Knockreagh
Townland in the civil parish of Ballycarney, barony of Scarawalsh, Co. Wexford; in Irish An Cnoc Riabhach
- Area
- 64.5 ha
- 159 acres
- Land parcels
- 17
- registered freehold, median 4,366 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 16
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockreagh, from 246 m² to 350,037 m² (35 ha, 86.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Knockreagh 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
10 Nov 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of existing steel framed building in a different
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20251447
3 Dec 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect an extension to existing steel framed building
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241492
23 Jan 2024Refused
Permission to erect an extension to existing steel framed building previously
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240054
19 Apr 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a steel framed building for the purpose of commercial storag
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220500
30 Mar 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling house and domestic
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220418
27 Jan 2022Refused
Permission for Retention of partial works to an agricultural steel framed shed
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20220093
13 Jan 2022N/a
Permission for retention of partial works to an agricultural steel framed shed
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20220023
14 Dec 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling house and domestic
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211969
14 Dec 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling house and domestic
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211968
24 Jun 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house & garage with associated
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210988
21 Jul 2020Refused
Permission for (a) The proposed erection of a new car showrooms building, (b) th
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200814
6 Jul 2020N/a
Permission for (a) the proposed erection of a new Car Showrooms building,
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200731
24 Apr 2020N/a
Permission for (a) the proposed erection of a new car showrooms building, (b) th
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200465
28 Jun 2019Granted (conditional)
RETENTION OF (A) THE USAGE OF PART OF THE EXISTING BUILDING ON SITE AS CAR SERVI
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20190913
26 Nov 2018Refused
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING YARD FOR STORAGE OF CAR
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20181614
16 Jan 2017Granted (unconditional)
ERECTION OF TWO FULLY SERVICED TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSES AND DOMESTIC GARAGES.
Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20111153
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 Knockreagh.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockreagh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockreagh.
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 low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knockreagh.
- 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 Knockreagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Knockreagh · An Cnoc Riabhach
- Area
- 644,727 m² (64.47 ha, 159.32 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballycarney, and its townlands
- Barony
- Scarawalsh
- Electoral division
- Tombrack, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Tombrack electoral division: 840 people in 290 households; 90% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballingale, Ballyboy, Clobemon, Kildalloo, Strahart
- Placenames
- Knockreagh 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.