Knocksink

41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocksink, from 40 m² to 8,017 m² (0.8 ha, 1.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Bray Municipal District Local Area Plan 2018, Wicklow · 39 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Town Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Bray Municipal District Local Area Plan 2018, Wicklow · 9 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4Active Open Space (Active open space)
  Bray Municipal District Local Area Plan 2018, Wicklow · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community & Education (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Bray Municipal District Local Area Plan 2018, Wicklow · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Passive Open Space (Open space, park)
  Bray Municipal District Local Area Plan 2018, Wicklow · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N6Public Utility (Other networks and basic infrastructure/utilities uses)
  Bray Municipal District Local Area Plan 2018, Wicklow · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 13 Aug 2026N/a

  change of use to add alcohol off licence sales to the existing retail shop

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660720

• 11 Aug 2026N/a

  change of use to add alcohol off licence sales to the existing retail shop

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660711

• 6 Aug 2026N/a

  change of use to add alcohol off licence sales to the existing retail shop

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660697

• 21 Jul 2026Conditional

  single storey, flat-roofed Extension to the side, comprising a utility room and storage area with partial raising of the roadside boundary wall

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660644

• 5 Jun 2026Conditional

  the demolition of existing single-storey rear extensions and the construction of a new single-storey rear extension; conversion of the existing car port at the front of the dwelling and alterations and renovations to the existing house, construction of new entrance piers and gates to the vehicular entrance; together with all associated site development works, drainage works, landscaping, and modifications to the existing driveway and site access arrangements necessary to facilitate the proposed development

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660499

• 16 Dec 2025Conditional

  section 254 licence - scaffolding

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 25348

• 10 Nov 2025Conditional

  residential development of 15 no. houses (3 no. 2-beds, 11 no. 3-beds and 1 no. 4 bed) ranging in height from 2-3 storeys. Provision of car and cycle parking (including provision for the existing hotel premises), and bin storage areas. The development will be accessed via the established vehicular access to the R117/Monastery Road and will include refurbishment of the existing boundary wall and provision of a splayed arrangement to improve visibility. Provision of pedestrian accesses from the street. All associated site development and enabling works, removal of existing water pump house building and other temporary structures, proposed boundary treatments, landscaping, and site services to facilitate the development

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560908

• 21 Oct 2025Conditional

  section 254 licence - scaffolding

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 25301

• 5 Sept 2025Conditional

  sub-division of site and the construction of a 141 sq.m. detached part single, part two-storey dwelling, together with parking area and associated site works. The new house will be served by the existing site entrance and right of way from the L1011. The works include provision of a new driveway and parking area for the existing house, accessed from the existing site entrance

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560702

• 2 Apr 2025N/a

  the following extension and alterations to existing 44 sq.m dwelling :(1). Demolition of existing extension to rear measuring 15.sq.m. (2.)The construction of a split level two storey extension to rear of existing dwelling measuring circa 80 sq.m (3) Modifications and alterations to existing elevations and plans of existing dwelling to accommodate new design (4) New proposed boundary treatment to rear of property and all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560236

• 19 Feb 2025Conditional

  a) relocation of position of vehicular site entrance; b) c. 6m2 single storey extension to the side of dwelling; c) associated site services and amendments to boundary treatments

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560103

• 14 Feb 2024Conditional

  the extension of an existing porch to the north side (6.4sqm total new porch), and installation of 2.39m high gated pillars at the eastern entrance to the site of the existing dwelling

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2460079

• 6 Apr 2023Refused

  S254 - advertising structure - finger post

  N/a · Wicklow County Council, 23365

• 18 Jul 2022Conditional

  construction of development comprising of: enterprise and employment hub including incubator business units/offices and café unit (2,752sqm); community building; childcare facility; 31 residential units comprise: 8 no. 3 bed terraced houses, 5 no. 3 bed semi detached houses, 11 no. 4 bed semi detached houses, 7 no. 5 bed detached houses; two vehicular accesses off the Glencree Road; Repair, replacement and provision of new drainage and pedestrian infrastructure including lighting towards the town centre on Kilgarron Hill along the Glencree Road; All associated site development and infrastructural works including amenity spaces, landscaping, open space, boundary treatments, vehicular parking, bicycle parking, utilities, internal roads, footpaths and shared surfaces, playground, site clearance and temporary construction development. A Natura Impact Statement has been prepared in respect of the proposed development and accompanies this application

