# Knockshigowna, Co. Tipperary: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballingarry (Borrisokane Ra), barony of Ormond Lower, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Cnoc Sí Ghabhna. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,086,868 m² (108.69 ha, 268.57 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,512 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballingarry (Borrisokane Ra), https://everytownland.com/tipperary/parish/ballingarry-borrisokane-ra.md - Barony: Ormond Lower - Electoral division: Ballingarry, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Tipperary, https://everytownland.com/tipperary.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/45803 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 212146 - Centre: latitude 53.012963, longitude -8.001836 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockshigowna, from 19 m² to 598,710 m² (59.87 ha, 147.94 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 508455: 598,710 m² (59.87 ha, 147.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/508455.md - Parcel 564794: 426,086 m² (42.61 ha, 105.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/564794.md - Parcel 542388: 41,120 m² (4.11 ha, 10.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/542388.md - Parcel 585853: 6,709 m² (0.67 ha, 1.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/585853.md - Parcel 517662: 4,644 m² (0.46 ha, 1.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/517662.md - Parcel 4612772: 2,614 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4612772.md - Parcel 4612800: 2,411 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4612800.md - Parcel 5544615: 2,288 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5544615.md - Parcel 524067: 751 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/524067.md - Parcel 4144493: 237 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4144493.md - Parcel 4144494: 94 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4144494.md - Parcel 4612789: 19 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4612789.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 25 May 2026, Tipperary County Council 2661: Conditional. Permission. slatted cattle house with underground slurry storage and all associated site works which is in the curtilage of a protected structure, Knockshigowna House. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/TipperaryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2661/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knockshigowna. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - TN008-048: Designed landscape - summer house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CTN008-048----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockshigowna. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/knockshigowna.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/knockshigowna.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/knockshigowna.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Knockshigowna with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary: https://everytownland.com/tipperary.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballingarry: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/ballingarry.md - Gortinarable: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/gortinarable.md - Kilcunnahin Beg: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/kilcunnahin-beg.md - Lisnagower: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/lisnagower.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/knockshigowna - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/tipperary/knockshigowna