Knockbrandon Upper

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockbrandon Upper, from 227 m² to 423,203 m² (42.32 ha, 104.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Knockbrandon Upper 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.

• 29 Sept 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the following works: 1) to erect a two

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251227

• 10 Jun 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect an extension to the side of dwelling and all associated site

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20240649

• 31 May 2024Refused

  Permission for a two storey extension to existing property consisting of

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240623

• 1 Mar 2024N/a

  Permission for a two storey extension to existing property

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240229

• 22 Nov 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a two-storey dwelling with services, domestic garage and

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211812

• 14 Jun 2021N/a

  Permission to erect a two storey dwelling with services, domestic garage and anc

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210929

• 18 Mar 2021Refused

  Permission for a two storey extension to existing property consisting of a livin

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210382

• 8 May 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for proposed slatted cattle shed to include robotic milking unit, dai

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200492

• 10 Jun 2019Granted (conditional)

  RETENTION PERMISSION FOR (1) ALTERATIONS TO THE DESIGN OF EXTENSION PREVIOUSLY

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20190790

• 25 Sept 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20171269

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 Knockbrandon Upper.

Recorded monuments

• WX006-027 Mass-rock
  Description

  Marked only on the 1940 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated in a scrub-covered fold on the steep N-facing slope of a deep W-E valley. There is a small arm-chair arrangement of stones and bedrock creating a shelf (Wth 0.8m; D 0.7m) which was known locally as a place where Mass was celebrated (OSFM 1940). 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: 21 November, 2012

• WX006-028 Burial ground
  Description

  Described as Kilcorkey Grave Yard on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as Kilcorkey Burial Ground on the 1940 ed. of the map. It is situated towards the bottom of the NE-facing slope of Ballyconran Hill. This is a subcircular, grass-covered area (dims 40m E–W; 37m N–S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.4-0.6m; ext. H 0.7-1.5m) with external stone cladding. There are some eighteenth- and nineteenth-century graves in the interior but there is no indication of a church. 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: 1 March 2012

• WX006-078 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located just off the crest of an E-facing slope overlooking the valley of the N-S Lask River, with the stream c. 1km to the E and c. 120m lower. This is a a raised D-shaped and grass-covered area (dims 25m NE-SW; 12m NW-SE; H 0.8-1m) in Clonamona Upper cut by the NE-SW field bank and townland boundary with Knockbrandon Upper at the NW. It has no visible fosse or entrance, and is not visible NW of the boundary. 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: 1March, 2012

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1700–1839 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1839, on a rectangular plan. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Sold, 1966. Resold, 1985. Renovated, ----. Hipped slate roof with clay or terracotta ridge tiles, paired cement rendered central chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Replacement cement rendered battered walls bellcast over rendered plinth. Hipped segmental-headed central door opening with timber mullions on cut-granite step threshold supporting timber transom, and concealed dressings framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled door having sidelights below fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing six-over-six timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds.

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 Knockbrandon Upper, 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

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

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 Knockbrandon Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Knockbrandon Upper · Cnoc Brandán Uachtarach

Area

1,449,581 m² (144.96 ha, 358.2 acres)

Civil parish

Rossminoge, and its townlands

Barony

Gorey

Electoral division

Monaseed, the unit of the census

Census 2022

725 people lived in 226 households in the Monaseed electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyconran, Clonamona Upper, Coolthawn, Craan Lower, Craanhill, Knockbrandon Lower, Millquarter

Placenames

Knockbrandon Upper 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.