Knockadreet

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockadreet, from 222 m² to 280,487 m² (28.05 ha, 69.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Knockadreet 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.

• 8 Apr 2026Conditional

  single storey extension and alterations to existing circa 53 sq. m. dwelling. The extension works measuring circa 92 sq. m. is located to the rear and side of the existing dwelling and incorporates a new open plan living area and ancillary rooms. The new works will provide for a new altered layout to the existing dwelling to provide for 3 no bedrooms including modifications to elevations and finishes, the works will also include for a new garage on site, a new well, a proposed new secondary treatment system and percolation area to current EPA guidelines, new landscaping and all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660280

• 15 Nov 2021Conditional

  dwelling, garage, new entrance on to public road, wastewater treatment unit, soil polishing filter, new well and associate works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 211362

• 1 Jul 2021N/a

  amendments to the development granted under plan ref. 18/291, to include for alterations to the existing farm dwelling for which a change of use to a short-term holiday letting was permitted and the sub-division of the short-term holiday let from the replacement farm dwelling and therefore not to be held in single ownership as required under Condition 4 of PRR 18/291 and associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21779

• 27 Apr 2020Conditional

  dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment unit & polishing filter, new well, new entrance onto public road and associate works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 20390

• 26 Sept 2018Conditional

  extension to existing farm shed and all associated ancillary site works and services

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 181059

• 31 Aug 2018Conditional

  a)replacement single family dwelling house, 320sqm, part single-storey and part two-storey in lieu of existing single storey dwelling house; b)change of use of existing house to a farm office; c)the construction of a new waste water treatment plant and; d)associated planting and hard and soft landscaping

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18977

• 12 Mar 2018Refused

  demolition of existing stone building to facilitate the construction of a new semi detached building consisting of an administration building and a staff accommodation building to complement existing equestrian yard and livery, bored well, wastewater treatment system to current EPA standards and all associated ancillary site works and services

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18250

• 8 Mar 2018N/a

  demolition of existing stone building to facilitate the construction of a new semi detached building consisting of an administration building and a staff accommodation building to complement existing equestrian yard and livery, bored well, wastewater treatment system to current EPA standards and all associated ancillary site works and services

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18228

• 17 Jul 2017Conditional

  single storey extensions to sides, rear and front of existing dwelling and all associated site works and services

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 17857

• 5 Jul 2017N/a

  single storey extensions to side, rear and front of existing dwelling and all associated ancillary site works and services

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 17815

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knockadreet.

Recorded monuments

• WI018-015 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on level ground at the foot of a steep NE-facing slope. Circular enclosure (diam. c. 75m) hachured on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. Not visiBle at ground level. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008

• WI018-016 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a gentle SW-facing slope. About one third of a circular enclosure (diam. 28m) (W portion) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 3m; H 1.2m) preserved in an otherwise fairly narrow field boundary. No indication of the remainder of the site shown as circular on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. No indication of an entrance, external fosse or internal features. Test excavations carried out in 2005 prior to the construction of the dwelling to the NE did not reveal anything of archaeological significance (Molloy 2008, 419). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 20 December 2012 Revised by: Claire Breen

• WI018-017 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a very gentle SE-facing slope. Circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) hachured on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. Not visible at ground level. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockadreet.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Knockadreet, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3318 (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.

No address of the register names Knockadreet with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Knockadreet · Cnoc an Droichid

Area

2,335,671 m² (233.57 ha, 577.16 acres)

Civil parish

Killiskey, and its townlands

Barony

Newcastle

Electoral division

Newcastle Upper, the unit of the census

Census 2022

4,790 people lived in 1,619 households in the Newcastle Upper electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagolan, Ballyduff Upper, Boleynass Lower, Boleynass Upper, Carrignamuck Upper, Knockfadda, Roundwood, Tomcoyle Upper, Tomdarragh

Placenames

Knockadreet 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.