Knockbrit

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockbrit, from 226 m² to 184,209 m² (18.42 ha, 45.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Knockbrit 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.

• 26 May 2026Conditional

  an existing extension to an existing dwelling as well as PLANNING PERMISSION for a ground mounted solar panel installation and all associated site development works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2660511

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 Knockbrit.

Recorded monuments

• TS061-109 Moated site
  Description

  In pasture, on a W-facing slope. Sub-rectangular area (dims. 33m N-S; 26m E-W) defined by remains of earthen bank (overall Wth 7m; Wth at top 3m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 1.45m) to N, S and short return at N-end of W-side. S-half of W-side is disturbed, possibly by quarrying. Enclosing elements absent on E-side, as per latest edition OS 6-inch map. Fosse (overall Wth 6.6m; basal Wth 3.7m; D 0.3m) along N-side and a feint trace at S. Interior slopes down sharply to W, with prevalent slope. Swallow hole and deep land drain (long axis E-W) to immediate S and SW respectively. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knockbrit, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knockbrit.

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 Knockbrit with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Knockbrit · Cnoc an Bhriotaigh

Area

1,206,229 m² (120.62 ha, 298.07 acres)

Civil parish

Magorban, and its townlands

Barony

Middlethird

Electoral division

Ardsallagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

470 people lived in 167 households in the Ardsallagh electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyvadin, Coolmoyne (Fennell), Coolmoyne (Taylor), Kilconnell, Kilsallagh, Mobarnan

Placenames

Knockbrit 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.