Knockduff
Townland in the civil parish of Templeshanbo, barony of Scarawalsh, Co. Wexford; in Irish An Cnoc Dubh
- Area
- 189.8 ha
- 469 acres
- Land parcels
- 40
- registered freehold, median 4,881 m² (0.49 ha, 1.21 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockduff, from 56 m² to 336,465 m² (33.65 ha, 83.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
19 Mar 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for development at a site (the Castledockrell Wind Farm)
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250312
10 Mar 2025N/a
Permission for development at a site (the Castledockrell Wind Farm)
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250273
11 Oct 2022N/a
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20221328
11 Feb 2022Refused
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house & garage with associated
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220170
4 Feb 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house & garage with associated
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220130
2 Feb 2017N/a
PERMISSION FOR A VARIATION TO CONDITION NO. 7 OF PLANNING PERMISSION REF.2004470
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170097
22 Feb 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOC
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20160170
27 Jan 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT AN AGRICULTURAL ENTRANCE ON LAND WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WO
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160056
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 Knockduff.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockduff.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knockduff.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Knockduff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Knockduff · An Cnoc Dubh
- Area
- 1,898,448 m² (189.84 ha, 469.12 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templeshanbo, and its townlands
- Barony
- Scarawalsh
- Electoral division
- Ballindaggan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballindaggan electoral division: 818 people in 290 households; 81% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyhamilton, Ballynakill, Ballynelahillan, Carranroe, Clonjordan, Sroughmore, Tomanoole
- 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.