Knockmant

117 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockmant, from 88 m² to 166,956 m² (16.7 ha, 41.26 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 Knockmant 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.

• 3 Jul 2026Conditional

  RETENTION planning permission to retain a previously built 133.7sq.m home office building with a home gym and recreational area and all associated ancillary site services

  Retention, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2660360

• 1 Jul 2026N/a

  construction of Cattle Housing Unit with Underground Slurry Storage Tank, Stock Handling Area ,Cattle Crush, Concrete Aprons and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2660353

• 10 Dec 2024Conditional

  construction of a slatted shed with all ancillary site works which was granted under planning file reference 17/6109

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2460471

• 9 May 2024Conditional

  development which will consist of the construction of a single-storey 24 sq m extension to the existing dwelling

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2460153

• 16 May 2023Conditional

  construction of a single storey dwelling with converted attic, install a proprietary wastewater treatment system and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2360133

• 16 Mar 2023Conditional

  undertaking of land reclamation works consisting of recontouring of existing agricultural land by landfill material imported to site (reclaimed land site area circa 1.756 hectares). The imported material will be soil, subsoil & rock at New Down, The Downs, Co. Westmeath. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will accompany the planning application

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2360063

• 16 Mar 2022Conditional

  Construction of one dwelling house, detached garage, and septic tank will all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 22119

• 13 Oct 2021N/a

  to undertake land reclamation works consisting of recontouring of existing agricultural land by landfill materials imported to site (reclaimed land site area circa 1.756 hectares). The imported material will be soil, subsoil and rock

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 21560

• 5 Aug 2021Refused

  Construction of one dwelling house, detached garage and septic tank with all associated site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 21438

• 17 Dec 2018Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house and detached garage with septic tank and percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 186375

• 6 Apr 2017Conditional

  to construct 3 no. slatted sheds and 1 no. cattle crush with concrete area's with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 176109

• 28 Feb 2017N/a

  construct 3 no. slatted sheds and 1 no. cattle crush with concrete areas with all ancillary site works.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 176060

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 Knockmant.

Recorded monuments

• WM020-116 Settlement deserted - medieval
  Description

  Earthworks located to N, E and S of castle (WM027-007001-) may be the remains of a deserted medieval settlement which has been partially destroyed by quarrying. Church (WM027-009001-) and graveyard (WM027-009002-) 260m to SE. Ringfort (WM027-066) located 55m to the S. Access road into quarry which is located to the N of the castle site can be seen on Bing Maps aerial photographs taken between 06-07 November 2011 (www.bing.com/maps). Earthworks of this levelled castle site were bulldozed in 1977 (SMR File). Site inspection carried out by the National Monuments Service in 1976 recorded that a small section of the SW angle (H c. 2m) of the castle remains upstanding. The remains of an extensive series of earthworks consisting of low earth and stone banks were noted extending out to the N, E and S of the castle. These earthworks may represent the remains of a deserted settlement of uncertain date. According to local information it was suggested that these earthworks represented the remains of the old village of Killucan (SMR File). Another local tradition recorded that these earthworks represented a clustered settlement where people lived until it was abandoned in the 19th century (SMR File). Oblique aerial photograph taken 15/07/1966 shows extent of earthworks in field prior to quarrying (CUCAP APE020/024). See attached sketch plan of earthworks drawn by Phelim Manning. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 15 August 2013 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 5/1977).

• WM027-006 Burial
  Description

  Situated in a commercial quarry. Not depicted on the 1837 OS 6-inch map or the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map, where the area is shown as a trackway running ENE-WSW. Monument is not visible on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 04 November 2019

• WM027-007001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Annotated as Castle and depicted as an upstanding rectangular shaped building aligned on an E-W axis on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. Depicted as ‘Castle (Site of)’ on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map. Castle site situated on gravel ridge with church (WM027-009001-) and graveyard (WM027-009002-) 260m to the SE. Ringfort (WM027-066----) located 55m to the S. No surface remains visible of castle site in area marked on OS 6-inch map. Access road into quarry which is located to the N of the castle site can be seen on Bing Maps aerial photographs taken between 06-07 November 2011 (www.bing.com/maps). Earthworks of this levelled castle site were bulldozed in 1977 (SMR File). Site inspection carried out by the National Monuments Service in 1976 recorded that a small section of the SW angle (H c. 2m) of the castle remains upstanding. The remains of an extensive series of earthworks (WM020-116----) consisting of low earth and stone banks were noted extending out to the N, E and S of the castle. These earthworks may represent the remains of a deserted settlement of uncertain date. No castle is shown in this townland on the 1655 Down Survey map of Farbill barony (NLI MS 723-4). On this 1655 Down Survey map the lands of ‘Knocknent’ in 1640 belonged to George Fitzgerald, Earl of Kildare (NLI MS 723-4). Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 15 August 2013 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 5/1977).

