# Knocks, Co. Wexford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Tomhaggard, barony of Bargy, Co. Wexford; in Irish Na Cnoic. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 445,550 m² (44.56 ha, 110.1 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,747 m² (0.37 ha, 0.93 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Tomhaggard, https://everytownland.com/wexford/parish/tomhaggard.md - Barony: Bargy - Electoral division: Tomhaggard, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 550 people lived in 205 households in the Tomhaggard electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 14% 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/54483 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 241547 - Centre: latitude 52.223683, longitude -6.501373 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocks, from 364 m² to 53,976 m² (5.4 ha, 13.34 acres); 9 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 396056: 53,976 m² (5.4 ha, 13.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/396056.md - Parcel 372796: 32,781 m² (3.28 ha, 8.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/372796.md - Parcel 404924: 17,080 m² (1.71 ha, 4.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/404924.md - Parcel 363337: 9,688 m² (0.97 ha, 2.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/363337.md - Parcel 381866: 8,745 m² (0.87 ha, 2.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/381866.md - Parcel 412259: 4,382 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/412259.md - Parcel 365799: 4,280 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/365799.md - Parcel 372998: 4,212 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/372998.md - Parcel 408899: 3,752 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/408899.md - Parcel 426137: 3,742 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/426137.md - Parcel 414549: 2,499 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/414549.md - Parcel 408489: 2,450 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/408489.md - Parcel 363338: 2,383 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/363338.md - Parcel 379479: 2,198 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/379479.md - Parcel 379345: 2,148 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/379345.md - Parcel 413627: 2,031 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/413627.md - Parcel 362683: 1,188 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/362683.md - Parcel 396438: 364 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/396438.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Knocks 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) 3 applications, newest first. - 30 Aug 2024, Wexford County Council 20241050: Granted (conditional). Permission. Permission for the proposed renovation of a derelict dwelling, demolition of. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/127703 - 19 Aug 2024, Wexford County Council 20240988: N/a. Permission. Permission for the proposed renovation of a derelict dwelling and for the. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/127638 - 29 Aug 2023, Wexford County Council 20231012: Granted (conditional). Permission, 1 home. Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house and domestic. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/125886 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 Knocks. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knocks. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Mount Eaton, farm house, 1830–1840, Regional interest, registry number 15704769, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WX®no=15704769. Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan with two-bay two-storey side elevations; single-bay (single-bay deep) two-storey lean-to central return (south). Sold, 1879. Occupied, 1911. Sold, 1968. Hipped slate roof on a U-shaped plan centred on lean-to slate roof (south) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks on axis with ridge having stepped capping supporting terracotta octagonal pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on timber box eaves retaining cast-iron hoppers and downpipes. Roughcast walls bellcast over rendered plinth. Hipped segmental-headed central door opening approached by flight of three cut-granite steps with timber mullions supporting timber transom, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having sidelights below overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing eight-over-eight timber sash windows without horns. Interior including (ground floor): central entrance hall with egg-and-dart-detailed decorative plasterwork cornice to ceiling centred on "Acanthus"-detailed ceiling rose; round- or segmental-headed opening into staircase hall with carved timber Classical-style surround framing fanlight; staircase hall (south) retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, staircase on a dog leg plan with timber balusters supporting carved timber banister, and carved timber surrounds to door openings to landing framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set in landscaped grounds. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Knocks, about 1 in 20 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knocks. - 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/knocks.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wexford/knocks.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wexford/knocks.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Knocks 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) - Bargy: https://everytownland.com/wexford/bargy.md - Littletown: https://everytownland.com/wexford/littletown.md - Moortown Little: https://everytownland.com/wexford/moortown-little-241727.md - Randalstown: https://everytownland.com/wexford/randalstown.md - Tenacre: https://everytownland.com/wexford/tenacre-242160.md - Tomhaggard: https://everytownland.com/wexford/tomhaggard.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/knocks - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wexford/knocks