 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF A DWELLING AND DOMESTIC GARAGE, WITH ALL ASSOCIATED
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20181054
31 Oct 2017Refused
PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF A DWELLING AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20171401
20 Feb 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170181
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 Knockina.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockina.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockina.
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 Knockina, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3241 (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 Knockina with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Knockina · Cnoc an Ádha
- Area
- 968,934 m² (96.89 ha, 239.43 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
- Ask, Ballytegan, Ballyteganpark, Clonsilla East, Clonsilla West, Killynann, Knockavota
- Placenames
- Knockina 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.