Knockandort

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockandort, from 2,303 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres) to 375,493 m² (37.55 ha, 92.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Knockandort 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.

• 24 Jul 2025Conditional

  173 sq m two-storey extension to 150 sq m dwelling house, and permission sought for new secondary sewerage treatment system and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2560565

• 4 Jun 2025Conditional

  single storey dwelling house, onsite secondary sewerage treatment system, new entrance on to public road, domestic garage, and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560415

• 31 Mar 2025Refused

  of 173 sq m two-storey extension to 150 sq m dwelling house, and Permission sought for new secondary sewerage treatment system and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2560231

• 15 Jan 2025N/a

  new dwelling house, onsite sewerage treatment system, domestic garage, alterations to existing entrance and all ancillary siteworks

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560011

• 23 Sept 2022Conditional

  dwelling house, domestic garage, O'Reilly Oaktown sewerage treatment system, alterations to existing entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221034

• 13 Sept 2021Conditional

  (1) Demolition of existing lean-to agricultural building and silage pit retaining walls. (2) A geomembrane lined storage lagoon (including a leak detection manhole, agitation point, safety fencing and all ancillary works) for the storage of brewing and distilling wastes for recovery to agricultural land, tillage and grassland. (3) New recessed site entrance

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 211123

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Dunlavin Marshes 001772

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockandort.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knockandort, 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knockandort.

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 Knockandort with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Knockandort

Area

612,478 m² (61.25 ha, 151.35 acres)

Civil parish

Dunlavin, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Lower

Electoral division

Dunlavin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,580 people lived in 526 households in the Dunlavin electoral division. 66% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Dunlavin Lower, Gilbinstown (Co. Kildare), Lugatryna, Milltown, Usk (Co. Kildare)

Placenames

Knockandort 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.