Knockduff

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockduff, from 179 m² to 376,569 m² (37.66 ha, 93.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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 Knockduff 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.

• 8 Jul 2026Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention for 4no. rooflights to front plane of roof and 2 no.

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20260898

• 12 Apr 2024N/a

  Permission for the erection of an extension to the existing dwelling

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240403

• 30 Nov 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the proposed construction of a new vehicle entrance to existing d

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211861

• 9 Oct 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house, carport, garden

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201159

• 11 May 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE A

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20180619

• 17 Feb 2016Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE/ STORE AND ASSOCIA

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20160145

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 Knockduff.

Recorded monuments

• WX026-031 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as a circular enclosure on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and located towards the top of the S-facing slope of a broad hill. The cropmark of an oval enclosure (dims. c. 50m N-S; c. 30m E-W) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on aerial photographs (MM (32) 31-36). It can also be seen on the OSI series of aerial photographs (2005). 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: 12 July 2012

• WX026-094 Burnt spread
  Description

  Located at the S base of Cooltiege Hill. An area of broken and burnt stone (diam. c. 25m) is visible when the ground is ploughed, and it is visible on Google Earth (11/06/2002, 25/05/2017). The burnt stone material is bisected by a NE-SW field bank, and a polished stone axehead was found in the material which has now been deposited with the National Museum of Ireland. It was first reported and recorded by Colm Moriarty. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 26/11/2019

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockduff.

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 5 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2918 (ZIP).

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

Name

Knockduff · An Cnoc Dubh

Area

1,342,845 m² (134.28 ha, 331.82 acres)

Civil parish

Clonmore, and its townlands

Barony

Shelmaliere West

Electoral division

Bree, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Bree electoral division: 1,509 people in 508 households; 89% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybuckley, Coolteige, Kilgibbon, Knocknagross, Mackmine

Placenames

Knockduff 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.