# Knockea, Co. Wexford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killesk, barony of Shelburne, Co. Wexford; in Irish An Chnocaigh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,652,055 m² (165.21 ha, 408.23 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,916 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 13 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Killesk, https://everytownland.com/wexford/parish/killesk.md - Barony: Shelburne - Electoral division: Killesk, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Wexford, https://everytownland.com/wexford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/53452 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 241518 - Centre: latitude 52.29894, longitude -6.897647 (WGS 84) ## 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); 22 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 379331: 367,837 m² (36.78 ha, 90.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/379331.md - Parcel 410998: 254,905 m² (25.49 ha, 62.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/410998.md - Parcel 5318103: 226,478 m² (22.65 ha, 55.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5318103.md - Parcel 384391: 168,812 m² (16.88 ha, 41.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/384391.md - Parcel 401224: 151,125 m² (15.11 ha, 37.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/401224.md - Parcel 407836: 130,026 m² (13 ha, 32.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/407836.md - Parcel 410996: 117,587 m² (11.76 ha, 29.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/410996.md - Parcel 401223: 84,184 m² (8.42 ha, 20.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/401223.md - Parcel 2705789: 34,007 m² (3.4 ha, 8.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2705789.md - Parcel 410999: 27,171 m² (2.72 ha, 6.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/410999.md - Parcel 429508: 14,251 m² (1.43 ha, 3.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/429508.md - Parcel 368709: 14,206 m² (1.42 ha, 3.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/368709.md - Parcel 401225: 6,756 m² (0.68 ha, 1.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/401225.md - Parcel 408269: 4,610 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/408269.md - Parcel 2840276: 4,181 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2840276.md - Parcel 4857772: 3,916 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4857772.md - Parcel 408530: 3,211 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/408530.md - Parcel 404363: 3,086 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/404363.md - Parcel 2705763: 2,858 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2705763.md - Parcel 364395: 2,855 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/364395.md - Parcel 423201: 2,649 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/423201.md - Parcel 4106222: 2,512 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4106222.md - Parcel 416485: 2,365 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/416485.md - Parcel 398719: 2,213 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/398719.md - Parcel 2726869: 2,136 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2726869.md - Parcel 2638852: 2,083 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2638852.md - Parcel 408893: 2,081 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/408893.md - Parcel 405247: 1,281 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/405247.md - Parcel 6132536: 703 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6132536.md - Parcel 2705778: 333 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2705778.md - Parcel 2705756: 91 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2705756.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 13 applications, newest first. - 28 Apr 2026, Wexford County Council 20260516: Granted (conditional). Permission. Permission for the erection of an agricultural building (slatted unit for. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/131074 - 17 Oct 2025, Wexford County Council 20251333: Granted (conditional). Permission. RED III Application. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/129920 - 6 May 2025, Wexford County Council 20250520: Granted (conditional). Permission. Permission for the proposed erection of alterations and extensions to an. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/128950 - 30 Jan 2024, Wexford County Council 20240076: Granted (conditional). Permission. Permission for the completion of the construction of a domestic garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/126600 - 17 Jan 2024, Wexford County Council 20240026: Granted (conditional). Permission, 1 home. Permission for development which consists of the construction of a two. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/126553 - 29 Sept 2022, Wexford County Council 20221291: Granted (conditional). Permission. Permission to fill a proposed site (poor agricultural lands) with clean stone,. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/124257 - 8 Sept 2022, Wexford County Council 20221203: N/a. Permission. Permission is sought to fill a proposed site (poor agricultural lands) with. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/124152 - 29 Jul 2022, Wexford County Council 20221036: N/a. Permission. Permission to fill a proposed site (poor agricultural lands) with clean stone. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/123978 - 21 Jul 2022, Wexford County Council 20220997: N/a. Permission. Permission to fill a proposed site (poor agricultural lands) with clean stone, s. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/123936 - 15 Feb 2022, Wexford County Council 20220189: Granted (conditional). Retention, 1 home. Permission for retention for the conversion of an outbuilding to habitable accom. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/123053 - 15 Mar 2021, Wexford County Council 20210362: Granted (conditional). Permission. Permission for the reclamation of land to include the following: 1. The widening. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/119868 - 18 Apr 2018, Wexford County Council 20180488: Granted (conditional). Permission. PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE ALONG WITH ALL AS. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/106034 - 25 Jan 2017, Wexford County Council 20170055: Granted (conditional). Permission. PERMISSION TO FILL PROPOSED SITE WITH CLEAN STONE, SUBSOIL AND TOPSOIL, RESEED. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/103042 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knockea. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WX039-068: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX039-068----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX039-086----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockea. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/wexford/knockea.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wexford/knockea.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wexford/knockea.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/wexford.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballykeerogemore: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballykeerogemore.md - Drillistown: https://everytownland.com/wexford/drillistown.md - Dunmain: https://everytownland.com/wexford/dunmain.md - Garryduff: https://everytownland.com/wexford/garryduff-241157.md - Killesk: https://everytownland.com/wexford/killesk.md - Rathumney: https://everytownland.com/wexford/rathumney.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/wexford/knockea - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wexford/knockea