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22794

• 15 Jul 2022Conditional

  construction of a development comprising: - enterprise and employment hub including incubator business units/offices and café unit (2,752sqm) - Community building - Childcare facility - 98 residential units comprise: -8no 2 bed terraced houses -32 no. 3 bed terraced houses - 34 no. 3 bed semi-detached houses - 2 no 3 bed detached bungalows - 8 no. 4 bed semidetached houses - 8 no. 4 bed detached houses - 6 no. 5 bed detached houses. - Two vehicular accesses off the Glencreee Road - repair, replacement and provision of new drainage and pedestrian infrastructure including lighting towards the town centre on Kilgarron hill along the Glencree Road - All associated site development and infrastructural works including amenity spaces, landscaping, open space, boundary treatments, vehicular parking, bicycle parking, utilities, internal roads, footpaths and shared surfaces, playground, site clearance and temporary construction development. A Natura Impact Statement has been prepared in respect of the proposed development

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22789

• 8 Jul 2021Conditional

  section 254 licence for outdoor tables & chairs

  N/a · Wicklow County Council, 21810

• 30 Jun 2021N/a

  change of use from part commercial unit to habitable accommodation and proposed slate roof canopy to part of front of coffee shop and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21770

• 4 May 2021Conditional

  6 tables and chairs outside restaurant

  N/a · Wicklow County Council, 21508

• 16 Apr 2021Unconditional

  Carry out works to The Square, which includes protected structure 03/21, and Fair Green, Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow. The works shall consist of the following: • Close south side of the Town Clock to vehicle traffic except for emergency access controlled by demountable bollards. • Provide a new enhanced pedestrianised paved area on the south side of the Town Clock, new footpath around the Town Clock and wider paths around the square. • Provide raised level access courtesy pedestrian crossing points. • Provide additional street furniture including benches, planters and bicycle stands and amendments to existing street signs. • Create a bus bay west bound at the Parochial Hall to replace existing stop on the east side of the square. • Alterations to parking including a new disabled access and an age friendly parking bay beside the Parochial Hall, new loading bay on Church Hill and reduced number of general parking spaces. • Remedial work to the Town Clock and associated monument features and include for up-lighting of monument. • Create a Community Garden at the Fair Green

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21418

• 8 Mar 2021N/a

  Part 8 Application- Enniskerry Village Renewal - • Close south side of the Town Clock to vehicle traffic except for emergency access controlled by demountable bollards. • Provide a new enhanced pedestrianised paved area on the south side of the Town Clock, new footpath around the Town Clock and wider paths around the square. • Provide raised level access courtesy pedestrian crossing points.• Provide additional street furniture including benches, planters and bicycle stands and amendments to existing street signs. • Create a bus bay west bound at the Parochial Hall to replace existing stop on the east side of the square. • Alterations to parking including a new disabled access and an age friendly parking bay beside the Parochial Hall, new loading bay on Church Hill and reduced number of general parking spaces. • Remedial work to the Town Clock and associated monument features and include for up-lighting of monument. • Create a Community Garden at the Fair Green

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21237

• 17 Jul 2020Conditional

  tables

  N/a · Wicklow County Council, 20687

• 23 Mar 2020N/a

  change of use of 150m2 of existing dwelling at first floor level to 3 no. executive offices with associated storage with accessed via shared entrance door, hall and staircase, together with car parking and associated site works, with vehicular access via the permitted road to Redwood (Planning Reg Ref 18/763), currently under construction

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 20292

• 3 Dec 2019N/a

  change of use from part commercial unit to habitable accommodation and proposed slatted roofed canopy to part of front of commercial premises and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 191290

• 22 Oct 2019N/a

  change of use from part of commercial unit to habitable accommodation and proposed slate roofed canopy to part of front of commercial premises and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 191146

• 28 Sept 2018Conditional

  partly single partly two storey extension (130.5 sqm) with pitched roof to the side of existing single storey dwelling (186.6 sqm) including internal layout alterations, relocation of main entrance, soakpit and all associated site development works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 181078

The 25 most recent of 32 applications.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Knocksink Wood SAC 000725
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Knocksink Wood 000725

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knocksink.

Architectural heritage

• The Clock Tower, monument, 1840–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Free-standing Renaissance style three–stage granite clock tower, built 1843, possibly to designs by John Louch, with cupola added in 1860 by Sir George Moyers. The tower is square in plan with the ground floor level acting as a bevelled base course and string courses separating the upper stages. At ground level is a pedestrian doorway to north and projecting cast iron fountain spouts to east and west, whilst to each side of the first stage are moulded panels with further smaller panels to the uppermost stage and the clock face to the north. Each side is topped with a pediment whilst the whole edifice is surmounted with a copper-domed cupola with weathervane. Semi-circular former fountain basins flanking the tower now act as flower beds. The large platform on which the tower is set is faced in undressed granite and incorporates water troughs and splayed steps, the latter leading to a public area around the tower with further flower beds and bench seating. The tower prominently located on a large raised platform at the centre of the village of Enniskerry.

