Knocknaraha

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknaraha, from 3,019 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres) to 185,471 m² (18.55 ha, 45.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Knocknaraha 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Knocknaraha in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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

• WA029-035 Standing stone
  Description

  Situated on a low spur on a N-facing slope. This is an Old Red Sandstone monolith with quartz veins and a rectangular cross-section (dims. 0.8m x 0.55m; H 2.2m), oriented NE-SW. This stone has fallen since 1991. 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: 10 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knocknaraha, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1596 (ZIP).

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 Knocknaraha with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.

Name

Knocknaraha · Cnoc na Rátha

Area

746,116 m² (74.61 ha, 184.37 acres)

Civil parish

Kilwatermoy, and its townlands

Barony

Coshmore and Coshbride

Electoral division

Kilwatermoy East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

130 people lived in 52 households in the Kilwatermoy East electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 14% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymoat Upper, Churchquarter, Dunmoon North, Moorehill, Sapperton South, Slieveburth

Placenames

Knocknaraha 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.