Knockycosker

83 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockycosker, from 26 m² to 227,537 m² (22.75 ha, 56.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• M2Self Sustaining Rural Consolidation (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  WCC CDP 2021 - 2027 Ballinagore, Westmeath · 24 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 1 Aug 2025Conditional

  Retention of extension (16.2sqm) to the rear (southwest) of the existing dwelling, consisting of accessible bedroom all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2560382

• 12 Nov 2021Conditional

  Planning permission for the development will consist of the demolition of the existing rear kitchen structure and to construct a new single and two story pitched roof and a single storey flat roof extension to the rear of the existing two storey dwelling house to include internal renovations with a new cantilevered canopy over the front door. Permission is also sought to replace the existing front boundary wall/piers with a new block work plastered wall with relocated entrance piers/gate and to decommission the existing storage tank and install a new treatment plant with a polishing filter with all ancillary site works .

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 21606

• 12 Nov 2021Conditional

  Retain as built, detached storage building located to the side and rear of the existing property along with all ancillary site works.

  Retention, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 21607

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 Knockycosker.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockycosker.

Architectural heritage

• Glen Brosna House, house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey over basement 'T-plan’ villa, built c.1830 and altered c.1850, having single-storey over basement returns to the rear (southwest) and a projecting single-bay gable-fronted porch (with timber supports and timber brackets) to the centre of the front façade (northeast). Pitched natural slate roof with overhanging bracketed eaves, rendered chimneystacks having terracotta pots over and with cast-iron rainwater goods. Artificial slate roofs to the rear (southwest). Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth with raised block quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings with paired timber casement windows and rendered architraves. Triple-light round-headed window with pediment over to northwest side elevation. Square-headed doorcase to the projecting porch having glazed timber double-doors, sidelights and rendered surrounds. Cast-iron lattice work panels to sides of open porch and a row of rendered garlands to wall above doorway. Cut stone steps give access to the doorway. Set back from road in own grounds to the west side of Ballynagore on the south banks of the River Brosna. Crenellated rubble stone wall to the northwest running along river bank. Main entrance gates to the east, comprising a pair of open work cast-iron gate piers flanked to either side by curved sections of rendered walling with wrought-iron railings over and terminated by rendered gate piers on square-plan.

• Mill (water), 1760–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multi-bay five-storey former corn and bleach mill, built c.1770, having a single-bay two-storey block to the southwest corner running perpendicular to the main body of the building. Later in use as a corn and saw mill (1914), now out of use and derelict. Pitched natural slate roofs, partially collapsed to main body of building. Cut stone coping to gable ends of five-storey structure and a projecting brick eaves course and a rendered end chimneystack to the two-storey structure. Surviving sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls over rubble stone construction with square-headed openings to the five-storey building and shallow segmental-headed openings to the two-storey block. A number of timber sliding sash windows survive to the north end of the five-storey block. Brick dressings to openings to the two-storey block. Square-headed doorways with the remains of timber sheeted doors. Remains of a timber water wheel with iron fittings to the northwest side. Former mill race, now dry, to the west side of the mill. Located on the east bank of the River Brosna and to the southwest of Ballynagore. Mill house (15319006) and outbuildings to the southeast.

• Miller's house, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey former miller's house, built c.1810, with return and later extension to rear (north). Now in use as a private house. Hipped natural slate roof with rendered chimneystacks to centre. Pitched natural slate roof to rear return. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with cut stone sills and replacement casement windows. Central square-headed doorway to main façade (south) with plain cut limestone surround having projecting keystone, a fluted frieze and a moulded cornice above. Replacement timber door. Located to the southeast of associated former mill (15319005) and to the south of Ballynagore.

• Water pump, 1870–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron water pump, erected c.1885, comprising banded cylindrical shaft with fluted head having fluted spout, ‘cow tail’ curvilinear handle, and fluted ogee-dome cap with finial. Sited on concrete plinth with three steps to north west. Located to the north side of the Main Street, Ballynagore.

• Ballynagore House, gates/railings/walls, 1850–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Entrance gateway serving Ballynagore House (15319011), erected c.1852, comprising a central pair of ashlar gate piers (on square-plan with pronounced moulded capstones over) supporting a pair of cast-iron gates. Main gateway flanked to either side by snecked/ashlar limestone walls on curved-plan with cast-iron pedestrian gates and terminated by ashlar gate piers. Located to the southwest of Ballynagore House (15319011) and to the east end of Main Street, Ballynagore. Rubble limestone boundary wall (15319012) runs away to the east.

• Ballynagore House, house, 1850–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey over basement house on irregular ‘L-shaped plan’, built c.1852, having two advanced single-bay gable-fronted bays to the north end of the front façade (east). Projecting single-bay single-storey pedimented ashlar limestone Doric entrance porch/portico to the projecting bay closest to the centre of the main facade. Pitched natural slate roofs with overhanging bracketed eaves, rendered chimneystacks with terracotta pots and having cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with raised ashlar limestone block quoins to a number of the corners. Square-headed window openings to the main body of the building with cut stone sills and replacement windows. Tripartite square-headed window opening to the ground floor of the advanced bay to the north end of the front façade having cut limestone surrounds with cut stone console brackets supporting entablature over and with replacement windows. Square-headed window over tripartite window having cut limestone surround with cut limestone console brackets over supporting cut limestone entablature. Paired round-headed window openings with cut limestone heads and margin timber sash windows over porch to the first floor of second bay from the north. Square-headed doorway set into channelled ashlar limestone wall behind porch having a timber door with overlight over. Flight of cut stone steps gives access to doorway. Cast-iron railings over basement to entrance front. Set back from road in extensive landscaped grounds to the northeast of Ballynagore. Main entrance gates to the southwest (15319010).

• Ballynagore House, gates/railings/walls, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Boundary wall associated with Ballinagore House (15319011), erected c.1855). Constructed using roughly coursed rubble limestone with crenellated cut stone coping over. Located to the south of Ballynagore House and to the east end of Ballynagore.

• Water pump, 1870–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron water pump, erected c.1885, comprising banded cylindrical shaft with fluted head having fluted spout, ‘cow tail’ curvilinear handle, and fluted ogee-dome cap with finial. Set in rendered walled enclosure, open to road to the southwest. Located to the southeast of Ballynagore.

• Knock House, house, 1800–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house with return, built c.1815, having a single-bay single-storey extension/wing attached to the north gable end. Pitched natural slate roof with rendered chimneystacks to either gable end. Roughcast rendered walls with square-headed window openings having cut stone sills and six-over-three pane windows to the first floor openings and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows over to the first floor. Central round-headed doorway to the main façade having a cut stone architraved surround with timber door and a spoke/radial fanlight over. Complex of single-storey outbuildings and a two-bay two-storey former coach house arranged around a courtyard to the north of the house, having rubble stone walls, pitched natural slate or corrugated metal roofs and square-headed openings. Roughcast rendered finish and a segmental-headed carriage arch to the coach house. A pair of rubble limestone gate piers (on circular-plan) having a wrought-iron flat bar gate gives access to outbuilding complex from the south. Main entrance gates serving the house to the south comprising a pair of cut limestone gate posts on octagonal plan. Set back from country lane in mature grounds. Located to the east of Ballynagore.

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 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 Knockycosker.

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

Name

Knockycosker

Area

1,792,236 m² (179.22 ha, 442.87 acres)

Civil parish

Newtown, and its townlands

Barony

Moycashel

Electoral division

Ballynagore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballynagore electoral division: 554 people in 201 households; 89% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballykilroe, Ballynagore, Clonyhague, Cloonagh, Knockmore, Lissakilly

Placenames

Knockycosker 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.