Knockshigowna

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockshigowna, from 19 m² to 598,710 m² (59.87 ha, 147.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Knockshigowna 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.

• 25 May 2026Conditional

  slatted cattle house with underground slurry storage and all associated site works which is in the curtilage of a protected structure, Knockshigowna House

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2661

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 Knockshigowna.

Recorded monuments

• TN008-048 Designed landscape - summer house
  Description

  Post medieval summer house built on the summit of Knockshigowna Hill with commanding views of the surrounding countryside. Described in 1837 as a small tower on the summit of Knockshigwna Hill (Lewis 1837, 114). The Ordnance Survey Field Name Books for Ballingarry parish described this tower in 1840 as 'the ruins of a small castle built on the summit of Knockshigowna Hill by the father of Mr Robinson the present proprietor of Mt. ..., where dinner parties often assembled here on Sunday afternoons to enjoy a fine prospect the elevation of the place commands' (O'Donovan et. al. 1840; Nolan 1985, 306). Only a short section of the S wall (L 6.8m, T 0.7m; H 3.85m) of this summer house survives, wall footings of the W wall are visible, with no surface remains visible of the N and E walls. A slit ope of 19th century appearance can be seen in the upstanding section of the S wall. No other features visible. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 12 February 2015

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knockshigowna, about 1 in 10 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 Knockshigowna.

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

Name

Knockshigowna · Cnoc Sí Ghabhna

Area

1,086,868 m² (108.69 ha, 268.57 acres)

Civil parish

Ballingarry (Borrisokane Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Ormond Lower

Electoral division

Ballingarry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

579 people lived in 215 households in the Ballingarry electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballingarry, Gortinarable, Kilcunnahin Beg, Lisnagower

Placenames

Knockshigowna 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.