# Knockeen, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Liscolman, barony of Shillelagh, Co. Wicklow; in Irish An Cnoicín. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,827,535 m² (282.75 ha, 698.7 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 30,467 m² (3.05 ha, 7.53 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Liscolman, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/liscolman.md - Barony: Shillelagh - Electoral division: Rath, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 287 people lived in 106 households in the Rath electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 6% 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/55908 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250946 - Centre: latitude 52.809835, longitude -6.662398 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockeen, from 160 m² to 338,727 m² (33.87 ha, 83.7 acres); 30 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2672468: 338,727 m² (33.87 ha, 83.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2672468.md - Parcel 5685400: 174,618 m² (17.46 ha, 43.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5685400.md - Parcel 1266539: 145,879 m² (14.59 ha, 36.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1266539.md - Parcel 1271423: 134,972 m² (13.5 ha, 33.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1271423.md - Parcel 1282757: 133,709 m² (13.37 ha, 33.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1282757.md - Parcel 1273819: 133,053 m² (13.31 ha, 32.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1273819.md - Parcel 1286424: 127,198 m² (12.72 ha, 31.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1286424.md - Parcel 1282665: 118,338 m² (11.83 ha, 29.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1282665.md - Parcel 1282620: 115,326 m² (11.53 ha, 28.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1282620.md - Parcel 1278751: 114,092 m² (11.41 ha, 28.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278751.md - Parcel 1273835: 108,872 m² (10.89 ha, 26.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1273835.md - Parcel 1292492: 100,496 m² (10.05 ha, 24.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1292492.md - Parcel 1273836: 94,240 m² (9.42 ha, 23.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1273836.md - Parcel 2672467: 85,190 m² (8.52 ha, 21.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2672467.md - Parcel 1273822: 82,773 m² (8.28 ha, 20.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1273822.md - Parcel 1273773: 79,854 m² (7.99 ha, 19.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1273773.md - Parcel 1282798: 69,317 m² (6.93 ha, 17.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1282798.md - Parcel 1282688: 68,839 m² (6.88 ha, 17.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1282688.md - Parcel 1282664: 63,394 m² (6.34 ha, 15.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1282664.md - Parcel 1282667: 62,025 m² (6.2 ha, 15.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1282667.md - Parcel 5751892: 60,381 m² (6.04 ha, 14.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5751892.md - Parcel 5751843: 58,824 m² (5.88 ha, 14.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5751843.md - Parcel 1282666: 54,216 m² (5.42 ha, 13.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1282666.md - Parcel 5751932: 36,006 m² (3.6 ha, 8.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5751932.md - Parcel 1273820: 31,013 m² (3.1 ha, 7.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1273820.md - Parcel 1273821: 29,921 m² (2.99 ha, 7.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1273821.md - Parcel 1269912: 27,322 m² (2.73 ha, 6.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1269912.md - Parcel 1282689: 24,112 m² (2.41 ha, 5.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1282689.md - Parcel 1269292: 20,279 m² (2.03 ha, 5.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1269292.md - Parcel 1277642: 19,036 m² (1.9 ha, 4.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1277642.md - Parcel 1289483: 17,952 m² (1.8 ha, 4.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1289483.md - Parcel 5751871: 16,342 m² (1.63 ha, 4.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5751871.md - Parcel 5751888: 15,602 m² (1.56 ha, 3.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5751888.md - Parcel 5751890: 7,918 m² (0.79 ha, 1.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5751890.md - Parcel 5751872: 5,090 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5751872.md - Parcel 1297847: 4,199 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1297847.md - Parcel 1294765: 3,808 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1294765.md - Parcel 5751948: 3,377 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5751948.md - Parcel 2754703: 2,711 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2754703.md - Parcel 1300188: 2,395 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1300188.md - Parcel 1262114: 1,895 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1262114.md - Parcel 1282758: 1,545 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1282758.md - Parcel 1269437: 1,476 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1269437.md - Parcel 5751894: 1,275 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5751894.md - Parcel 5751946: 1,275 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5751946.md - Parcel 5751880: 368 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5751880.md - Parcel 5751860: 181 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5751860.md - Parcel 5751985: 179 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5751985.md - Parcel 5752021: 165 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5752021.md - Parcel 5751883: 160 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5751883.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Knockeen 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) 2 applications, newest first. - 4 Jun 2026, Wicklow County Council 2660495: N/a. Permission. construction of an extension to an existing store and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660495/0 - 15 Jun 2018, Wicklow County Council 18665: Conditional. Permission. storage shed and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/18665/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC, site code 000781, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000781 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WI037-006: Barrow - ring-barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI037-006----. Situated on the level summit of a low hill. Circular site (diam. 48m) defined by wide, shallow scarped fosse (Wth c. 20m; D 1m) with a domed central rise. 