Knocktown
Townland in the civil parish of Duncormick, barony of Bargy, Co. Wexford; in Irish Baile an Chnoic
- Area
- 92 ha
- 227 acres
- Land parcels
- 54
- registered freehold, median 4,022 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocktown, from 184 m² to 133,248 m² (13.32 ha, 32.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Knocktown 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
12 Nov 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house, including a
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20251462
31 Jan 2025Refused
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20250107
2 Jul 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for the following: (a) retention of the existing vehicle
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240760
27 Apr 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed erection of a fully serviced single storey dwelling
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230448
21 Dec 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for a large side extension to existing house and upgrade of existing
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221709
2 Mar 2022Refused
Permission for a single storey dwelling house, treatment system and all
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220263
20 Dec 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed erection of a fully serviced single storey dwelling
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20212011
16 Mar 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE & GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170321
6 Dec 2016Refused
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20161353
29 Sept 2016N/a
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE & GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20161069
17 Aug 2016Granted (conditional)
RETENTION OF ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING AND FOR PLANNING PERMISSION FOR RE
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20160917
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 Knocktown.
Recorded monuments
- WX046-021 Mound
Description
Marked as small circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 15m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is situated on a fairly level landscape at a point where two field banks now meet, and with a small NW-SE stream c. 100m to the S. No antiquity is visible at ground level. 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: 20 August, 2013
- WX046-078 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Situated on a slight rise in a gently rolling landscape with a NW-SE stream c. 100m to the SW. There is widespread local knowledge of a circular enclosure defined by a low earthen bank which was removed in 1985. It is not visible at ground level in pasture. 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: 20 August, 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knocktown.
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, 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_2885 (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
- Knocktown, Duncormick6 sales
The townland
- Name
- Knocktown · Baile an Chnoic
- Area
- 919,934 m² (91.99 ha, 227.32 acres)
- Civil parish
- Duncormick, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bargy
- Electoral division
- Kilcowan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilcowan electoral division: 525 people in 204 households; 88% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Graiguesallagh, Robinstown, Russellstown, Scar
- Placenames
- Knocktown 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.