# Knocksimon, Co. Westmeath: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killucan, barony of Farbill, Co. Westmeath. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 532,779 m² (53.28 ha, 131.65 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,095 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Killucan, https://everytownland.com/westmeath/parish/killucan.md - Barony: Farbill - Electoral division: Huntingdon, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 449 people lived in 150 households in the Huntingdon electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Westmeath, https://everytownland.com/westmeath.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/51731 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 230877 - Centre: latitude 53.487757, longitude -7.182208 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocksimon, from 43 m² to 121,845 m² (12.18 ha, 30.11 acres); 25 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 98261: 121,845 m² (12.18 ha, 30.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/98261.md - Parcel 98732: 104,913 m² (10.49 ha, 25.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/98732.md - Parcel 124521: 92,899 m² (9.29 ha, 22.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/124521.md - Parcel 124522: 87,724 m² (8.77 ha, 21.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/124522.md - Parcel 96591: 25,237 m² (2.52 ha, 6.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/96591.md - Parcel 98733: 25,100 m² (2.51 ha, 6.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/98733.md - Parcel 99636: 23,283 m² (2.33 ha, 5.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/99636.md - Parcel 124492: 20,816 m² (2.08 ha, 5.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/124492.md - Parcel 2711225: 3,934 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2711225.md - Parcel 123662: 2,863 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/123662.md - Parcel 98943: 2,713 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/98943.md - Parcel 123820: 2,653 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/123820.md - Parcel 124503: 2,451 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/124503.md - Parcel 98474: 2,154 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/98474.md - Parcel 124498: 2,104 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/124498.md - Parcel 123782: 2,087 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/123782.md - Parcel 123302: 2,073 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/123302.md - Parcel 124590: 1,860 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/124590.md - Parcel 123271: 1,495 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/123271.md - Parcel 124010: 1,281 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/124010.md - Parcel 124030: 918 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/124030.md - Parcel 98239: 865 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/98239.md - Parcel 4814938: 483 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4814938.md - Parcel 4814932: 369 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4814932.md - Parcel 4814912: 237 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4814912.md - Parcel 124493: 170 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/124493.md - Parcel 98725: 154 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/98725.md - Parcel 2675464: 89 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2675464.md - Parcel 4814919: 78 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4814919.md - Parcel 2607521: 43 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2607521.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Knocksimon in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 1 Aug 2025, Westmeath County Council 2560387: Refused. Permission, 1 home. to construct a two-storey dwelling, install a proprietary wastewater treatment system and all associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560387/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knocksimon. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WM027-034: Moated site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWM027-034----. Situated on an ESE-facing slope, in gently undulating pasture, overlooked by higher ground. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly rectangular-shaped earthwork cut by a laneway at E. Monument described in 1971 as a rectangular-shaped area (dims. 30.5m N-S; 28m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank and a fosse. The bank is steep on the exterior and is almost reduced to a scarp, particularly along the E side where the monument is cut by a laneway running N-S. There is a trench along the S, W and N sides, which may have been recut along the site of the fosse. There is a disturbance gap in each corner and another in the N side. The original entrance is not recognisable. The interior has a gentle E-facing slope and has cultivation ridges running E-W within. Monument is visible today as a subrectangular-shaped tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 06 November 2019 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knocksimon. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Knocksimon, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knocksimon. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/knocksimon.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/knocksimon.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/knocksimon.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Knocksimon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath: https://everytownland.com/westmeath.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballinla: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/ballinla.md - Banagher: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/banagher.md - Crossanstown: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/crossanstown.md - Heathstown: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/heathstown-230728.md - Hightown or Balloughter: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/hightown-or-balloughter.md - Porterstown (Cooke): https://everytownland.com/westmeath/porterstown-cooke.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/knocksimon - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/westmeath/knocksimon