Knockieran Upper

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockieran Upper, from 384 m² to 245,831 m² (24.58 ha, 60.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Upper 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.

• 2 Oct 2017Conditional

  extend dry litter sheep wintering shed, the existing floor area is 215 sqm and the proposed extension is 185 sqm, above works on farm

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 171186

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 Knockieran Upper.

Recorded monuments

• WI005-124 Cursus
  Description

  On the steep westernmost slope of Lugnagun ridge. A cairn (WI005-058---) is located on the summit of the ridge, at the eastern end of the monument. Monument identified in 2013 on Lidar imaging (Steve Davis, UCD School of Archaeology). This possible cursus consists of two parallel earthen banks (Wth c. 4.5m; H c. 0.5m) which are 36-39m apart, aligned roughly E-W, and visible over a distance of over 600m (Corlett 2014, 23). At the upper, eastern end the cursus has an open terminal, with the southern bank stopping some distance short of the cairn, though this bank appears to have been robbed out (ibid.). The downslope portion of both banks has been largely levelled but is visible on aerial photographs and Lidar imaging (ibid.). A similar possible cursus monument has been identified on Keadeen Mountain, Co. Wicklow (WI027-089----), with examples in other counties including one on Brewel Hill (KD032-058----) in Co. Kildare and two in Co. Carlow, at Knockendrane (CW020-026----) and Coolasnaghta (CW020-027----). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 28 July 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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 Upper, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

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

Name

Knockieran Upper · Cnoc an Chaorthainn Uachtarach

Area

708,683 m² (70.87 ha, 175.12 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

Blackrock, Butterhill, Carrig, Knockieran Lower, Rathnabo

Placenames

Knockieran Upper 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.