Knockbaun

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockbaun, from 2,025 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres) to 320,140 m² (32.01 ha, 79.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Knockbaun 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 2023Conditional

  construction of a single storey dwelling, domestic garage, site entrance, waste water treatment system soil polishing filter and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 23165

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170

Recorded monuments

• WA019A001 Metalworking site
  Description

  Sir Walter Raleigh acquired extensive estates in east Cork and west Waterford, and he was the first person to develop its potential iron industry. Sir Richard Boyle, later the first Earl of Cork, acquired the Raleigh estates in Ireland in 1604, and continued to develop the iron industry. Situated on the E side of a S-N stream, close to its junction with the E-W Araglin River. An ironworks and blast furnace were established here in 1642 by a son of the Earl of Cork. New works were built c. 1741 for the production of bar iron (Smith 1746, 62, 305) but these seem to have gone into disuse by the end of the 18th century (Power 1978a, 30-31). A blast furnace with a charging area and two outlets (Wth 4.1m; H 1.55m) survives with the foundations of a forge (dims. 10.2m N-S; 9.3m E-W) nearby. The possible tailing tips of spoil from the ironworkings are to the E. The visible remains probably date to the 18th century. (Schubert 1957, 11-12) Power, T. (1977) Richard Boyle's ironworks in Co. Waterford. Part 1.Decies, No. 6, 26-31. Power, T. (1978a) Richard Boyle's ironworks in Co. Waterford. Part 2. Decies, No. 7, 30-36. Schubert, H. R. (1957) History of the British Iron and Steel Industry from c. 450 BC to AD 1775. Oxford. University Press. Smith, C. (1746) The history of the town and county of Waterford. W. Wilson. Dublin. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of upload 17 February 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Knockbaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.

Name

Knockbaun · An Cnoc Bán

Area

1,025,589 m² (102.56 ha, 253.43 acres)

Civil parish

Lismore and Mocollop, and its townlands

Barony

Coshmore and Coshbride

Electoral division

Mocollop, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Mocollop electoral division: 237 people in 86 households; 93% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinaleucra, Barnahown (Co. Tipperary), Glencullen, Gortnaskehy (Co. Cork), Liss

Placenames

Knockbaun 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.