Knockmeal
Knockmeal is a townland in the civil parish of Kilronan (Clonmel No. 2 Ra), barony of Glenahiry, Co. Waterford. Its name in Irish is An Cnoc Maol.
- Area
- 247.7 ha
- 612 acres
- Land parcels
- 54
- registered freehold, median 4,952 m² (0.5 ha, 1.22 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockmeal, from 390 m² to 575,162 m² (57.52 ha, 142.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 38 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 Knockmeal 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
18 Feb 2025Conditional
to construct (i) Cubicle Shed with underground slurry tanks (ii) Calf shed with effluent tank and all associated site works
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2560091
14 Nov 2023Conditional
two Storey Dwelling House, Garage, Entrance, Septic Tank, Percolation Area and ancillary works at
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2360546
21 Apr 2023Conditional
renovation and two storey extension to existing dwelling, demolition of existing garage and pump house, entrance location change, upgrade of existing septic tank system & all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 23130
17 Jun 2022Conditional
single storey dwelling house, garage/storage building, entrance, septic tank, percolation area and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 22545
2 Jun 2022Conditional
installation of cattle underpass, a soiled water tank and associated works
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 22472
24 Mar 2022Conditional
the construction of a single storey timber structure garden building comprising of a music studio, recording studio and home office with hardstanding base to the side of the existing property to be used as extra area ancillary to the enjoyment of the existing dwelling along with the associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 22235
20 Dec 2021Conditional
RETENTION PERMISSION of (i) Meal bin (ii) Roof over collecting yard area (iii) slatted tank (iv) Larger roller door (v) Window and all associated site works
Retention · Waterford City and County Council, 211191
13 Aug 2020Conditional
for the construction of a new single storey house, a garage, a waste water treatment system, a bored well and an entrance along with all associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 20556
31 Jul 2020Conditional
permission to construct (I) milking parlour building incorporating holding yard with crush/drafting yard meal bin, office, flow channel, storage rooms and plant rooms, slatted tank and all associated site works. Retention is also required for cubicle shed with slatted tank and loose area at
Retention, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 20516
16 Jul 2020Conditional
to retain the single storey extension to the rear of my dwelling, retain garage and all ancillary site works
Retention, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 20482
30 Jun 2020Conditional
for indefinite retention of re-orientation of dwelling house and to alter window and door openings from those granted planning permission under reference 18/124 and ancillary works at
Retention, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 20421
20 Dec 2019Conditional
a new single storey extension to side and new two storey extension to front of existing dormer dwelling and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 19989
23 Feb 2018Conditional
to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, effluent treatment system with percolation area, entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 18124
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 Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockmeal.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockmeal.
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 Knockmeal, 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 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 Knockmeal.
- 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 Knockmeal with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.
The townland
- Name
- Knockmeal · An Cnoc Maol
- Area
- 2,477,188 m² (247.72 ha, 612.13 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilronan (Clonmel No. 2 Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Glenahiry
- Electoral division
- Graignagower, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 550 people lived in 201 households in the Graignagower electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aughavanlomaun (Co. Tipperary), Ballynamult, Caherbrack, Carrigroe, Coolnabeasoon, Doon, Priest-Town (Co. Tipperary)
- Placenames
- Knockmeal 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.