Knockagh

64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockagh, from 182 m² to 326,266 m² (32.63 ha, 80.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Knockagh 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 May 2024Conditional

  a new two storey dwelling, a single storey detached garage, a proposed wastewater treatment system with percolation area, a new site entrance and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 24106

• 29 Nov 2023Conditional

  (i) an existing garage attached to the side of our existing dwelling as well as Planning Permission for (ii) an extension to the rear of our dwelling & (iii) to change the use of the existing garage attached to the side of the existing dwelling into residential use - and all associated site development works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2360949

• 1 Jul 2022Conditional

  dwelling, garage, effluent treatment system, entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2260340

• 8 Dec 2020N/a

  a proposed new two storey dwelling, single storey detached garage, proposed wastewater treatment system with percolation area, new site entrance and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 201464

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 Knockagh.

Recorded monuments

• TS076-037001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On summit of hill in generally undulating terrain, under pasture. An enclosure (TS076-037002-) is located immediately downslope to the S. According to the OS Letters 'it was the residence of Fearchios Mac Coman, the poet, who at the instigation of Cormac Mac Art, murdered Lughaidh Mac Con, King de facto of Ireland, who reigned 30 years. This place was anciently called Ard-na-nGeimhleach, i.e., altitudo vinculorum. When visited c. 1840 by the OS it was described as 'much injured…The circumvallation around it is nearly defaced...lime kiln was placed in extremity at northeast side; the side is still visible. A small portion remains on south west side in which was placed a lime kiln on the inside, as may be concluded from the appearance of the spot' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 137-8). Ringfort levelled, however, still visible as raised, roughly circular area (diam. 37m N-S; 34.5m E-W). The OS Letters (ibid.) mention a bank surviving in the SE quadrant which is 'about four feet [1.2m] average height and eight feet [2.4m] in breadth at top in its present state'. The diameter is given as being about 'seventy paces = two hundred and ten feet [64m], the trench running around the foot (base) of the mound between it and the circumvallation being included' (ibid.), suggesting there was an external fosse. Townland boundary runs NE-SW along N quadrant, it has stone revetment on N face. According to OS 6-inch map the bank ran into the townland boundary (Wth 5m base; H above fosse 0.87m; H above ext. 1.57m) which curves out to respect or incorporate the site. However, the raised area (Wth 8m; H above fosse 0.42m; fosse Wth 9m) falls short of this (diam. N-S to townland boundary is c. 47m), possibly suggesting that the site was bivallate. Ploughed-out bank forms wide bank/scarp (Wth 14.6m; H above int. 0.41m; H above fosse 0.67m) with wide external fosse (Wth 5.2m), particularly evident in E quadrant where there is also an indication of an outer, broad bank (Wth 14.4m; H above fosse 0.32m; H above ext. 0.33m). Edge of ringfort in W quadrant is not very clear and S quadrant is quite reduced. Field boundary S of ringfort has been removed. Bank survives in townland boundary. Bank peters out when it does not correspond with the monument. Appears to be a break in fosse in E quadrant with slight causeway. According to Power (1908, 26) a house stood 'till recently within the lios'. House not indicated on 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map. However, the OS Letters (ibid) mentions that the 'surface of the ground presents to view, as it were, the sites of some rectangular edifices, at least of two in number, which were, it would appear the foundations, built of stone'. This were probably the remains of the houses referred to by Power. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 24 September 2014

• TS076-037002 Enclosure
  Description

  Off crest of hill, on SW-facing slope. A ringfort (TS076-037001-) is immediately upslope to the N. Enclosure identified on aerial photograph (S.782/314). It is defined by a low bank in the NE quadrant (Wth 7m; H above int. 0.29m; H above ext. 0.12m) and scarp in the SE and SW quadrants (Wth c. 7m). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 24 September 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 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 Knockagh.

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 Knockagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Knockagh · An Chnocach

Area

1,102,725 m² (110.27 ha, 272.49 acres)

Civil parish

Caher, and its townlands

Barony

Iffa and Offa West

Electoral division

Mortlestown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Mortlestown electoral division: 1,689 people in 568 households; 63% of households own their home; 53% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballingeary East, Ballylegan, Edenmore, Husseystown, Knockmorris, Loughlohery, Rathmore

Placenames

Knockagh 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.