Knockadawk
Knockadawk is a townland in the civil parish of Kiltrisk, barony of Gorey, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Cnoc an Dabhacaigh.
- Area
- 109 ha
- 269 acres
- Land parcels
- 12
- registered freehold, median 61,279 m² (6.13 ha, 15.14 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockadawk, from 878 m² to 274,165 m² (27.42 ha, 67.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Knockadawk 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
25 Oct 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of (1) alterations to dwelling (2) revised entrance
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20241320
10 Jul 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230792
23 Mar 2023Refused
Permission to (1) demolish existing dwelling and attached outbuilding and
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230295
21 Apr 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage and all associa
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220522
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knockadawk.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockadawk.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockadawk.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Knockadawk, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- 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 Knockadawk.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Knockadawk with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Knockadawk · Cnoc an Dabhacaigh
- Area
- 1,090,267 m² (109.03 ha, 269.41 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kiltrisk, and its townlands
- Barony
- Gorey
- Electoral division
- Ford, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 691 people lived in 261 households in the Ford electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 51% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 32% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Knockadawk 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.