Knockbrandon Lower

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockbrandon Lower, from 541 m² to 207,601 m² (20.76 ha, 51.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Lower 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.

• 21 Jan 2025Granted (conditional)

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

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20250061

• 21 Jan 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect an agricultural storage shed with ancillary works

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250059

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 Lower.

Recorded monuments

• WX006-026 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as an embanked enlosure (ext. diam. c. 40-45m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and faintly as a fragment of a bank at N on the 1940 ed. It is situated on a slight shelf overlooking a deep valley that opens out to the E, the bottom of which is c. 150m to the S. There are hilltops c. 370m to the NW and c. 900m to the S. There is a slightly raised grass-covered area (diam. c. 30m; H 0.3m). 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

• WX006-074 Burnt mound
  Description

  Situated in a broad valley at the headwaters of the River Bann with the W-E stream c. 30m to the N. Although it is listed by Ranson (1945, 54) it was not marked on the 1940 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and nothing is visible at ground level in reclaimed pasture. 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

• WX006-083001 Ritual site - pond
  Description

  Situated in a shallow basin at the source of the W-E River Lask, with a slight hill c. 800m to the E and higher hills c. 2km to the NW in Co. Wicklow. This is a circular area (diam. c. 10m) defined by a wide water-logged fosse (Wth c. 10m) and an outer earth and stone bank (Wth 5m; ext. H 0.4m). There is a break in the bank (Wth 5m) at SE (max. ext. diam, c. 35m). Pond (WX006-083002-) c. 30m to the NE. It is now within a coniferous wood. 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: 2 March, 2012

• WX006-083002 Ritual site - pond
  Description

  Situated in a shallow basin at the source of the W-E River Lask, with a slight hill c. 800m to the E and higher hills c. 2km to the NW in Co. Wicklow. This is a circular area (diam. c. 8m) surrounded by a water-logged fosse (Wth c. 10m) and an outer earth and stone bank (Wth 4.5m; ext. H 0.3m). There is a break in the bank (Wth 6m) at SE (max. ext. diam. c. 35m). Pond (WX006-083001-) is c. 30m to the SW and Pond (WX006-083003-) is c. 30m to the NE. It is in a coniferous wood. 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: 2 March, 2012

• WX006-083003 Ritual site - pond
  Description

  Situated in a shallow basin at the source of the W-E River Lask, with a slight hill c. 800m to the E and higher hills c. 2km to the NW in Co. Wicklow. This is a circular area (diam. c. 10m) surrounded by a waterlogged fosse (Wth c. 8-10m; D c. 0.7-0.95m) and outer earthen and stone bank (Wth 4.5m; ext. H 0.4m). There is a break in bank (Wth 5m) at SSE (max. ext. diam. c. 35m). Pond (WX006-083002-) is c. 30m to the SW and barrow (WX006-083004-) is c. 30m to the E. 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: 26 September, 2012

• WX006-083004 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Situated in a shallow basin at the source of the W-E River Lask, with a slight hill c. 800m to the E and higher hills c. 2km to the NW in Co. Wicklow. This is a circular area (diam. 8.2m) surrounded by a wet fosse (Wth 4.5–5.8m; D 0.8m) and an outer earthen bank (Wth 1.5–2m). It is truncated by a NW-SE field bank at SW (max. ext. diam. 21.5m). Pond (WX006-083003-) is c. 30m to the SW. It is now in a coniferous wood. 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: 2 March, 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 Lower, 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

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

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

Name

Knockbrandon Lower · Cnoc Brandán Íochtarach

Area

1,422,074 m² (142.21 ha, 351.4 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, Baltyfarrell, Coolthawn, Drummond, Knockbrandon Upper, Knockshaunfin, Motabower

Placenames

Knockbrandon Lower 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.