Knockduff
Knockduff is a townland in the civil parish of Toem, barony of Kilnamanagh Upper, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is An Cnoc Dubh.
- Area
- 82.5 ha
- 204 acres
- Land parcels
- 34
- registered freehold, median 13,609 m² (1.36 ha, 3.36 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockduff, from 74 m² to 144,531 m² (14.45 ha, 35.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Knockduff 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 2021N/a
the construction of a new longitudinal loading bay adjacent to the western side of the existing public road for temporary forest use. The longitudinal loading bay has been designed as per COFORD forest road manual and will comprise clear visibility sightlines, associated setting back of adjacent roadside boundaries, provision of associated surface water drainage and all associated siteworks
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 211077
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
- Special Protection Area: Slievefelim to Silvermines Mountains SPA 004165
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockduff.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockduff.
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 Knockduff, 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 high, 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 Knockduff.
- 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 Knockduff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Knockduff · An Cnoc Dubh
- Area
- 825,291 m² (82.53 ha, 203.93 acres)
- Civil parish
- Toem, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilnamanagh Upper
- Electoral division
- Curraheen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 291 people lived in 105 households in the Curraheen electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cummer More, Graniera, Inchivara, Knockcurraghbola Commons, Knockmaroe
- Placenames
- Knockduff 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.