Knocknagillagh

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknagillagh, from 472 m² to 81,526 m² (8.15 ha, 20.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Knocknagillagh 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.

• 12 Feb 2025Conditional

  for (1) Retention Permission for as constructed revised location of dwelling house under construction (previous approval granted under 17/400); and (2) Planning Permission to complete unfinished dwelling house and associated site development works including installation of approved proprietary wastewater treatment system & percolation area and construction of new detached domestic garage

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560041

• 11 Apr 2018Conditional

  to retain (1) enlarged carpark area to northwest of existing church building (2) boundary fencing and associated kerbing works (3) vehicle safety barriers and drainage works (4) associated ancillary site works and structures

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 18153

• 20 Sept 2017Conditional

  to construct a new two storey dwelling house with detached domestic garage, form new vehicular site entrance onto existing laneway, and to install approved proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area, together with all associated site development works. Significant further information and revised drawings have been submitted

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 17400

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 Knocknagillagh.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knocknagillagh.

Architectural heritage

• St Dymphna's Roman Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1860–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Gothic Revival Roman Catholic church, built 1861, having four-bay nave, unfinished single-stage tower to north with engaged circular stair turret and single-bay connection, side porch to south, polygonal chancel with flanking lean-tos to nave gable. Extensive alterations and renovations in 1960 and in 1996, with addition of cry chapel to north of nave and cutting off of chancel as sacristy. Pitched replacement slate roof altered to oversail at eaves and verge with timber soffit, lead rolls to apse hips, pyramid slate roof to tower with louvred lucarnes, cast-iron rainwater goods. Replacement roughcast render to walls, decorative smooth rendered arch pattern in band below eaves and splayed smooth plinth. Rendered quoins to west gable, buttresses to east gable, stepped diagonal buttresses to tower. Stone plaque to west gable with inscription bearing dedication and date 1860. Lancet windowz with splayed surrounds to nave, west gable, and tower. Pointed arch windows to chancel and flanking entrances. Stained-glass windows and replacement timber sheeted external doors. Replacement coffered ceiling, flat over centre with gentle slope to sides. Chancel arch replaced by cantilevered hood above reredos. Recent reredos, ambo, altar, and side altars. Octagonal stone font at altar. Graveyard to east.

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 Knocknagillagh, 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 Knocknagillagh.

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 Knocknagillagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Knocknagillagh · Cnoc na gCoileach

Area

289,571 m² (28.96 ha, 71.55 acres)

Civil parish

Lavey, and its townlands

Barony

Loughtee Upper

Electoral division

Waterloo, the unit of the census

Census 2022

780 people lived in 273 households in the Waterloo electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carricknaveddan, Drumgora, Killygrogan, Lattagloghan

Placenames

Knocknagillagh 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.