Knockbrack

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockbrack, from 214 m² to 100,791 m² (10.08 ha, 24.91 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 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.

• 12 Mar 2025Conditional

  a car display/show room and storage shed along with revised site boundaries

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560199

• 10 Mar 2025N/a

  milking parlour facility and holding area extension to existing slatted shed and tank previous planning ref 06510286

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560191

• 21 Dec 2023Conditional

  a) the alterations to existing single storey detached dwelling, b) new single storey extensions to southwest/northwest & northeast elevation of existing dwelling, c) alterations/extension of existing percolation area with new percolation area to extend existing, d) and all associated site works/services

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2361023

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

• TN034-047 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a natural rise of ground in an upland area with extensive views. An impressive hilltop ringfort consisting of a raised circular area (diam. 35m approx.) enclosed by a wide, flat-topped earth and stone bank (Wth 3-4m; int. H 0.7-1.5m; ext. H 3-4.5m) with a wide, external, waterlogged fosse (Wth 3.5m; D 1m). Possible entrance gap (Wth. 5m) at SE. Evidence of internal stone revetment of the inner face of the bank is best visible at NE. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN034-048 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a low gentle rise of ground in an upland area with extensive views. A raised circular area (diam. 38m N-S) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2.2m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.7m) with traces of a shallow external fosse. The bank is mainly reduced to a scarp and there is no entrance feature visible. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

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 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 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. Tipperary.

Name

Knockbrack · An Cnoc Breac

Area

442,925 m² (44.29 ha, 109.45 acres)

Civil parish

Glenkeen, and its townlands

Barony

Kilnamanagh Upper

Electoral division

Borrisoleigh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,257 people lived in 487 households in the Borrisoleigh electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castlequarter, Coolataggle, Fishmoyne, Summerhill

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.