Knockakishta

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockakishta, from 270 m² to 201,921 m² (20.19 ha, 49.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Knockakishta 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.

• 3 Mar 2021Conditional

  to construct a six bay shed which will consist of slatted area with slurry holding tank underneath, cubicles and all associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 21115

• 11 May 2018Conditional

  to erect single storey extension to side of existing dwelling and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 18194

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 Knockakishta.

Recorded monuments

• CV025-077 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. dims. 38m E-W; 35.5m N-S) enclosed by an earthen bank outside of which is a modern drainage trench and a spring well. Original entrance not recognisable. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

• CV025-078 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 29m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and a wide, deep fosse outside of which are traces of a possible counterscarp bank. Original entrance may have been at E. Interior slopes considerably from S-N. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Knockakishta with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Knockakishta

Area

498,784 m² (49.88 ha, 123.25 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmore, and its townlands

Barony

Loughtee Upper

Electoral division

Moynehall, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Moynehall electoral division: 1,739 people in 592 households; 81% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Acres, Corlurgan, Corraveaty, Killycannan, Pollabane, Thomascourt or Drumroosk

Placenames

Knockakishta 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.