Knockahone

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockahone, from 535 m² to 21,362 m² (2.14 ha, 5.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Knockahone 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.

• 6 Oct 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of domestic garage/shed ancillary to main dwelling

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20251261

• 17 Sept 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the retention of extensions & minor alterations to an existing

  Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211468

• 12 Apr 2018Granted (unconditional)

  ALTERNATIVE HOUSE DESIGN TO THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED REF NO (20072869) TO CONSIST

  Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20130189

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781
• Special Protection Area: Wexford Harbour and Slobs SPA 004076
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slaney River Valley 000781

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockahone.

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1870–1875 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-span railway bridge over road, opened 1872. Part creeper- or ivy-covered red brick English Garden Wall bond walls with benchmark-inscribed rock faced hammered granite quoins to corners supporting parapets having cut-granite chamfered coping centred on reinforced riveted rolled steel girders. Sited spanning road on a corner site.

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 high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knockahone.

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 Knockahone with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Knockahone · Cnoc na hUamhan

Area

109,817 m² (10.98 ha, 27.14 acres)

Civil parish

Carrick, and its townlands

Barony

Shelmaliere West

Electoral division

Carrick, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Carrick electoral division: 1,831 people in 630 households; 89% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardcandrisk, Ballygoman, Ballymichael, Cullentra

Placenames

Knockahone 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.