Knockbaun
Knockbaun is a townland in the civil parish of Castleellis, barony of Ballaghkeen South, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is An Cnoc Bán.
Parcel 386893
- Area
- 133,358 m² (13.34 ha, 32.95 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 247 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
- Knockbaun
Planning applications on this parcel
22 Dec 2023Granted (conditional)
Retention of the following, a) change of site boundaries
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20231582
27 Oct 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a serviced dwelling house
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231302
16 Aug 2022Refused
Permission for the erection of a serviced dwelling house and associated site
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20221094
13 Jan 2020Granted (conditional)
RETENTION OF THE FOLLOWING (1) ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING IN A REVISED POS
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20200018
5 Sept 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING, GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIA
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20171196
31 Aug 2017N/a
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTUCTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING, GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIAT
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20171178
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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3162 (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
- 28.4 ha
- 70 acres
- Land parcels
- 17
- registered freehold, median 4,093 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockbaun, from 44 m² to 133,358 m² (13.34 ha, 32.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Knockbaun 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
18 Feb 2026Refused
Permission for the development consisting of the
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260195
19 Sept 2025Refused
Permission for a single house dwelling
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251189
28 Jul 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a fully serviced single storey
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250928
22 Dec 2023Granted (conditional)
Retention of the following, a) change of site boundaries
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20231582
27 Oct 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a serviced dwelling house
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231302
16 Aug 2022Refused
Permission for the erection of a serviced dwelling house and associated site
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20221094
30 Mar 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of extension to dwelling (sunroom)
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210460
13 Jan 2020Granted (conditional)
RETENTION OF THE FOLLOWING (1) ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING IN A REVISED POS
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20200018
5 Sept 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING, GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIA
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20171196
31 Aug 2017N/a
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTUCTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING, GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIAT
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20171178
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 Knockbaun.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockbaun.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockbaun.
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 Knockbaun, 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_3162 (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 Knockbaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Knockbaun · An Cnoc Bán
- Area
- 283,769 m² (28.38 ha, 70.12 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castleellis, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen South
- Electoral division
- Castle Ellis, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,284 people lived in 454 households in the Castle Ellis electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 21% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Crosshue, Garryvadden Lower, Garryvadden Upper, Inch
- Placenames
- Knockbaun 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.