Knockarigg

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockarigg, from 718 m² to 225,302 m² (22.53 ha, 55.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Knockarigg 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.

• 23 Nov 2023Conditional

  conversion of farm outhouse into a residential unit for the purpose of short term letting, a wastewater treatment system and all ancillary works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23855

• 25 Apr 2023Conditional

  change of use of the existing stone building from accommodation to accommodation for the purpose of short term letting

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 23408

• 1 Mar 2023Conditional

  change of use from a residential use to a commercial short term letting use

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23196

• 19 Dec 2022N/a

  change of use of the existing stone building from accommodation to accommodation for the purpose of short term letting

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 221369

• 22 Mar 2022N/a

  change of use of the existing stone building from accommodation, to accommodation for the purpose of short term letting

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 22275

• 15 Mar 2021Conditional

  replacement single storey dwelling house replacing the existing dwelling which is to be demolished and to upgrade the wastewater treatment system together with all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21269

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 Knockarigg.

Recorded monuments

• WI020-008 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a gentle N-facing slope. Circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) hachured on the 1910 OS 6-inch map but 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

• WI020-012 Burial ground
  Description

  A rectangular burial ground (dims. 20m x 15m) defined by iron railings containing three 19th-century headstones. According to the OS Name Book (Ballynure parish, no. 116, 4) there is a tombstone here, that of the late James Wall Esqre. of Knockrigg, dated 1791. The burial ground is described as a ‘very ancient grave yard’. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 12 November 2012

• WI020-013 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a gentle NE-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 30.5m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.3m) and an external fosse (Wth 4.6m; max. D 1.5m), now partly levelled. No indication of an entrance or internal features. 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

• Station House, worker's house, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey former railway worker's house, built c.1865. The house is constructed in rubble granite with brick dressings and some granite quoins. To the rear there is a large late 20th century extension and a canted bay has been added to the south gable. The window openings are flat-headed with mainly two over two timber sash frames. The pitched roof is finished with natural slate with cast-iron rainwater goods; eaves are slightly overhanging and bargeboards are plain. Chimneystacks are brick with slightly corbelled caps and clay pots. The house faces the road and is slightly set back behind a low fieldstone wall with a timber gate.

• Water pump, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding water pump, erected c.1880. The cast-iron pump has a cow tail handle and is set on a slightly raised platform; this has granite kerbs and octagonal granite pillars with wrought-iron rails. The centre of the platform has been renewed in concrete with chevron drainage channels and a cast-iron drain. It is prominently sited at the junction of a road.

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 Knockarigg, 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 Knockarigg.

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

Name

Knockarigg

Area

1,317,379 m² (131.74 ha, 325.53 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynure, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Upper

Electoral division

The Grange, the unit of the census

Census 2022

472 people lived in 167 households in the The Grange electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynure Demesne, Baronstown Upper, Grangecon Hill, Grangecon Parks, Knockarigg Demesne, Knockarigg Hill, Knocknamuck Lower, Knocknamuck Upper

Placenames

Knockarigg 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.