Knocknadroose

60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknadroose, from 52 m² to 8,733,120 m² (873.31 ha, 2,158 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Knocknadroose 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.

• 10 Jul 2025Conditional

  Re-sagging (“re-tensioning”) of the existing conductor along an approximate distance of 16km of the Maynooth - Turlough Hill 220 kV overhead line (OHL) circuit within County Wicklow; and re-sagging of approximately 1.5km of the existing conductor along the Dunstown - Turlough Hill 220 kV OHL circuit within County Wicklow; A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared to accompany this planning application

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560525

• 26 Jun 2025N/a

  Re-sagging (“re-tensioning”) of the existing conductor along an approximate distance of 16km of the Maynooth - Turlough Hill 220 kV overhead line (OHL) circuit within County Wicklow; and re-sagging of approximately 1.5km of the existing conductor along the Dunstown - Turlough Hill 220 kV OHL circuit within County Wicklow; A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared to accompany this planning application

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560469

• 13 Nov 2024N/a

  permission for a change of house type of previously granted planning permission preference 225. for the demolition of existing houses and the construction of a 4 bedroom house and the reuse of existing shed along with a new septic tank and percolation to replace existing septic tank on site with all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460702

• 5 Jan 2022Conditional

  demolition of existing dwelling and construction of 4 bedroom bungalow, along with new septic tank and percolation to replace existing septic tank on site with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 225

• 24 Nov 2021N/a

  4 bedroom bungalow, installation of new on-site septic tank

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 211401

• 24 Mar 2020Conditional

  dwelling, effluent treatment system and entrance

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 20287

• 12 Mar 2019Conditional

  single storey extension to side of existing cottage along with new packaged wastewater treatment system and subsurface soil polishing filter

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 19260

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Wicklow Mountains SAC 002122
• Special Protection Area: Wicklow Mountains SPA 004040

Recorded monuments

• WI016-014 Burial ground
  Description

  Listed as a 'cemetery' in the SMR (1986) based on documentary evidence which mentions a disused graveyard on the lower part of this hill 'a little above the 1000 feet contour' (Price 1953, 223; Corlett and Weaver 2002, 507-08). The Ordnance Survey Letters of 1838 mention this burial ground where it is referred to as 'Carricknagross grave yard' (O'Flanagan 1927, 105). The OS Letters could not locate the graveyard where it was believed to be located in the parish of Granabeg. There is a burial ground (WI016-006----) in Granabeg Upper but this appears to be a different graveyard to 'Carricknagross graveyard'. Recorded in 1949 by Price (Corlett and Weaver 2002, 507) as 'Cornagrus Graveyard' who described the monument as following; 'A bank of large stones or boulders and earth surrounds a space about 32yds in diameter. The bank is about 3ft [0.9m] high. Inside all that is to be seen is a number of boulders and stones, many of them covered by moss, but in one place there is cut-stone cross (WI016-014001-). It is in two pieces; I don't know if they were originally joined and have been broken, or not, but by putting the cross-head on the pillar it makes quite a good cross. The pillar is standing in the earth; it can be shaken, so is not deep, but I did not dig to the bottom of it. There is no sign of carving on it. It is in the SW part of the enclosure. It is at the end of some stones which have roughly the shape of a grave, but this might be accidental. Burke said that people say a priest was buried there' (ibid., 507-08). The dry-stone wall forms a cashel-like enclosure which along with the stone cross located inside may suggest a possible ecclesiastical enclosure. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Revised by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Barry Dalby. Date of revised upload: 20 March 2017

• WI016-014001 Cross
  Description

  The Ordnance Survey Letters of 1838 mention a burial ground where it is referred to as 'Carricknagross grave yard' (O'Flanagan 1927, 105). Stone cross located in SW quadrant of this burial ground (WI016-014----). 'Cornagrus graveyard' recorded in 1943 by Liam Price who described the monument as following; 'A bank of large stones or boulders and earth surrounds a space about 32yds in diameter. Inside all that is to be seen is a number of boulders and stones, many of them covered by moss, but in one place there is a cut-stone cross (approx. dims. H 12 ins. [0.3m]; Wth 6 ins. [0.15m]). It is in two pieces; I don't know if they were originally joined and have been broken, or not, but by putting the cross-head on the pillar it makes quite a good cross. The pillar is standing in the earth; it can be shaken, so is not deep, but I did not dig to the bottom of it. There is no sign of carving on it. It is in the SW part of the enclosure. It is at the end of some stones which have roughly the shape of a grave, but this might be accidental. Burke said that people say a priest was buried there' (Corlett and Weaver 2002, 507-08). The dry-stone wall forms a cashel-like enclosure (WI016-014----) which along with the stone cross located inside may suggest a possible ecclesiastical enclosure. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Barry Dalby. Date of upload: 20 March 2017

• WI016-015 Booley hut
  Description

  Aalen (1963, 189) describes booley huts in the townland of Knocknadroose as particularly good examples comprising loose granite boulders in a variety of shapes and sizes (usually rectangular but sometimes round and oval). They appear to have been located in the area of forestry plantation to the N of 'Carricknagross graveyard' (WI016-014001-). A booley site recorded by Con Costelloe in this location (pers. comm. Barry Dalby) may be the same site as that recorded by Aalen. Several hut sites also visible at this location on Digital Globe aerial photographs taken July 2013. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Revised by: Caimin O'Brien based on information provided by Barry Dalby Date of revised upload: 22 March 2017

• WI016-015001 Booley hut
  Description

  Aalen (1963, 189) describes booley huts in the townland of Knocknadroose as particularly good examples comprising loose granite boulders in a variety of shapes and sizes (usually rectangular but sometimes round and oval). They appear to have been located in the area of forestry plantation to the N of 'Carricknagross graveyard' (WI016-014001-). A booley site recorded by Con Costelloe in this location (pers. comm. Barry Dalby) may be the same site as that recorded by Aalen. Several hut sites also visible at this location on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken July 2013. One of these hut sites is visible as a sub-rectangular shaped structure located 170m NW of Carricknagross graveyard (WI016-014----). This appears to be the Booley hut described in 1949 by Liam Price (Corlett and Weaver 2002, 507) as following: 'the remains of a building. It was about 14yds long and about 7yds wide, narrowing at one end - roughly rectangular. Drystone walls, the original part about 2 or 3ft high, with mores stones built up on top to 5 or 6ft. There had been a cross-wall, but it was gone: it made a room at the wider end, 8 or 10ft broad. There was a doorway at the SE corner. E and SE of the house was a small double enclosure or haggard. This was called the 'Boolia House'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on information provided by Barry Dalby Date of upload: 22 March 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knocknadroose, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knocknadroose.

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

Name

Knocknadroose

Area

12,539,463 m² (1,253.95 ha, 3,098.57 acres)

Civil parish

Hollywood, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Lower

Electoral division

Lugglass, the unit of the census

Census 2022

188 people lived in 57 households in the Lugglass electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinagoneen, Bawnoge, Camenabologue, Conavalla, Granabeg Lower, Granamore, Knockalt Lower, Knockalt Upper, Lugduff, Oakwood, Pollaghadoo, Table Mountain

Placenames

Knocknadroose 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.