• House, 1870–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1875, with single storey hipped roof bay windows. The façade is finished in a c.1970s-80s ‘Tyrolean’ render and painted, whilst the slated pitched roof has a slight overhang with exposed rafter ends and rendered chimneystacks. The centrally located flat-headed entrance is reached via stone steps and has a panelled timber door, plain rectangular fanlight and painted stone jambs with decorative moulded brackets supporting a cornice hood. Flanking the entrance are the canted bay windows which have slated hipped roofs and timber sash frames with segmental headed windows to first floor with similar frames and painted stone sills. Cast iron rainwater goods. Small garden to front bounded to roadside by low rubble stone wall.

• Enniskerry Carnegie Free Library, 1910–1915 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay single storey Arts & Crafts influenced library, built 1911 to designs by R.M. Butler. Basically rectangular in plan with a large gabled projection to front flanked by small flat-roofed diagonal projections and large square hipped roof bay windows. The façade is in unpainted roughcast with brick quoins whilst the slated roof has an overhang with plain barges to the front gable and rendered chimneystack to the northwest side. The segmental-headed entrance is set within the large projection and consists of a panelled and painted timber door with a Queen Anne-style stone surround incorporating lugged moulding, keystone, rusticated jambs and projecting cornice with blocking course. Above the entrance is a date panel and moulded Powerscourt crest. The windows are flat-headed with typically Edwardian-style multi-pane timber frames and stone sills and lintel mouldings. The large bay windows have low pitched slated hipped roofs. Aluminium rainwater goods. Low rendered boundary wall to front with simple decorative wrought iron railings and pedestrian gate.

• Saint Mary's and Saint Gerard's National School, 1935–1945 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached, multiple-bay single-storey school, built 1940, in granite with a main hipped-roofed section fronted by a lower flat-roofed entrance projection with wings and large, c.1990, single-storey extension to northwest. The granite façade of the original building is rock-faced with the overhanging hipped-roof slated. The entrance is set within a centrally located recessed bay and consists of an open flat-roofed porch with dressed granite splayed reveal and panelled timber and glazed double door. Most of the flat-headed windows have timber sash frames whilst others at clerestorey level have metal frames; stone sills; cast iron rainwater goods. The extension is in a more overtly modern style with informal plan, moulded concrete façade, large uPVC framed windows and corrugated-metal clad hipped roof.

• Saint Mary's Catholic Church, 1855–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey gable-fronted Gothic church, built 1859 to designs by Patrick Byrne, with (possibly later) corner three-stage buttressed tower and spire and projecting two-storey sacristy to northwest corner and single storey porch to south. The façade is rock-faced granite and is interspersed with dressed granite reducing buttresses with the corner buttresses to the front gable rising into tall pinnacles. The pointed arch windows have splayed reveals, moulded drip stones and granite tracery forming paired cusped lancets with quatrefoils to nave and tower windows, with that to the front gable incorporating a rose window and that to the west gable with more complex tracery in the decorated manner; some windows are filled with pictorial stained glass others with small plain leaded panes. There are some small flat-headed windows to the sacristy with small quatrefoils to side porch. The entrance consists of a pointed arch opening with splayed and moulded reveal, moulded drip stone and a timber double door, with similar smaller doorways to the base of the tower, porch and sacristy. Close to the apex of the front gable is a large triangular mosaic panel depicting Our Lady; this appears to be a later addition. The gabled roof is slated as is the spire with stone cross finial to front gable. Decorative cast iron gate screen and railings. Interior: Single cell church now with post-Vatican two re-ordering. Has distinctive ribbed groin vaulted plaster ceiling.

• Saint Mary's Catholic Church, presbytery/parochial/curate's house, 1855–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement, hipped roof parochial house, built 1859. The building is roughly square in plan, the façade is rendered and has rusticated quoins whilst the overhanging roof is slated. Most of the windows are flat-headed with timber sash frames and painted stone sills. To the east front is a shallow full-height gabled bay within which is the entrance which consists of a panelled timber door with segmental fanlight and moulded surround all encased within a shallow portico with Tuscan columns. To the first floor of the bay is a grouping of three tall narrow semi-circular headed sash windows with drip moulding. Flanking the bay are single storey canted bays. Rendered chimneystacks. Cast iron rainwater goods. The basement lightwell has cast iron railings.

• Knocksink Bridge, bridge, 1845–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Road bridge over the Knocksink river, built c.1850, with rock-faced granite parapets with rounded coping and at least one elliptical arch.

