Knocknaree

59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknaree, from 136 m² to 857,747 m² (85.77 ha, 211.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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 Knocknaree 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.

• 6 May 2026Conditional

  (1) the as constructed garage and (2) the as constructed secondary entrance to the property and PERMISSION for (1) extensions to the rear and side of the existing house, (2) the conversion of the existing attached garage into habitable accommodation and (3) various window and door ope alterations to the existing house.

  Retention, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2660295

• 2 Feb 2026Conditional

  1. The demolition of a two storey component to the rear elevation of existing dwelling and also, the demolition of a single storey detached outbuilding. 2. The construction of a two storey extension to the front, side and rear of storey and a half style dwelling. 3. There will be various alterations and improvement works to the interior layout, exterior facades and roof structures to the dwelling. To comply with regulatory requirements, the roof of the dwelling will be raised in height to allow for sufficient headroom. 4. The installation of a certified wastewater treatment system and a percolation area, to all appropriate standards. The existing wastewater treatment system will be decommissioned and removed from the site. 5. The demolition and removal of the site entrance and the subsequent construction of a new site entrance incorporating walls, piers and gates. 6. The construction of a driveway, parking areas, footpaths, soak-pits, patio and hard landscaping areas. The landscaping of the site consisting of new lawn areas, planting beds, fencing, hedging, trees and shrubbery and all associated site works.

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2660057

• 12 Aug 2025Conditional

  construct a Slatted feeding area and all associated site works

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2560557

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: Nier Valley Woodlands SAC 000668
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Nier Valley Woodlands 000668

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knocknaree.

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, moderately low (inferred), 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 Knocknaree.

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

Name

Knocknaree · Cnoc na Rí

Area

5,099,355 m² (509.94 ha, 1,260.08 acres)

Civil parish

Kilsheelan, and its townlands

Barony

Glenahiry

Electoral division

Gurteen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Gurteen electoral division: 383 people in 136 households; 89% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boola, Glendalough, Glennanore, Glenpatrick, Knockalisheen, Knockaunbrandaun

Placenames

Knocknaree 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.