Knockieran Lower

82 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockieran Lower, from 10 m² to 234,242 m² (23.42 ha, 57.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Knockieran Lower 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.

• 30 May 2025Conditional

  demolish the existing single storey extension to the rear of the existing cottage & construction of a new pitched roof ground floor extension (circa 62 Sq/M) to the rear & side along with a new pedestrian access gate at the front boundary wall and all associated works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560406

• 22 May 2025N/a

  permission to demolish the existing single storey extension to the rear of the existing cottage & construction of a new pitched roof ground floor extension (circa 62 Sq/M) to the rear & side along with a new pedestrian access gate at the front boundary wall and all associated works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560382

• 17 Feb 2025Conditional

  conversion of attic space to that granted under PRR:89/4874 and for 2 No. single storey rear extensions and for the upgrade of existing effluent disposal system to current EPA standards

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2560095

• 28 Jan 2025N/a

  conversion of attic space to that granted under PRR:89/4874 together with retention permission for 2 No. single storey rear extensions and permission for the upgrade of existing effluent disposal system to current EPA standards

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2560044

• 11 May 2021Conditional

  upgrade existing septic tank to a wastewater treatment plant with sand polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21543

• 29 Apr 2021N/a

  upgrade existing septic tank to a waste water treatment plant with sand polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21489

• 17 Sept 2020Conditional

  the sub-division and conversion of an existing single and two storey agricultural outbuilding to provides 5 no. holiday cottages (3 no. one bedroomed and 2 no. two bedroomed) to include modifications to existing elevations and provision of roof lights, relocate the existing entrance, replace the Waste Water Treatment System with an Integrated Constructed Wetland System to treat wastewater generated from the existing dwelling and the holiday cottages and all associated site works and landscaping

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 20914

• 14 Aug 2018Conditional

  extend the appropriate period of a permission - 12/6921 - relocate dwelling granted under planning ref 08/628 by a distance of 35 mts to the north east, also relocate the granted entrance by 10mts to the south west

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 18923

• 15 May 2018Conditional

  part single storey, part storey and a half dwelling with a single storey garage along with a wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 18514

• 19 Jun 2017N/a

  private dwelling with attic space including bedroom / bathroom and velux roof windows together with on site wastewater treatment system and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 17720

• 23 Mar 2017Unconditional

  greenway. Construct a new crushed stone track in order to create a walking & cycling greenway which will follow the edge of the Blessington Lakes together with the upgrading of the existing tracks commencing in the town of Blessington and following a route close to the shoreline through the townlands of Baltyboys Lower, Tulfarris, Rathballylong, Baltyboys Upper, Monamuck, Valleymount, Annacarney, Carrigacurra, Ballyknockan, Ballynastockan, Lackan, Sroughan, Carrig, Knockieran Upper, Knockieran Lower, Blessington and Burgage More and the villages of Valleymount, Ballyknockan and Lacken before returning to Blessington at Knockieran Bridge. Upgrading works will include widening of existing track and laying of geotextile with a surface layer of crushed stone surface. Construction works will involve shallow excavation, laying of geotextile with a surface layer of crushed stone surface, placement of apprx 100 culverts, 18 light bridges over larger streams, fencing and minor landscaping

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 17307

• 18 Jan 2017N/a

  new crushed stone track in order to create a walking and cycling Greenway which will follow the edge of the Blessington Lakes together with upgrading of existing tracks commencing in the town of Blessington and following a route close to the shoreline through the townlands of Baltyboys Lower, Tulfarris, Rathballylong, Baltyboys Upper, Monamuck, Valleymount, Annacarney, Carrigacurra, Ballyknockan, Ballynastockan, Lackan, Sroughan and the villages of Valleymount, Ballyknockan and Lacken before returning to Blessington at Knockieran Bridge. Upgarding works will include widening of existing track and laying of geotextile with a surface layer of crushed stone surface. Construction works will involve shallow excavation, laying of geotextile with a surface layer of crushed stone surface. placement of approx 100 culverts, 18 light bridges over larger streams, fencing and minor landscaping

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 1739

• 16 Jan 2017Refused

  subdivision and conversion of an existing single and two storey agricultural outbuilding to provide 5 no holiday home / self catering units (3 no one bedroomed and 2 no two bedroomed) to include modifications to existing elevations, the provision of rooflights, a wastewater treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 1726

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Poulaphouca Reservoir SPA 004063
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Poulaphouca Reservoir 000731

Recorded monuments

• WI005-051 Standing stone
  Description

  Situated on the summit of a low hill with extensive views over the now flooded Liffey Valley to the N, W and S. Rectangular block of shale (H 1.48m; Wth 0.7m x 0.5m) with a rectangular cross-section. 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

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

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 Knockieran Lower, about 1 in 5 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2946 (ZIP).

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

Name

Knockieran Lower · Cnoc an Chaorthainn Íochtarach

Area

1,249,464 m² (124.95 ha, 308.75 acres)

Civil parish

Blessington, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Lower

Electoral division

Blessington, the unit of the census

Census 2022

4,588 people lived in 1,608 households in the Blessington electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Blessington, Burgage More, Butterhill, Carrig, Crosscoolharbour, Haylands, Knockieran Upper

Placenames

Knockieran Lower 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.