Knockanevin

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockanevin, from 110,674 m² (11.07 ha, 27.35 acres) to 256,038 m² (25.6 ha, 63.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Knockanevin 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.

• 22 Dec 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of a detached storage building

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20251714

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 Knockanevin.

Recorded monuments

• WX027-027 Moated site
  Description

  Situated on a low-lying landscape with higher ground all around. This is a wedge shaped, scrub-covered area with raised corners (dims. 42m E-W; 22m N-S at W to 41m N-S at E) defined by earthen banks (at W: Wth 5m; int. H 0.7m) on all sides except the S. There is external flat bottomed moat (at W: Wth of top 10m; int. D 1.6m; ext. D 1.4m) at W and N. The fosse at E (Wth 5m) has a berm (Wth 5m) between it and the interior of the site. There is a stream adjacent to the moat at S (total Wth 20m; int. D 2.5m; ext, D 3 4m). There is a causeway (Wth 4.5m; H 1m) across the moat on the E side, and there is a counterscarp bank or external field bank (at W: Wth 5m; ext. H 1m) at W, N and E. (Barry 1977, 223, WX 80) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 18 July 2012

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to ground floor. "Improved", pre-1903, producing present composition. Occupied, 1911. Now disused. Pitched slate roofs including pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), clay ridge tiles terminating in red brick Running bond chimney stacks having corbelled stepped capping supporting yellow terracotta tapered pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Fine roughcast battered walls. Square-headed window openings with lichen-spotted sills, and concealed dressings framing three-over-three (ground floor) or two-over-two (first floor) timber sash windows centred on two-over-two timber sash window (ground floor). Set in unkempt grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having moss-covered shallow pyramidal capping supporting flat iron "farm gate".

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

At the centre of the townland of Knockanevin, about 1 in 10 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

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

Name

Knockanevin · An Cnocán Aoibhinn

Area

366,820 m² (36.68 ha, 90.64 acres)

Civil parish

Castleellis, and its townlands

Barony

Ballaghkeen South

Electoral division

Bolaboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,252 people lived in 440 households in the Bolaboy electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Askasilla, Ballynagore, Ballyroebeg, Castleellis, Courtclogh Lower, Courtclogh Upper

Placenames

Knockanevin 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.