Knockatee

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockatee, from 112 m² to 200,753 m² (20.08 ha, 49.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Knockatee 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.

• 18 Mar 2026Conditional

  to construct a bungalow and domestic garage. Permission is also sought to construct a new site entrance, to erect new site boundaries and to install a treatment system and polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2660128

• 16 Nov 2024Conditional

  construction of one number detached dwelling, to upgrade existing entrance to public road, to connect to public watermain, to install a mini-treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2460438

• 3 May 2023Conditional

  development which will consist of the demolition of an existing vacant dwelling and outbuildings, and replaced with a new, part two-storey, part single storey detached dwelling and detached domestic garage. The development will also include the decommissioning of the existing septic tank and percolation area, the installation of a new proprietary wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, upgrading of existing vehicular entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2360113

• 28 Apr 2023N/a

  development which will consist of the demolition of an existing vacant dwelling and outbuildings, and replaced with a new, part two-storey, part single storey detached dwelling and detached domestic garage. The development will also include the decommissioning of the existing septic tank and percolation area, the installation of a new proprietary wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, upgrading of existing vehicular entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2360109

• 20 Dec 2022Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2260042

• 21 Jul 2022Conditional

  private dwelling house, proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area, domestic garage, entrance onto public road and all ancillary site services

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 22376

• 24 Mar 2022Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 22139

• 21 Apr 2021Conditional

  Permission to construct an extension to the western side elevation and southern rear elevation of our existing dwelling, internal alterations, new proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site services

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 21213

• 14 Oct 2020Conditional

  a private dwelling house, propriety effluent treatment system and percolation area, domestic garage, entrance onto public road and all ancillary site services.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 206280

• 5 Aug 2020Conditional

  a private dwelling house, proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area, domestic garage, entrance onto public road and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 206201

• 15 Aug 2018Conditional

  to construct a two storey dwelling, detached domestic garage and store, install a proprietary wastewater treatment system and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 186247

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 Knockatee.

Recorded monuments

• WM012-142 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on N facing slope of a steep sided hillock in grassland, with good views from NW-NE. Ringfort (WM012-179----) 100m to S. A raised sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 45m N-S; 48m E-W) enclosed by a low earthen bank and a shallow external fosse. The bank is best preserved from N-E-SE and from SE-SSW and reduced to a scarp elsewhere. Traces of cultivation ridges are visible running WNW-ESE across the interior, which slopes to the N. A field fence running E-W bisects the N half of the monument. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 6 March 2018

• WM012-143 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a prominent hillock in grassland with commanding views in all directions. Ringfort (WM012-144----) 150m to ENE. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan as a circular shaped earthwork annotated as ‘fort’. This site has been levelled, and all that remains is a flat oval; area on top of the hillock. Local information suggests that this site was levelled in the mid-1960s. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 6 March 2018

• WM012-144 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a prominent rise in grassland. Ringfort (WM012-143----) 150m to WSW. This site has been partially levelled. All that remains is a raised area (approx. diam. 29m NW-SE; 27m NE-SW) defined by a scarp with slight traces of a bank at ESE. Traces of cultivation ridges are visible running NE-SW across the interior, which rises towards the centre. A field fence running NE-SW intersects the monument at NE. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 6 March 2018

• WM012-179 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on top of a steep rise in grassland, with good views from W-NW. Ringfort (WM012-142----) 100m to N. A large sub-circular shaped slightly raised area (approx. diam. 57m NW-SE; 61m NE-SW) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank and a wide, very shallow external fosse. The bank has been reduced to a scarp in places. There is an entrance gap (Wth 2.6m) at NE. Traces of cultivation ridges are visible running WNW-ESE across the interior, which rises towards the centre. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 12 March 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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 Knockatee.

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.

• Knockatee, Monilea7 sales

Name

Knockatee

Area

1,213,175 m² (121.32 ha, 299.78 acres)

Civil parish

Taghmon, and its townlands

Barony

Corkaree

Electoral division

Knockdrin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Knockdrin electoral division: 609 people in 203 households; 92% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Garraree, Knockdrin, Monkstown, Parsonstown, Sheefin, Toberaquill

Placenames

Knockatee 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.