Knockduff

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockduff, from 64 m² to 159,249 m² (15.92 ha, 39.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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.

• 12 Nov 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of a two storey domestic dwelling

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251461

• 11 Apr 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of (1) alterations and extensions to dwelling (2)

  Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230382

• 5 Nov 2018Granted (conditional)

  PLANNING PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, ON-SITE TREA

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20181519

• 17 Oct 2018N/a

  PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, ONSITE TREATMENT

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20181434

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

• WX012-039001 Enclosure
  Description

  Located on a slight NW-facing slope. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) defined by a single fosse is visible on Google Earth (28/06/2018; 14/07/2018). There is an entrance gap (Wth c. 3m) at ENE and the ring-ditch (WX012-039002-) is c. 3m outside the perimeter at E. The enclosure is cut by the cropmark of two parallel NNW-SSE field drains associated with an unmapped field bank E of the centre and the cropmark of a field drain runs ENE from these at the S edge of the enclosure. It was first reported by Catherine McLoughlinn. See the attached view from Google Earth (14/07/2018) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 30 March 2020

• WX012-039002 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Located on a slight NW-facing slope. The cropmark of a small circular enclosure (diam. c. 5m) defined by a single fairly wide fosse (Wth c. 1-2m) is visible c. 3m outside the perimeter of enclosure (WX012-039001-) at E only on Google Earth (14/07/2018). It was first reported by Catherine McLoughlin. See the attached view from Google Earth (14/07/2018) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 30 March 2020

Architectural heritage

• Mill (water), 1845–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Mill complex, established 1847, on an L-shaped plan including (east): Attached six-bay two-storey mill on a rectangular plan. Renovated, ----. Hipped slate roof with cay ridge tiles, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered slate flagged eaves. Replacement cement rendered battered walls bellcast over rendered plinth with concealed flush quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber casement windows; (west): Attached four-bay two-storey farmhouse on a rectangular plan with five-bay two-storey rear (south) elevation. Occupied, 1911. Renovated, ----. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered slate flagged eaves. Replacement cement rendered battered wall to front (north) elevation bellcast over rendered plinth; roughcast surface finish (remainder) on rendered plinth with rendered "bas-relief" strips to ends. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber casement windows. Set in landscaped grounds.

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 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_3219 (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

274,094 m² (27.41 ha, 67.73 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmakilloge, and its townlands

Barony

Ballaghkeen North

Electoral division

Courtown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Courtown electoral division: 3,012 people in 1,030 households; 79% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 34% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Banogehill, Carriganeagh, Coolnaveagh, Knockmullen, Mill Lands, Raheenagurren West, Ramstown Lower

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.