Knottown
Knottown is a townland in the civil parish of Ardcavan, barony of Shelmaliere East, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Cnotán.
- Area
- 92.6 ha
- 229 acres
- Land parcels
- 57
- registered freehold, median 1,504 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knottown, from 29 m² to 284,325 m² (28.43 ha, 70.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Knottown 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
15 Jul 2026Granted (conditional)
for a single story flat roof extension to the side and rear of existing dwellin
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260948
23 Jul 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for rentention and completion of the erection of a boundary wall and
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20211181
25 Mar 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of domestic garage & retention of porch to existing dwe
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20200377
28 Feb 2020Granted (conditional)
PLANNING PERMISSION FOR DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF (A) 2 NO. CAR DEALERSHIP SHO
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200245
14 Jan 2020N/a
PERMISSION FOR (A) 2 NO. CAR DEALERSHIP SHOWROOMS ALONG WITH SERVICE AND REPAIR
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200026
17 Dec 2019N/a
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF (A) 2 NO. CAR DEALERSHIP SHOWROOMS ALONG
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191675
16 Aug 2019Granted (conditional)
RETENTION OF LOG CABIN AND CONCRETE BASE FOR USE AS A DOMESTIC STORE/STUDIO AND
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20191166
21 Dec 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE THE FOLLOWING PROPOSED MIXED DEVELOPMENT ON ZONED LANDS (A) E
Permission, 59 homes · Wexford County Council, 20161426
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781
- Special Protection Area: Wexford Harbour and Slobs SPA 004076
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Wexford Slobs And Harbour 000712
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knottown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knottown.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Knottown, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3054 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Knottown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Knottown · Cnotán
- Area
- 925,943 m² (92.59 ha, 228.81 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ardcavan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shelmaliere East
- Electoral division
- Ardcavan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 3,011 people lived in 1,125 households in the Ardcavan electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardcavan, Ballycrane, Ballytramon, Crosstown
- Placenames
- Knottown 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.