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 - WI037-017: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI037-017----. Situated on a gentle N-facing slope c. 50m N of the outer ramparts of Rathgall hillfort (WI037-016----). Circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) visible as a cropmark on aerial photograph (CUCAP, AHK 73). 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 - WI037-018: Hillfort, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI037-018----. Situated on the N shoulder of a hill c. 300m N of Rathgall hillfort (WI037-016----). Circular enclosure (max. diam. c. 200m). The bank, where it survives, is of earth and stone and has been cleared of growth (max. H c. 1.5m; max. Wth c. 5m). It has been destroyed from NNW to SE, although a scarp is visible at the N. Traces of a second, outer rampart (original diam. c. 300m) are visible on aerial photographs (GSIAP, S 121-2), and are preserved in field boundaries visible on aerial photograph (CUCAP, AHK074; AHK078-079). There is a cairn (WI037-018001-) near the centre of the site. Also visible on the aerial photographs are two fences radiating out from the cairn. These have been removed but were described by Orpen (1911, 142) as being possibly ancient due to their great size. Geophysical survey of the monument undertaken in 2014 (O'Driscoll 2014). The hillfort was recently described in the Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland as following; 'Possible multiple enclosure positioned surrounding the low-domed summit of hilltop. Circular fort follows contours of hill and takes advantage of steep break of slope to N. It has a total site footprint of 6.2ha and is positioned 300m to the N of the large multiple enclosure of Rathgall (Atlas No.0723). Aerial photography has suggested that this is a bivallate multiple enclosure with widely spaced enclosing elements separated by approximately 50m. This has been confirmed by geophysics. There are three breaks through the inner enclosing elements that are probably modern. Large cairn positioned at the centre and highest point of the hillfort. Geophysical survey has identified up to twenty possible hut structures within the interior of the inner enclosing elements and possible pits and relict field systems have also been identified (O'Driscoll 2014). Ramparts survive well at S and W and are levelled at the N and E. Outer enclosing elements visible in Cambridge University aerial photographs as a vegetation mark. Interior under pasture. Earlier map depiction in first edition Ordnance Survey maps. More detailed depiction in second edition mapping. Geophysical survey by O'Driscoll in 2014. Inner enclosing elements extant. Possible outer enclosing elements visible as a vegetation mark in aerial photography. in Cambridge University aerial photographs and in geophysics. Circular area defined by a bank of earth and stone that has been cleared of growth (Grogan and Kilfeather 1997, 42-43). It has a maximum height of 1.5m and is approximately 5m wide. There is no obvious ditch feature on the surface. Geophysical survey has confirmed the presence of an in-filled external ditch. The enclosing elements have been destroyed at the N and E. These have been traced by geophysics, confirming that these have been destroyed in these areas (O'Driscoll 2014). Possible outer enclosing element identified as a concentric cropmark approximately 50m outside the inner example and confirmed by geophysics. Cropmarks indicate that there is a second enclosing element. This is visible at the S, SW and W in Cambridge University aerial photographs. A modern road and farm development have been built over the remaining sections and are therefore not visible. It is likely that the second enclosing elements formed a complete circuit.' (http://hillforts.arch.ox.ac.uk/records/IR0722.html) 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. Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 7 February 2020 - WI037-018001: Cairn - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI037-018001-. Situated near the centre of Knockeen hillfort (WI037-018----). Subcircular cairn (dims. 18.7m N-S; 10m E-W; H 1.8-2.5m), covered with earth. Field stones have been added to the E and W sides. 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 - WI037-019: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI037-019----. Situated on a gentle NE-facing slope c. 150m E of Rathgall hillfort. Circular enclosure (diam. 18m) defined by a stone bank (Wth 1.5m; H 0.5m) with an inner and outer revetment of small boulders. Possibly a hut site. The site is partly masked by dumped material. (Orpen 1930, 142-3) 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 - WI037-021: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI037-021----. Situated on a gentle NE-facing slope. Circular enclosure (diam. c. 70m) defined by four ramparts. The three outer ramparts are closely spaced. Visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs (CUCAP, AHK080, AYL036-037). 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockeen. ## 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 Knockeen, about 1 in 5 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: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2772, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2772.zip (ZIP). - 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/knockeen.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/knockeen.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/knockeen.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Knockeen 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) - Ballyconnell: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyconnell.md - Butlersgrange (Co. Carlow): https://everytownland.com/carlow/butlersgrange.md - Killinure: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/killinure.md - Knockloe: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/knockloe.md - Liscolman: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/liscolman.md - Rath East: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/rath-east.md - Tankardstown (Co. Carlow): https://everytownland.com/carlow/tankardstown.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/knockeen - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/knockeen