# Knockandort, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Dunlavin, barony of Talbotstown Lower, Co. Wicklow. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 612,478 m² (61.25 ha, 151.35 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 116,990 m² (11.7 ha, 28.91 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Dunlavin, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/dunlavin.md - Barony: Talbotstown Lower - Electoral division: Dunlavin, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/54708 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250922 - Centre: latitude 53.063213, longitude -6.724366 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1278441: 375,493 m² (37.55 ha, 92.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278441.md - Parcel 1285151: 141,766 m² (14.18 ha, 35.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1285151.md - Parcel 1289193: 92,214 m² (9.22 ha, 22.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1289193.md - Parcel 1287991: 2,303 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1287991.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 6 applications, newest first. - 24 Jul 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560565: Conditional. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560565/0 - 4 Jun 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560415: Conditional. Permission. single storey dwelling house, onsite secondary sewerage treatment system, new entrance on to public road, domestic garage, and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560415/0 - 31 Mar 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560231: Refused. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560231/0 - 15 Jan 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560011: N/a. Permission. new dwelling house, onsite sewerage treatment system, domestic garage, alterations to existing entrance and all ancillary siteworks. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560011/0 - 23 Sept 2022, Wicklow County Council 221034: Conditional. Permission. dwelling house, domestic garage, O'Reilly Oaktown sewerage treatment system, alterations to existing entrance and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/221034/0 - 13 Sept 2021, Wicklow County Council 211123: Conditional. Permission. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/211123/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Dunlavin Marshes, site code 001772 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockandort. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockandort. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/knockandort.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/knockandort.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/knockandort.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Knockandort with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow: https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Dunlavin Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/dunlavin-lower.md - Gilbinstown (Co. Kildare): https://everytownland.com/kildare/gilbinstown.md - Lugatryna: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/lugatryna.md - Milltown: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/milltown.md - Usk (Co. Kildare): https://everytownland.com/kildare/usk.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/knockandort - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/knockandort