Knockskemolin
Townland in the civil parish of Kilnamanagh, barony of Ballaghkeen North, Co. Wexford; in Irish Cnoc Sceiche Moling
- Area
- 61.4 ha
- 152 acres
- Land parcels
- 25
- registered freehold, median 3,998 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockskemolin, from 35 m² to 148,480 m² (14.85 ha, 36.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 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 Knockskemolin 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
6 Jun 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of (i) relocation of front entrance door and window on
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250682
18 Apr 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of the development of a detached domestic
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240424
25 Jul 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission to change the use of existing domestic garage from domestic storage
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230852
20 Jan 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the upgrade of the effluent treatment system together with
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230044
13 Sept 2022Refused
Permission to change the use of existing domestic garage from domestic storage t
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221221
31 May 2022Refused
Permission to change the use of existing domestic garage from domestic
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220724
5 Jul 2021Granted (conditional)
1. Permission to change the use of part of existing dwelling from living to Mont
Retention, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211061
21 Jun 2021N/a
1. Permission to change the use of part of existing dwelling from living to Mont
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20210963
23 Oct 2020N/a
Permission for the construction of a temporary single storey prefab unit
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20201234
17 Jul 2020Refused
Permission to erect a serviced dwelling house and to carry out all associated an
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200801
20 Dec 2019Refused
PERMISSION TO ERECT A SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND TO CARRY OUT ALL ASSOCIATED
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191716
31 May 2019Refused
PERMISSION TO ERECT A SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE, TO ERECT A DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190767
11 Mar 2019Refused
PERMISSION TO ERECT A SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE, TO ERECT A DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190303
4 Mar 2019N/a
PERMISSION TO ERECT A SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE TO ERECT A DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190271
23 Jul 2018Refused
PERMISSION TO ERECT A SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE, A DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE AND TO CA
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180997
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 Knockskemolin.
Recorded monuments
- WX021-047 Enclosure
Description
Situated on the SE-facing slope of a NE-SW ridge. The cropmark of a subcircular area (dims c. 35m E-W; c. 28m NE-SW) is visible only on Google Earth (14/07/2018). It is bisected by a NW-SE field bank and is barely visible SW of this feature in what is probably a root crop. It was first reported by Simon Dowling. See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 6 March 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockskemolin.
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 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 Knockskemolin.
- 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 Knockskemolin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Knockskemolin · Cnoc Sceiche Moling
- Area
- 614,101 m² (61.41 ha, 151.75 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilnamanagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen North
- Electoral division
- Wells, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Wells electoral division: 887 people in 295 households; 83% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinvack, Raheenduff, Raheennaskeagh Lower, Raheennaskeagh Upper, Wellshill
- Placenames
- Knockskemolin 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.