Knocktopher Manor

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocktopher Manor, from 404 m² to 326,520 m² (32.65 ha, 80.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 49 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 Knocktopher Manor 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.

• 23 Jun 2026N/a

  to construct a dry goods commercial storage unit with all associated works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2660393

• 31 Jan 2025Conditional

  for original dwelling as constructed including subsequent extensions, domestic store permitted under 24/60410 and P00/945, and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2560039

• 27 Aug 2024Conditional

  for extension to side of dwelling house consisting of garage and first floor store, extension to rear of dwelling consisting bathroom and sunroom and domestic store on site and all associated works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2460410

• 29 Jun 2022Conditional

  for the following works: Removal of existing prefabricated classrooms including all associated ancillary footpaths and services to the west side of the school site, the construction of a new modular building consisting of a Special Needs Units in the location of the removed prefabricated units to the west side of the school site, the construction of a new modular building consisting of secondary school classrooms to the south side of the school site. Permission to include all associated demolitions works, landscaping works and associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 22421

• 5 May 2017Conditional

  to demolish existing canteen (42 Sq.m) and construct a new canteen (82 Sq.m) to the front of existing factory and all associated site development works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 17289

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: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

• KK031-017001 Castle - motte
  Description

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• KK031-017002 Castle - unclassified
  Description

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• KK031-017003 Church
  Description

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• KK031-017004 Tomb - chest tomb
  Description

  An altar tomb with a Latin inscription in Black Letter commemorating Geoffrey Power (d. 1616) and his wife Margaret Waton (d. 1620). The slab is dated to 1610. (Carrigan 1905, vol. 4, 23-4; Cockerham 2009, 353) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 1 July 2013

• KK031-017005 Graveslab
  Description

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• KK031-017006 Graveyard
  Description

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• KK031-017007 Armorial plaque (present location)
  Description

  One of two armorial plaques, originally from 'Garrison Castle' (KK031-017002-), inserted in the external face of the north wall of St. David's Graveyard (KK031-017006-) and bearing the shield of the Butler family with the word 'Ormond'. (Farrelly et al. 1993, vol. 1, 179) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 21 December 2011

• KK031-017018 Tomb - effigial
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• KK031-017019 Graveslab
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• KK031-017020 Armorial plaque (present location)
  Description

  One of two armorial plaques, originally from 'Garrison Castle' (KK031-017002-), inserted in the external face of the north wall of St. David's Graveyard (KK031-017006-) and bearing the Ormond coat of arms with a Latin inscription. (Farrelly et al. 1993, vol. 1, 179) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 21 December 2011

• KK031-017021 Architectural fragment
  Description

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• KK031-018 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

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• KK031-071 Armorial plaque
  Description

  This record relates to the original location of an armorial plaque. One of two armorial plaques, originally from 'Garrison Castle' (KK031-017002-), inserted in the external face of the N wall of St. David's Graveyard (KK031-017006-) and bearing the shield of the Butler family with the word 'Ormond'. (Farrelly et al. 1993, vol. 1, 179) See KK031-017007- for present location. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 21 December 2011

• KK031-072 Armorial plaque
  Description

  This record relates to the original location of an armorial plaque. One of two armorial plaques, originally from 'Garrison Castle' (KK031-017002-), inserted in the external face of the north wall of St. David's Graveyard (KK031-017006-) and bearing the Ormond coat of arms and a Latin inscription. (Farrelly et al. 1993, vol. 1, 179) See KK031-017020- for present location. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 21 December 2011

Architectural heritage

• Gates/railings/walls, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway, c.1900, comprising pair of rendered piers with pyramidal capping, iron double gates, and rendered curved flanking walls having chamfered coping. Road fronted at entrance to grounds of Knocktopher Castle.

• Saint Mary's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1840–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay double-height single-cell Catholic church, consecrated 1843, with three-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting entrance bay to west. Extensively redeveloped, 1934-7. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, chamfered coping to gables having cross finial to apex to west, open bellcote to apex to east (on a square plan with copper-clad swept pyramidal roof over), and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Flat roof to entrance bay not visible behind parapet. Unpainted roughcast walls with cut-limestone stepped buttresses to west, painted rendered, ruled and lined walls to entrance bay having frieze, and coping to parapet. Tudor-headed window openings (grouped in tripartite arrangement to west) with painted sills, rendered surrounds having moulded reveals, and fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Square-headed openings to entrance bay forming open arcade on pillars. Square-headed door opening to church with painted block-and-start surround, and timber panelled double doors. Full-height interior with timber pews, shallow segmental barrel-vaulted coffered ceiling, and round arch to chancel (having pulpit (1937) with flanking side altars (1934)). Set back from road in own grounds.

• Saint Mary's Catholic Church, friary, 1850–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached five-bay two-storey friary, opened 1852. Refenestrated. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, limestone ashlar chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted rusticated rendered, ruled and lined wall to ground floor with stringcourse over, unpainted roughcast walls to remainder having quoins to corners, and rendered band to eaves. Square-headed window openings with painted sills (forming part of stringcourse to first floor), and replacement aluminium casement windows. Round-headed door opening with rendered surround having archivolt, and timber panelled door having fanlight. Set back from road in shared grounds.

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 Knocktopher Manor, about 1 in 20 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2196 (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 Knocktopher Manor with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Knocktopher Manor · Mainéar Chnoc an Tóchair

Area

1,037,263 m² (103.73 ha, 256.31 acres)

Civil parish

Knocktopher, and its townlands

Barony

Knocktopher

Electoral division

Knocktopher, the unit of the census

Census 2022

543 people lived in 192 households in the Knocktopher electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyboodan, Ballyhale, Barrettstown, Carrigeen, Castlecolumb, Common, Floodhall or Rathtooterny, Kilcurl (Anglesey), Kilcurl (Feronsby), Knocktopher Abbey, Moanroe Commons, Whitescastle Lower

Placenames

Knocktopher Manor 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.