Ballyknock Lower

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyknock Lower, from 60 m² to 213,436 m² (21.34 ha, 52.74 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 Ballyknock Lower 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.

• 17 Dec 2025Conditional

  for existing outbuilding as shed and PLANNING PERMISSION to construct a part storey and a half /part single storey extension to existing dwelling complete with open porch and alteration to existing fenestration , parking area and ancillary works

  Retention, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 25178

• 26 Oct 2023Conditional

  the construction of single-storey detached dwelling house, detached garage, treatment system, forming of a site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2360513

• 20 May 2022Conditional

  alterations to the existing house consisting of (1) the construction of a new storey and a half extension (2) a porch extension to the front (3) a single storey extension to the dining area and (4) alteration and addition of window and door opes to the existing house along with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 22433

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 Ballyknock Lower.

Recorded monuments

• WA031-002 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 30m) only on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated in pasture towards the top of a SE-facing slope, it is not visible at ground level. Rath (WA031-003001-) is c. 70m to the S. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 03-09-2009

• WA031-003001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated towards the top of a SE-facing slope. Circular scrub-covered area (diam. 34m NE-SW; 32.5m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3-4m; int. H 0.4m at SW (downslope) to 1.1m at NE; ext. H 0.8m at SW to 1.2m at NE), which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.8m) E-S, and an outer flat-bottomed fosse best preserved W-E (Wth of top 4.3-5.5m; Wth of base 2m; D 0.6-1m). There is no visible entrance. A souterrain site (WA031-003002-) is in the interior. The possible ringfort (WA031-002----) is c. 70m to the N. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore. Date of upload: 25th August, 2011.

• WA031-003002 Souterrain
  Description

  Situated within rath (WA031-003001-). This is Z-shaped sunken area (Wth 2.7-3m; D 0.6-0.8m) extending from the bank at S to the centre of the rath (L of sections from S: 3.5m; 4.55m; 4.2m; 5m). No structural stones are evident. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore. Date of upload: 25th August, 2011.

• WA031-005 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a S-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 38m NE-SW; 35m NW-SE) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 3-4m; H 0.4-0.8m) with an outer fosse (Wth of top 4.5-5m; Wth of base 2m). A slight berm (Wth c. 1.5m) separates the bank and fosse at S. An outer field bank (Wth 2m; H 0.7-0.9m) with stone-facing surrounds the site SW-N-SE, but this is just an earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; ext. H 0.9m) elsewhere. The entrance through the inner (Wth 2.4m) and outer (Wth 2.5m) banks is at SE, and the site is planted with coniferous trees. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore. Date of upload: 25th August, 2011.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballyknock Lower, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1858 (ZIP).

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 Ballyknock Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.

Name

Ballyknock Lower · Baile an Chnocaigh Íochtarach

Area

1,041,130 m² (104.11 ha, 257.27 acres)

Civil parish

Kilgobnet, and its townlands

Barony

Decies Without Drum

Electoral division

Colligan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

722 people lived in 258 households in the Colligan electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balleighteragh West, Ballycoe, Ballyknock Upper, Carrowncashlane, Gliddane Beg, Kilgobnet

Placenames

Ballyknock Lower 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.