Knockroe
Townland in the civil parish of Ardamine, barony of Ballaghkeen North, Co. Wexford; in Irish An Cnoc Rua
- Area
- 36.3 ha
- 90 acres
- Land parcels
- 36
- registered freehold, median 2,636 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential (R)
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockroe, from 84 m² to 99,302 m² (9.93 ha, 24.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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
- R2Existing Residential (R) (Existing residential)
Courtown and Riverchapel Local Area Plan 2015-2021 (as extended), Wexford · 10 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Open Space and Amenity (OSA) (Open space, park)
Courtown and Riverchapel Local Area Plan 2015-2021 (as extended), Wexford · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Leisure and Amenity (LA) (Open space, park)
Courtown and Riverchapel Local Area Plan 2015-2021 (as extended), Wexford · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
26 Jun 2026Refused
Permission to erect a new bungalow type dwelling with detached domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260836
28 May 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for revisions to the permitted scheme reg. no. 20240741, to amend
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20260694
5 Feb 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the retention of alterations to a previously granted
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250124
18 Dec 2024Refused
Permission for retention for an entrance gate
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20241579
22 Nov 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission to install a domestic wastewater treatment system on site
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20241452
26 Jun 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for revisions to the permitted scheme reg. no. 20231001
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240741
28 Aug 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a two storey extension to the side of the
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231001
7 Dec 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage and all
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20221621
19 May 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention for 1. The construction of a domestic garage
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20220659
14 Mar 2022Refused
Permission for the erection of a machinery storage shed and all associated site
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220322
16 Jul 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a two-storey extension to side of existing nursin
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211141
7 Oct 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTNG PUBLIC SERVICES AND
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191367
24 Jul 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO RENOVATE MY EXISTING DWELLING AND ERECT AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR O
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170960
22 Aug 2016Refused
PERMISSION TO ERECT A DORMER BUNGALOW WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE AND CONNECTION TO PUB
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20160934
13 Jun 2016Granted (conditional)
ALTERATIONS TO PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PLANNING PERMISSION (PL.REG.NO. 20100823 REFER
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160657
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 Knockroe.
Recorded monuments
- WX012-008 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Situated on a slight S-facing slope in a low-lying landscape, c. 1km from the sea-shore. A circular feature (diam. c. 45m) overlain by a N-S field bank is visible on aerial photographs (GSIAP: T 143/4). No feature is visible at ground level in pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 13 April, 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockroe.
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 20 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_3271 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Knockroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Knockroe · An Cnoc Rua
- Area
- 363,306 m² (36.33 ha, 89.77 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ardamine, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen North
- Electoral division
- Ardamine, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ardamine electoral division: 4,410 people in 1,599 households; 70% of households own their home; 59% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 23% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinagrann Lower, Ballinakill, Ballinatray Upper, Doughal, Killegran, Middletown
- Placenames
- Knockroe 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.