Knockbrack

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockbrack, from 72 m² to 108,393 m² (10.84 ha, 26.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Knockbrack 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.

• 13 Oct 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission to construct a dwellinghouse with services, domestic garage

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231221

• 15 May 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a dwelling house with services and domestic garage.

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230521

• 30 Mar 2023Refused

  Permission to construct a dwellinghouse with services, domestic garage and all

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230321

• 18 Jan 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission to (1) Construct milking parlour, collecting yard and cattle crush an

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210056

• 20 Apr 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180510

• 13 Dec 2017Refused

  PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20171636

• 30 Nov 2017N/a

  PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20171566

• 3 Apr 2017Refused

  PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170397

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 Knockbrack.

Recorded monuments

• WX002-066 Cist
  Description

  Situated in the valley of a N-S section the Blackwater Stream, close to its source and with the stream c. 150m to the NE. A cist constructed of siltstone slabs (dims. 0.9m x 0.6m) with a stone floor was uncovered in ploughing during 1995, when it was excavated by the NMI. It contained a tripartite Bowl Food Vessel, but there was no evidence of a burial deposit. (Cahill 1995, 88, No. 276; Cahill and Sikora 2011, vol. 1, 594-6) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 14 March, 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knockbrack, 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

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

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

Name

Knockbrack · An Cnoc Breac

Area

700,867 m² (70.09 ha, 173.19 acres)

Civil parish

Kilnahue, 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

Annagh Upper, Annaghhill, Ballyloughlin, Ballylusk, Connahill, Knocknagapple

Placenames

Knockbrack 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.