Knockbrack
Townland in the civil parish of Dungarvan, barony of Decies Without Drum, Co. Waterford; in Irish An Cnoc Breac
- Area
- 14 ha
- 35 acres
- Land parcels
- 2
- registered freehold, median 67,798 m² (6.78 ha, 16.75 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- RS
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockbrack, from 55,794 m² (5.58 ha, 13.79 acres) to 79,803 m² (7.98 ha, 19.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2RS (Existing residential)
WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028, Waterford · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C7CD (Other commerce/industrial/enterprise uses)
WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028, Waterford · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
25 Mar 2026Conditional
construction of a single storey office extension( 37.5 sq.m.) to the east elevation of the existing administration offices & all associated siteworks
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2660189
28 Nov 2025Conditional
the erection of fencing, gates, barriers and ancillary works at the existing facilities
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 25168
29 Sept 2025Conditional
and relocation of an existing substrate room building and ancillary works at existing OTC facility and PLANNING PERMISSION for the construction of an electrical substation
Retention · Waterford City and County Council, 25139
17 Jun 2022Conditional
for the installation of new signage with internal illumination. One sign on the east elevation of the Over-the-Counter production building at Knockbrack TD, Dungarvan, Co Waterford X35RY76. And second sign on the south-east elevation of the Oral Care production building at Clogherane TD, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford X35Y983
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 22533
5 May 2022Conditional
the construction of a 10.5m high single storey extension and an access door, to the existing manufacturing building and ancillary works at existing facility
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 22375
2 Jun 2017Conditional
the construction of an extension to the existing manufacturing building and ancillary works at existing facilities
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 17394
8 May 2017Conditional
retention of buildings (consisting of Building P1/P2-7.925m x 12.945m in plan, Building P3 - 4.020m x 12.600m in plan and Toilet Block - 3.010m x 7.250m in plan) and ancillary works including footpaths and fencing and as granted under previous planning application 09/667 retention of three buildings (consisting of Support Team Offices - 12.090m x 12.020m in plan, Construction Management Team Offices - 6.100m x 12.200m in plan and Construction Workshop - 9.000m x 11.730m in plan) and associated site works at existing facilities
Retention, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 17302
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knockbrack.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockbrack.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockbrack.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1860 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Knockbrack with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.
The townland
- Name
- Knockbrack · An Cnoc Breac
- Area
- 140,181 m² (14.02 ha, 34.64 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dungarvan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Decies Without Drum
- Electoral division
- Dungarvan Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dungarvan Rural electoral division: 2,096 people in 699 households; 73% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clogherane, Lackenfune, Lisfennel, Ringcrehy, Springmount
- Placenames
- Knockbrack 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.