Knockardagannon North

96 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockardagannon North, from 54 m² to 236,929 m² (23.69 ha, 58.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 39 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 Knockardagannon North 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.

• 8 May 2026Conditional

  construct an extension to existing agricultural machinery shed at existing farm yard

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2630

• 5 May 2026N/a

  Construct an extension to existing agricultural machinery shed at existing farm yard

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2627

• 19 Aug 2025N/a

  construct a single storey dwelling house, incorporating granny flat accommodation, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, new entrance and all associated and ancillary site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2560505

• 24 Jul 2025N/a

  construct a single storey dwelling house, incorporating granny flat accommodation, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, new entrance and all associated and ancillary site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560456

• 22 Apr 2025Conditional

  Retain Domestic Garage and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560230

• 12 Feb 2025Conditional

  construct 2 no.underground slurry tanks at existing farmyard

  Permission · Laois County Council, 258

• 29 Apr 2024Conditional

  construct 2 no. underground slurry tanks at existing farmyard

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2459

• 31 May 2018Conditional

  erect a 30m multi-user lattice structure carrying telecommunications and ancillary equipment together with associated exchange containers enclosed within compound fencing with access off and existing track. The development will accommodate eir Mobile and Imagine Broadband to enable the provision of enhanced mobile services and Next Generation broadband in the area and also provide for future Third Party Operations as required

  Permission · Laois County Council, 18336

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 Knockardagannon North.

Recorded monuments

• LA027-021 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on high ground. A circular area (diam c. 45m), defined by a low earthen bank (Wth c. 1.5m, max. H c. 0.5m) and a stone wall at SW. No other visible surface remains. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knockardagannon North, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Knockardagannon North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Knockardagannon North · Cnoc Ard Mhic Fhionnáin Thuaidh

Area

2,580,330 m² (258.03 ha, 637.61 acres)

Civil parish

Rathdowney, and its townlands

Barony

Clandonagh

Electoral division

Errill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

429 people lived in 153 households in the Errill electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cullahill (Co. Tipperary), Errill, Knockahaw, Knockardagannon South, Monamonra

Placenames

Knockardagannon North 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.