Knavinstown

54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knavinstown, from 110 m² to 419,591 m² (41.96 ha, 103.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Knavinstown 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.

• 1 Jun 2026Conditional

  single storey extension to rear and side of existing house, internal modifications and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660571

• 9 Apr 2026N/a

  for single storey extension to rear and side of existing house, internal modifications and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660384

• 8 Apr 2026N/a

  single storey extension to rear and side of existing house, internal modifications and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660369

• 24 Jan 2026Conditional

  (A) the installation of an Oakstown BAF wastewater treatment plant with polishing filter percolation area and (B) upgrading of existing entrance to a new vehicular recessed entrance gate and piers and all associated site works. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of: Closing existing access and creating a new vehicular access

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660063

• 22 Dec 2025Conditional

  for (a) Dormer / Storey and a half house type as constructed, (b)Dormer style domestic garage, garden store and fuel store as constructed, (c) All associated site development works, all previously approved under Pl Ref No. 072433

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2561486

• 14 Apr 2025N/a

  for (a) Dormer / Storey and a half house type as constructed (b) Dormer style domestic garage, garden store and fuel store as constructed (c) All associated site development works All previously approved under Pl Ref No. 072433

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2560394

• 10 Jun 2024Conditional

  for a detached two storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, on site effluent treatment system & percolation area, surface water to soakaways, recessed entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2460527

• 3 Oct 2023Conditional

  for a change of house type to that granted under Pl. Ref 21 1093, the revised house type will be a two storey dwelling, discharging to an on site effluent treatment system & percolation area, surface water to soakaways, detached domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2360272

• 28 Aug 2023N/a

  for a change of house type to that granted under Pl. Ref 21 1093, the revised house type will be a two storey dwelling, discharging to an on site effluent treatment system & percolation area, surface water to soakaways, detached domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2360147

• 31 Jul 2023Conditional

  1) Pitch perimeter fencing, circa 1.2 metres in height, around the main pitch & training pitch 2) 4 no. Dug outs, one on each side line of the main pitch & training pitch 3) Ball stopping nets to one end of the main pitch & both ends of the training pitch 4) Walking track around both pitches & walk path linking both 5) Ball wall circa 6metre in height 6) Electrical score board at the main pitch 7) Extension to existing car parking area comprising of circa 30 no. additional parking spaces 8) Construction of a disabled access ramp, elevated path & steps to side & rear of existing club house to replace existing access ramps and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2360078

• 20 Jan 2023Refused

  is sought for a single storey dwelling, detached garage, on site effluent treatment system and percolation area, surface water to soakaways, accessed via a recessed entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2343

• 28 Oct 2022Refused

  a single storey dwelling, detached garage, on site effluent treatment system and percolation area, surface water to soakaways, accessed via a recessed entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 221294

• 27 Jul 2021Conditional

  the construction of a detached two storey dwelling, detached garage, foul water to on site effluent treatment system and percolation area, surface water to soakaways, recessed vehicular entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 211093

• 16 Mar 2018Conditional

  replacing the existing detached Montessori building with a single storey, detached, permanent, Montessori building of circa 90sqm, foul water to existing on site effluent treatment system, surface water to existing soakaways and all associated site works in the grounds

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 18287

• 8 Aug 2017Conditional

  for existing detached single storey stable block (consisting of two stables) as constructed, retention permission for single storey turf shed for domestic use as constructed and all associated site works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 17890

• 11 May 2017Refused

  replacing the existing detached Montessori building with a single storey, detached, permanent, Montessori building of circa 90sqm, foul water to existing on site effluent treatment system, surface water to existing soakaways and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 17536

• 20 Apr 2017N/a

  replacing the existing detached Montessori building with a single storey, detached, permanent, Montessori building of circa 90sq.m, foul water to existing on site effluent treatment system, surface water to existing soakaways and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 17440

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 Knavinstown.

Recorded monuments

• KD022-011 Church
  Description

  In the E-sector of a small roadside graveyard (KD022-011001-). Only the ivy clad, lower courses of portion of the E-gable wall survives (L 8m N-S; T 1.4m; H 1.1m) built of undressed fieldstones. Some 13.3m to the W, a drop in ground level (D1.8m) probably indicates the W-limits of the church, just beyond a modern graveplot, while two earthfast stones indicate the line of the S wall. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 05 December 2011

• KD022-011001 Graveyard
  Description

  On the roadside on a narrow terrace in the lower SW-slope of a moderately steep-sided hill. A possible tumbled coffin-rest (KD022-011002-) stands outside the entrance gate at SE, and the interior contains a much ruined church (KD022-011----) in the E sector. A small, slightly raised, oval area (diams. 32m N-S; 25m E-W; av. H 1m) is enclosed by a well-built, modern wall, built of thin stones. Burials cover the whole of the interior, the earliest legible inscriptions dating to the 18th century, and the graveyard is still in use. A small masonry pier or pillar (H 0.9m; L 0.5m; T 0.2m) attached to an entrance gate pier houses a small limestone stoup, concreted in place. The visible portion (dims. L 0.2m; Wth 0.2m; H 0.15m) contains a well-carved, water-filled, circular basin (diam. 0.13m; D 0.08m). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 05 December 2011

• KD022-011002 Coffin-resting stone
  Description

  On the roadside outside the entrance to a graveyard (KD022-011001-). A long, ivy clad and partially tumbled, stone built, rectangular structure (L 3m; Wth 1m; H 0.8m) may be the remains of a coffin rest. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 05 December 2011

• KD022-122 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated in grassland, on W facing slope of low ridge at base of Red Hill with Knavinstown church and graveyard 300m to W and Knavinstown House 190m to SW. Cropmark of large circular area (approx. diam. 58m) visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph and on earlier OSI aerial photographs. The field was ploughed around the winter of 2016 and skeletal material was identified in the plough soil in late September 2017. This material came from the interior of the cropmark enclosure which may indicate that the monument was a large barrow/ring-ditch. All that remains of this levelled monument is a slight rise of the ground which may indicate the curving line of the enclosure from SE-S only. The monument is not depicted on an any edition of the OS 6-inch map. However a field boundary running NE-SW depicted on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map and now levelled kicks out in a semi-circular fashion at the location of the cropmark. The bend in the field fence probably indicates that the field boundary may have formed part of the large circular enclosure. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 14 June 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knavinstown, 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 Knavinstown.

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 Knavinstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Knavinstown · Baile Uí Chnáimhín

Area

2,509,089 m² (250.91 ha, 620.01 acres)

Civil parish

Knavinstown, and its townlands

Barony

Offaly West

Electoral division

Lackagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

841 people lived in 265 households in the Lackagh electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Concealment, Coolier, Ellistown, Knocknagalliagh, Lackagh Beg, Mynagh

Placenames

Knavinstown 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.