• House, 1815–1825 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay two storey double-pile house, built c.1820, now incorporating a shop with shopfront of c.1990. The façade is in unpainted roughcast with the double-gabled roof covered in artificial slate. The flat-headed windows have timber sash frames and painted stone sills and the entrance consists of panelled and painted timber door with rectangular fanlight. The timber shopfront has a large central mainly glazed door flanked by narrow shop windows, with the projecting signboard supported on curved brackets. uPVC rainwater goods.

• House, 1815–1825 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terrace three-bay two-storey house, built c.1820, with roughcast façade, slated pitched roof and timber sash windows. The entrance consists of a panelled door with segmental fanlight. The east gable is skewed. Two-storey gabled return to rear. Rendered chimneystack and cast iron rainwater goods.

• Fountain View, house, 1795–1805 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace four-bay two storey double-pile former house, built c.1800 and extended to east side, now split into three properties including a restaurant and take-away, post office and domestic quarters with the take-away occupying a large single storey flat-roofed shop projection of c.1900. The façade is rendered and painted, with rendered quoins also, the pitched roof slated and chimneystacks rendered. The flat-headed windows have timber bi-partite sash frames. East of the ground floor of the front elevation is the mainly glazed restaurant doorway with the large flat-roofed projection to right of this incorporating a timber shopfront of c.1920. To west of this is a smaller flat-roofed porch with house door whilst to west again is a timber post office shopfront of c.1980. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

• House, 1795–1805 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced four-bay two-storey former house, built c.1800, now also incorporating a shop. The façade is rendered and painted with timber strips added to simulate rustication. The pitched roof is slated and has both rendered and brick chimneystacks. To west of the ground floor front there is an integral carriage arch with timber double door, to east of which is the panelled and glazed house doorway. To east again is a timber shopfront of c.1995 with shop windows flanking a mainly glazed timber door. uPVC rainwater goods.

• Arus Mhuire, house, 1835–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay two-storey double-pile house, built c.1840 with roughcast façade, Regency style hipped-roofed porch and decorative fascia boards. The façade is painted with the exposed gable ends finished in unpainted render. The pitched roof is slated and the flat-headed windows have timber sash frames. The entrance consists of a panelled timber door with panelled jambs with scroll brackets and a segmental fanlight with decorative tracery, all of which is enclosed within a largely open porch with roughcast sides and a slated hipped roof with decorative fascia boards. uPVC rainwater goods. Original cast iron gate.

• House, 1815–1825 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay two storey former house, built c.1820, now in use as a shop with large shopfront of c.1995. The façade is finished in painted render and the overhanging pitched roof is slated and has decorative fascia boards. The timber shopfront is mainly glazed and has a corporate laminated signboard. The first floor flat-headed windows have timber sash frames. Modern spotlights under verge. uPVC rainwater goods.

• House, 1815–1825 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay two storey former house, built c.1820, now a shop with large shopfront of c.1990. The façade is finished in painted render and the overhanging pitched roof is slated and has decorative fascia boards. The timber shopfront consists of a separate door and window unified by reeded timber jambs and timber signboard. The first floor flat-headed windows have timber sash frames. uPVC rainwater goods.

• House, 1830–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced five-bay two-storey picturesque hotel, which may have assumed much of its present form c.1835, possibly incorporating the fabric of an older 18th century structure. The façade is in painted roughcast and painted brick, the pitched roof is slated and has an overhang with decorative bargeboards and the windows are flat headed with uPVC frames and painted stone sills. To the rear there is a large two-storey L-plan return. The front elevation is arranged into five gabled bays all with mock half-timbering and decorative bargeboards, the two larger projecting outer gables incorporating a moulded panel with the Powerscourt crest thereon, whilst the central of the three smaller bays in-between is a mainly glazed projecting gabled porch with overhanging roof and bargeboards as before. To the south-west end of the building there is a lower gabled section built around a large elliptical-headed carriage archway with timber double door; the gable of this section is arranged as a tympanum and within this is a small moulded shield panel with the date ‘1715’. There are a number of rendered chimneystacks of varying size, some set on the ridges with two stacks extending from the front pitch of the main roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, 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 Knocksink.

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 Knocksink with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Knocksink · Cnoc Sinche

Area

165,753 m² (16.58 ha, 40.96 acres)

Civil parish

Powerscourt, and its townlands

Barony

Rathdown

Electoral division

Enniskerry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Enniskerry electoral division: 3,173 people in 970 households; 80% of households own their home; 18% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cookstown, Enniskerry, Kilgarran, Monastery, Parknasilloge, Powerscourt Demesne

Placenames

Knocksink 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.