Knockaville

59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockaville, from 75 m² to 875,654 m² (87.57 ha, 216.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 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 Knockaville 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.

• 20 Nov 2025Conditional

  to construct a new two storey type dwelling house, domestic garage, new vehicular entrance, installation of a proprietary wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter and all associated ancillary site

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2560573

• 26 Jun 2024Conditional

  development which will consist of the construction of a new agricultural storage shed and associated site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2460219

• 10 May 2024Conditional

  construction of a new two storey type dwelling house, domestic garage, new vehicular entrance, installation of a new septic tank and percolation area and all associated ancillary site services

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2460157

• 1 Aug 2023Conditional

  The development will consist of the construction of a new dwelling house, new vehicular entrance, new effluent treatment system and all associated site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2360245

• 1 Apr 2020Conditional

  construct a new bungalow type dwelling house and domestic garage, upgrade existing agricultural entrance to form new vehicular entrance, septic tank and percolation area and to include the relocation of proposed dwelling and garage on site and all ancillary site services

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 206088

• 30 May 2019Conditional

  construction of a bungalow type dwelling with detached garage, septic tank and percolation area, new site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 196137

• 12 Jul 2018Conditional

  to construct a new two storey type dwelling house, domestic garage, new vehicular entrance, septic tank and percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 186217

• 23 Nov 2017Conditional

  construction of a new two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, new 5 bay agricultural shed, new vehicular entrance, septic tank & percolation area and all ancillary site services.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 176332

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 Knockaville.

Recorded monuments

• WM026-045 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Situated on a prominent hillock, in gently undulating pasture. Monument described as a roughly circular-shaped mound (30m N-S; 28.4m E-W) defined by an inner fosse and an earthen bank. The bank is substantial albeit slightly defaced at NE and S. A large gap in the bank at S may represent an entrance. This monument appears to have been reused as a ringfort, having a large enclosing bank and a later house site (WM026-045001-) in the centre. There is a relatively modern oblong-shaped quarry hole outside the earthwork at NE. See attached plan and profile of the monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 02 October 2019

• WM026-045001 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Situated on a prominent hillock, in gently undulating pasture. In the centre of ring barrow (WM026-045----) is a small rectangular-shaped house (dims. 3.5m E-W; 3.2m N-S) site enclosed by a bank (Wth 1.8m; H 0.3m) with a gap (Wth 0.9m) in the E and W ends. See attached plan and profile of the monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 02 October 2019

• WM026-046 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated at the W end of a low ridge running E-W, in undulating rough pasture. Monument described in 1971 as a much disturbed subrectangular-shaped area (dims, 30m NW-SE; 25.6m NE-SW) enclosed by an inner bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank. The inner bank is best preserved where it is steep along the NE and SE sides. It is reduced to a scarp along the NW side. There is no bank along the SW side, where the monument is cut by a relatively modern field bank and trench which flank a laneway running NW-SE. There is a wide outer fosse which is best preserved along the SE side and is much fainter along the NW and NE sides. Much of the outer bank has been removed along the NE side and there are slight remains along part of the SE side. A trench extends from the E corner of the fosse and from the centre of the fosse along the SE side. The original entrance is not recognisable. The interior has several humps and hollows and there is a slight, irregular fosse-like depression along the base of the bank at SE. A house site (WM026-046001-) is visible in the W quadrant, a possible souterrain (WM026-046002-) is visible in the NW quadrant and a possible field system is visible in the immediate vicinity of the monument. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 02 October 2019

• WM026-046001 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Situated at the W end of a low ridge running E-W, in undulating rough pasture. In the W quadrant of ringfort (WM026-046----) is a roughly rectangular-shaped house site (dims. 4m NW-SE; 2.8m NE-SW). It comprises of a low platform with a slight depression in the middle which is defined by a much defaced earthen bank (H 0.4m; overall Wth 2.6m) around its upper edge. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 02 October 2019

• WM026-046002 Souterrain
  Description

  Situated at the W end of a low ridge running E-W, in undulating rough pasture. In the NW sector of ringfort (WM026-046----) is a slight zigzag-shaped depression (overall L 17m; Wth 2.38m; D 0.4m) extending from the ringfort bank at NW to the N corner of house site (WM026-046001-) and may represent the remains of a collapsed souterrain. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 02 October 2019

• WM026-047 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in fairly level pasture, with limited views in all directions. Annotated ‘Fort’ on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map and depicted as a circular-shaped earthwork delimited by a broken line, in the SE corner of a field beside the roadway. Monument described in 1981 as no surface remains visible. There are two depressions in the ground. One is a broad, shallow depression and the other is a long, narrow depression which seem to be the result of minor quarrying. A laneway running N-S lies to the immediate E and a public road running WNW-ESE to the immediate S. A modern bungalow now stands on the site of the earthwork depicted on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 02 October 2019

• WM027-030 Crannog
  Description

  Originally located on the SSE shoreline of a small lake known as ‘Lough Atrim’ as depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. A possible moated site (WM027-030001-) lies c. 20m to SE. The lake was drained about 1878, exposing this mound near the centre known as ‘The Island’. This crannóg was recorded by the antiquarian Rev. William Falkiner in 1898, after it had been partially damaged by excavation to produce top-soil to spread over the old lakebed. The site apparently had a 'low, circular mound, 22ft [6.7m]in diameter’, surrounded by, and studded over with black oak piles’. A ‘rough floor of beams’ was exposed at a depth of 4ft [1.2m]. It was possibly enclosed within a plank palisade or stockade of ‘rough hewn planks, standing close together. These planks were ‘9ft [2.7m] long, 10 inches [0.25m] wide and 3 inches [0.07m] thick’. A possible midden of ‘a great quantity of ashes, burnt wood and bones’ was found near the ‘outer portion of the stockade’. Lying on the ground was ‘a quantity of bones, amongst others, those of wild swine - red deer and oxen’ as well as ‘several boar’s jaws with large tusks still remaining. Also the horns of the ancient crumpled-horned ox.’ Artefacts found on the mound included 2 ‘horn’ combs, a comb fragment, 2 bone pins, a possible ‘tracked stone’, a hammer-stone, 2 bronze pins, 1 iron object (a possible ‘hold fast’), 1 amber ring fragment and 1 wooden ladle' (O'Sullivan 2004, 59-60; Falkiner 1898-1900, 216-8). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Aidan O'Sullivan. Date of upload: 6 March 2017

• WM027-030001 Moated site
  Description

  Situated in relatively low lying wet and peaty pasture, at the SE edge of an expanse of bog, formerly known as Lough Atrim, prior to drainage. A possible crannog (WM027-030----) lies c. 20m to NW. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a roughly rectangular-shaped tree-planted area (dims. 30m NE-SW; 26.5m NW-SE), not depicted as an antiquity on any ed. OS 6-inch map. Monument is clearly visible on Digital Globe aerial photography as a rectangular-shaped earthwork. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 06 November 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Knockaville.

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 Knockaville with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Knockaville · Cnoc an Bhile

Area

3,291,140 m² (329.11 ha, 813.26 acres)

Civil parish

Killucan, and its townlands

Barony

Farbill

Electoral division

Heathstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Heathstown electoral division: 749 people in 254 households; 95% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clownstown, Enniscoffey or Caran, Heathstown, Hightown or Balloughter, Newdown, Vilanstown, Windtown

Placenames

Knockaville 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.