Knocks

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocks, from 364 m² to 53,976 m² (5.4 ha, 13.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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 Knocks 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.

• 30 Aug 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the proposed renovation of a derelict dwelling, demolition of

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241050

• 19 Aug 2024N/a

  Permission for the proposed renovation of a derelict dwelling and for the

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240988

• 29 Aug 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house and domestic

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20231012

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 Knocks.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knocks.

Architectural heritage

• Mount Eaton, farm house, 1830–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan with two-bay two-storey side elevations; single-bay (single-bay deep) two-storey lean-to central return (south). Sold, 1879. Occupied, 1911. Sold, 1968. Hipped slate roof on a U-shaped plan centred on lean-to slate roof (south) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks on axis with ridge having stepped capping supporting terracotta octagonal pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on timber box eaves retaining cast-iron hoppers and downpipes. Roughcast walls bellcast over rendered plinth. Hipped segmental-headed central door opening approached by flight of three cut-granite steps with timber mullions supporting timber transom, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having sidelights below overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing eight-over-eight timber sash windows without horns. Interior including (ground floor): central entrance hall with egg-and-dart-detailed decorative plasterwork cornice to ceiling centred on "Acanthus"-detailed ceiling rose; round- or segmental-headed opening into staircase hall with carved timber Classical-style surround framing fanlight; staircase hall (south) retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, staircase on a dog leg plan with timber balusters supporting carved timber banister, and carved timber surrounds to door openings to landing framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. 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 Knocks, about 1 in 20 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Knocks · Na Cnoic

Area

445,550 m² (44.56 ha, 110.1 acres)

Civil parish

Tomhaggard, and its townlands

Barony

Bargy

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

Bargy, Littletown, Moortown Little, Randalstown, Tenacre, Tomhaggard

Placenames

Knocks 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.