Knockanea

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockanea, from 11 m² to 184,429 m² (18.44 ha, 45.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Knockanea 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.

• 13 Jul 2026N/a

  proposed development will consist of a new playing pitch with floodlights, 2 No. goal ballstops, perimeter pitch netting, 2 No. dugouts, groundskeeper’s shed, walking track and car park with public lighting, works to the existing site entrance, portable toilets, signage with all associated site works. An Appropriate Assessment Screening and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been submitted as part of this application

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2660374

• 20 Sept 2024Conditional

  development which will consist of a new playing pitch with floodlights, 2 No. goal ballstops, perimeter pitch netting, 2 No. dugouts, groundskeepers shed, walking track with public lighting, works to the existing site entrance, signage and carparking with all associated site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2460343

• 3 Jun 2022N/a

  Development on a 4.77 ha. site. The proposed development will comprise of an inert waste facility designed for (a) reception and utilisation of clean subsoil, soil, stone and rubble, for the purpose of improving low-lying wet and poorly drained agricultural land at the site, and (b) reception and upcycling (crushing and grading) of inert construction and demolition (C&D) waste material and its subsequent export to construction sites in the midlands region for use as secondary aggregate (replacing natural aggregates). The proposed site will have a new entrance road and gates off the existing Dublin Road (R446, old N6) with onsite parking, yards, wheel wash, weighbridge, portacabin office/admin hut, boundary fencing, and all associated site works. The development is for the purposes of an activity requiring a waste facility permit.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 22303

• 22 Feb 2022N/a

  The proposed development will consist of the importation of inert waste materials consisting of soils, sub-soils, stone, sands, gravels, rocks and C & D waste consisting of concrete, blocks and bricks for the purpose of improving existing low-lying agricultural lands. The site will be divided into two cells which will be filled in phases: Cell 1 as Phase 1 and Cell 2 as Phase 2. Approximately half (50%) of the inert material accepted to the site will be crushed and graded on site for its subsequent export as secondary aggregate for use on construction projects in the midland's region. The site will have a new entrance road and gates off the existing Dublin Road (R446, old N6) with onsite parking, yards, wheel wash, weighbridge, portacabin office/admin hut, boundary fencing, and all associated site works. Subsequent to planning the applicant will apply for a waste facility permit.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2276

• 14 Feb 2020Conditional

  Retention of conversion of part of existing domestic dwelling for use as pre-school ancillary to the use of previously granted pre-school at the same property (planning reference 14/7066) and all associated site works

  Retention · Westmeath County Council, 207028

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knockanea.

Recorded monuments

• WM029-038 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a low rise, in pasture, with fairly good views to E and S and restricted views to W and N. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a perfectly circular-shaped tree-ring and not as an antiquity. Levelled monument described in 1979 as no surface remains visible. Several field boundaries in the vicinity have been removed. This may have been a ringfort that was reused as a tree-ring. Levelled monument the cropmark of which is barely visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 07 November 2019

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. 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).

No address of the register names Knockanea with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Knockanea

Area

845,480 m² (84.55 ha, 208.92 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcleagh, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlonan

Electoral division

Tubbrit, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydonagh, Blackories, Fardrum, Glen, Ories, Tubbrit

Placenames

Knockanea on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.