Knockbower
Knockbower is a townland in the civil parish of Tullowmagimma, barony of Carlow, Co. Carlow. Its name in Irish is An Cnoc Bodhar.
Parcel 814812
- Area
- 658 m²
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 17 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Knockbower
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 84.5 ha
- 209 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 10,611 m² (1.06 ha, 2.62 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockbower, from 658 m² to 264,041 m² (26.4 ha, 65.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Knockbower 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
5 Aug 2022Refused
construction of a dwelling house (198sqm), domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, site entrance and connection to services and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 22254
24 Jun 2021Refused
Permission is sought for the construction of a dwelling house (198 sq m), domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, site entrance and connection to services and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 21238
23 Nov 2020Refused
Construction of a dwelling house (198 sq m), domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, site entrance and connection to services and associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 20418
4 Sept 2017Conditional
Permission to construct a New Single Storey Dwelling, Domestic Garage, Bored Well, Septic Tank & Percolation area, Entrance onto public roadway and all associated works to my proposed site.
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 17264
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knockbower.
Recorded monuments
- CW012-033 Barrow - mound barrow
Description
The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Earthen mound situated on break of hill slope (H at W 3.5m; H at E 1.2m; summit diam. 8m; base diam. c. 14m). Possible boulder kerb visible at base.
- CW012-217 Enclosure
Description
In tillage. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) identified as a cropmark on Google Earth Pro imagery (imagery date 14 July 2018) by Jean-Charles Caillère. See attached photograph: CW012-217----_01 Image ©2019 CNEW/Airbus: Google Earth Pro satellite imagery (14 July 2018) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 10 December 2019
- CW012-222 Enclosure
Description
In tillage. A sub-rectangular enclosure (dims. c. 32m NNE-SSW; c. 35m ESE-WNW) defined by a cropmark is visible on Google Earth (imagery date 14 July 2018), identified and reported by Simon Dowling. The E side of the enclosure kinks inward towards the S. See attached: CW012-222----_01 Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018) CW012-222----_02 Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018) with enclosure highlighted Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 25 February 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockbower.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Knockbower, 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 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 Knockbower.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Knockbower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.
The townland
- Name
- Knockbower · An Cnoc Bodhar
- Area
- 845,343 m² (84.53 ha, 208.89 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tullowmagimma, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carlow
- Electoral division
- Kellistown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 982 people lived in 355 households in the Kellistown electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyloo, Ballytarsna, Graiguealug, Graiguenaspiddoge, Kilballyhue, Linkardstown
- Placenames
- Knockbower 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.