Knockhowlin

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockhowlin, from 1,086 m² to 479,193 m² (47.92 ha, 118.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Knockhowlin 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Knockhowlin 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 the townland of Knockhowlin.

Recorded monuments

• WX047-064 Standing stone
  Description

  Marked only on the 1940 ed. of the OS 6 inch map where it is described as a ‘Gallán’. It is situated in a low-lying landscape just on the S side of an E-W road but its precise location is not known. It has been removed but a photograph (St Peter's Annual 1917, 31) shows a large standing stone that is narrower at the base than c. 1m over the ground. Measurements taken in 1940 are ‘2 feet 6 inches by 3 feet at the base (dims 0.75m x 0.9m), 2 feet 9 inches by 2 feet 6 inches (0.85m x 0.75m) at the top and 6 feet, 6 inches high (H c. 2m)’ OSFM). 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: 16 October, 2013

• WX047-137 Field system
  Description

  Located on a low-lying, gently undulating landscape. An area of c. 60 acres (c. 22 ha) has the cropmarks of numerous ditches visible on aerial photographs (MM (43) 2-5, 27-32) and on digital aerial photographs (WX047-137_1 to _4). Most of the ditches are single features and many can be equated with field banks marked on the 1837 and 1940 eds of the OS 6-inch map, or run parallel with them. They create rectangular fields (dims c. 150m x c. 30-40m), and the fields relate directly to the cropmark of a N-S roadway that is marked on the 1839 ed. of the map and which still survives as a farm lane at its S end between Sigginstown and Walshestown. The fields are therefore probably 18th century in date, but amongst the fields there are five enclosures that do not relate to the fields and pre-date them. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 16 October, 2013

• WX047-137002 Enclosure
  Description

  Located on a slight rise in a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 80m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on aerial photographs (MM (43) 2-5, 27-32) and on digital aerial photographs (WX047-137_1 to _4). It is contemporary with rath (WX047-137003-) as its fosse is attached to the fosse of the rath at NE. No entrance is visible and it was probably a field utilising the slightly higher ground. Enclosure (WX047-137001-) is c. 70m to the SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 16 October, 2013

• WX047-137003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a low-lying, gently undulating landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30-35m) defined by a single fosse feature (Wth c. 3-5m) is visible on aerial photographs (MM (43) 2-5, 27-32) and digital aerial photographs (WX047-137_1 to _4). There are gaps at E and NW. The enclosure (WX047-137002-) is attached to the SW and appears to be contemporary as the defining fosse of the enclosure is connected to the fosse of the rath at SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 16 October

• WX048-130001 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a fairly level landscape with a small N-S stream c. 175m to the E. The cropmark of a small circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on aerial photographs (ASIAP (4) 11, 12) and digital aerial photographs (WX048-130_1, _4, _6) taken in 2006. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 8 January, 2014

• WX048-130002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a fairly level landscape with a small N-S stream c. 130m to the E. The cropmark of a small circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on aerial photograph (ASIAP (4) 13) and digital aerial photographs (WX048-130_2, _3, _4, _6) taken in 2006. It is also visible on the OSi series of aerial photographs (2000). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 8 January, 2014

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockhowlin.

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

At the centre of the townland of Knockhowlin, 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 Knockhowlin.

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.

No address of the register names Knockhowlin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Knockhowlin · Cnoc Húilín

Area

486,378 m² (48.64 ha, 120.19 acres)

Civil parish

Ishartmon, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

Tomhaggard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

550 people lived in 205 households in the Tomhaggard electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyboher, Ballyboy, Coddstown Great, Harveystown, Paradise, Paradise Little, Ring, Sigginstown, Walshestown

Placenames

Knockhowlin 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.