Knockea
Townland in the civil parish of Killesk, barony of Shelburne, Co. Wexford; in Irish An Chnocaigh
- Area
- 165.2 ha
- 408 acres
- Land parcels
- 31
- registered freehold, median 3,916 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockea, from 91 m² to 367,837 m² (36.78 ha, 90.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Knockea 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
28 Apr 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of an agricultural building (slatted unit for
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260516
17 Oct 2025Granted (conditional)
RED III Application
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251333
6 May 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed erection of alterations and extensions to an
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250520
30 Jan 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for the completion of the construction of a domestic garage
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240076
17 Jan 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for development which consists of the construction of a two
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20240026
29 Sept 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission to fill a proposed site (poor agricultural lands) with clean stone,
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221291
8 Sept 2022N/a
Permission is sought to fill a proposed site (poor agricultural lands) with
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221203
29 Jul 2022N/a
Permission to fill a proposed site (poor agricultural lands) with clean stone
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221036
21 Jul 2022N/a
Permission to fill a proposed site (poor agricultural lands) with clean stone, s
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220997
15 Feb 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention for the conversion of an outbuilding to habitable accom
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220189
15 Mar 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the reclamation of land to include the following: 1. The widening
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210362
18 Apr 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE ALONG WITH ALL AS
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20180488
25 Jan 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO FILL PROPOSED SITE WITH CLEAN STONE, SUBSOIL AND TOPSOIL, RESEED
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170055
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 Knockea.
Recorded monuments
- WX039-068 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a fairly level landscape. The faint cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m) defined by a single faint fosse feature is visible on aerial photographs (ASIAP, WX 104, 10-12). 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: 29 January, 2013 Amended: 1 May, 2014
- WX039-086 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located towards the bottom of a NW-facing slope of Knockea Hill. The cropmark of an oval feature (dims c. 40m NE-SW; c. 25m NW-SE) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on digital aerial photographs (WX039-086_1 to _3) taken in 2006. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 29 January, 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockea.
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 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knockea.
- 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 Knockea with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Knockea · An Chnocaigh
- Area
- 1,652,055 m² (165.21 ha, 408.23 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killesk, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shelburne
- Electoral division
- Killesk, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killesk electoral division: 763 people in 291 households; 86% of households own their home; 46% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballykeerogemore, Drillistown, Dunmain, Garryduff, Killesk, Rathumney
- Placenames
- Knockea 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.