• WM027-008 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on flat pasture with castle site (WM027-007001-) 55m to N, church (WM027-009001-) and graveyard (WM027-009002-) 210m to SE. On the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map the monument is hachured as a roughly oval-shaped enclosure intersected at N by the Mullingar-Killucan road running E-W. Present remains consist of a raised steep sided sub-circular platform (H c. 3.5m; diam. 25.5m E-W; 22.3m N-S) defined by a poorly preserved bank only visible at NW, elsehwere it has been reduced to a scarp with no evidence of an external fosse or clear entrance feature. A gap in platform at SE may be an original entrance feature but more likely the result of natural erosion. The raised platform may have been a natural hillock that was scarped to form the present raised mound of earth which has the appearance of a low motte or a raised ringfort. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 15 August 2013

• WM027-009001 Church
  Description

  On top of low hillock with good views in all directions. Castle site (WM027-007001-) 255m to NW and ringfort (WM027-008----) 210m to WNW. Souterrain (WM027-009003-) c. 30m to SW. Modern quarry area located to SW-W and N of church. Depicted on 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as ‘Site of Church’ with church building shown forming the N boundary of ‘Knockmant Burial Ground’(WM027-009002-) wall. Church building not depicted on revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map. Barely visible grass covered wall footings of levelled church can be seen in N quadrant of Knockmant graveyard (WM027-009002-). Church described in the late 19th century as an ‘old church measures forty-two feet (12.8m) by fourteen (4.25m). The walls have been torn down and the stones carried off. Only the root remains’ (Cogan 1867, vol. 2, 434). Church and graveyard located on top of hillock the base of which has been scarped forming an enclosing element which has the appearance of a possible ecclesiastical enclosure. A series of sub-dividing banks within this enclosure forming small square-shaped fields can be seen on B/W aerial photographs (CUCAP APE020/021/024). Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 15 August 2013

• WM027-009002 Graveyard
  Description

  On top of low hillock with good views in all directions. Castle site (WM027-007001-) 255m to NW and ringfort (WM027-008----) 210m to WNW. Souterrain (WM027-009003-) c. 30m to SW. Modern quarry area located to SW-W and N of church. Depicted on 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as ‘Knockmant Burial Ground’ with church (WM027-009001-) shown forming the N boundary of ‘small rectangular shaped graveyard the enclosing element of which is shown in dotted outline. The graveyard today consists of a rectangular area (dims. c. 29m N-S; 26m E-W) enclosed by a stone wall of post-1700 date. Memorials date from 18th and 19th centuries. Church and graveyard located on top of hillock the base of which has been scarped forming an enclosing element which has the appearance of a possible ecclesiastical enclosure. A series of sub-dividing banks within this enclosure forming small square-shaped fields can be seen on B/W aerial photographs (APE 20, 21, 24). Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 15 August 2013

• WM027-009003 Souterrain
  Description

  A souterrain was discovered in 1976 c. 30m SW of a church site (WM027-009001-) and graveyard (WM027-009002-) during the course of quarrying operations. The souterrain was recorded by the Eamon Kelly of the National Museum of Ireland. Described by E. Kelly as consisting 'of a curved passage built of dry stone with a lintelled ceiling. At one end of this was a corbelled bee-hive chamber. The entrance was at the up-slope end of the passage. This was ovate and of dry-stone construction. There was a vertical drop into the passage 1m. deep. The structure had been constructed in a pre-dug trench which was then back-filled. A plain bronze strip was recovered from this back-filled material. A quantity of animal bones and charcoal was recovered from debris blocking the souterrain entrance' (www.excavations.ie). Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 15 August 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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).

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

Name

Knockmant · Cnoc Maint

Area

2,411,694 m² (241.17 ha, 595.94 acres)

Civil parish

Killucan, and its townlands

Barony

Farbill

Electoral division

Huntingdon, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Banagher, Heathstown, Kerinstown And Balrowan (rowley), Newdown, Porterstown (napper)

Placenames

Knockmant 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.