Knockatomcoyle
Townland in the civil parish of Mullinacuff, barony of Shillelagh, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Cnoc na dTom Coill
- Area
- 457.8 ha
- 1,131 acres
- Land parcels
- 75
- registered freehold, median 18,770 m² (1.88 ha, 4.64 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
75 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockatomcoyle, from 26 m² to 587,255 m² (58.73 ha, 145.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Knockatomcoyle 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
16 Dec 2021Conditional
(1) Self contained unit for tourism use. (2) Change of site boundary previously granted under 19/590. (3) Relocate existing camp sites no 9 to no 16. (4) Connection to existing services and associated works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 211508
25 Aug 2021Conditional
construct a dwellinghouse with services, domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 211056
9 Aug 2021N/a
construct a dwellinghouse with service, domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21985
31 May 2019Conditional
extension to the side and rear of existing farmhouse, change of use from farm house to 2 self catering tourist accommodation units, change of use from milking parlour to a tourist residential only coffee dock / lounging area
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 19590
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knockatomcoyle.
Recorded monuments
- WI038-011 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a gentle S-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 33m) defined from E-S-W by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2.4-3m; int. H 0.4-1m; ext. H 0.8-1.5m) which has drystone facing and has been incorporated into the adjoining field boundaries. At the N the site is defined by a low earthen bank (Wth 2.4-3m; H 0.6-0.8m). No indication of an external fosse. The entrance (Wth 2m) is at the NE. Traces of a hut or house foundation (diam. 4.5m) are visible in the NE quadrant and there is a low mound (dims. c. 6m x 3.5m) inside the bank at the NW. 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
- WI038-011001 Hut site
Description
Within a ringfort (WI038-011----) which is situated on a gentle S-facing slope. Traces of a hut or house foundation (diam. 4.5m) are visible in the NE quadrant. 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. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload/revision: 19 September 2012
Architectural heritage
- Mullinacuff Church, church/chapel, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey Church of Ireland church, built c.1840. The church is in Tudor style and is constructed in ashlar granite with a bellcote; there are diagonal reducing buttresses. The sheeted door is set within a pointed-arched opening with drip moulding. Windows are also pointed-arched with drip mouldings with "Y" tracery and have diamond panes. The pitched roof is finished with natural slate and cast-iron rainwater goods. The church is slightly set back behind a wrought-iron gate and a granite rubble wall.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knockatomcoyle.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Knockatomcoyle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Knockatomcoyle · Cnoc na dTom Coill
- Area
- 4,578,077 m² (457.81 ha, 1,131.27 acres)
- Civil parish
- Mullinacuff, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shillelagh
- Electoral division
- Cronelea, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cronelea electoral division: 181 people in 70 households; 87% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bellmount (Co. Carlow), Bellshill (Co. Carlow), Carrick, Killalongford (Co. Carlow), Laragh, Muskeagh, Oldtown (Co. Carlow), Seskin, Stranakelly
- Placenames
- Knockatomcoyle 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.