Knockalonga
Knockalonga is a townland in the civil parish of Ballingarry (Slievardagh Ra), barony of Slievardagh, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is Cnoc an Longaigh.
- Area
- 77.1 ha
- 191 acres
- Land parcels
- 27
- registered freehold, median 7,492 m² (0.75 ha, 1.85 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockalonga, from 816 m² to 158,968 m² (15.9 ha, 39.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Knockalonga 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
23 Jul 2026Conditional
(A) single storey rear extension to existing dwelling, (B) elevation changes & internal alterations to existing dwelling, (C) decommissioning of existing septic tank and percolation area, (D) proposed new replacement treatment tank and percolation area, (E) demolition of existing shed, including all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660715
4 Sept 2019Conditional
(a) construct an extension to northwestern elevation of existing dwelling to incorporate a kitchen and master-bedroom with ensuite (b) refurbish existing shed to provide for utility/store (c) demolish existing ground floor bathroom to northeastern elevation of existing dwelling (d) make other alterations, refurbish and upgrade existing dwelling (e) modify external paving and fencing as appropriate, and all associated works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19600975
14 Aug 2019N/a
(a) construct an extension to northwestern elevation of existing dwelling to incorporate a kitchen and master-bedroom with ensuite (b) refurbish existing shed to provide for utility/store (c) demolish existing ground floor bathroom to northeastern elevation of existing dwelling (d) make other alterations, refurbish and upgrade existing dwelling (e) modify external paving and fencing as appropriate, and all associated works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19600894
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 Knockalonga.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockalonga.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockalonga.
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 Knockalonga, 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 Knockalonga.
- 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 Knockalonga with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Knockalonga · Cnoc an Longaigh
- Area
- 771,146 m² (77.11 ha, 190.55 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballingarry (Slievardagh Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Slievardagh
- Electoral division
- Ballyphilip, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 410 people lived in 147 households in the Ballyphilip electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyphilip, Clashduff, Coalbrook, Curraheenduff, Lisnamrock
- Placenames
- Knockalonga 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.