# Knocknamohill, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Castlemacadam, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Cnocán na mBuachaill. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,224,648 m² (122.46 ha, 302.62 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 33,133 m² (3.31 ha, 8.19 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Castlemacadam, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/castlemacadam.md - Barony: Arklow - Electoral division: Ovoca, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Ovoca electoral division: 728 people in 263 households; 74% of households own their home; 10% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55242 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250959 - Centre: latitude 52.846898, longitude -6.25674 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknamohill, from 2,333 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres) to 395,315 m² (39.53 ha, 97.68 acres); 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1278849: 395,315 m² (39.53 ha, 97.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278849.md - Parcel 1271442: 322,859 m² (32.29 ha, 79.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1271442.md - Parcel 1289583: 135,791 m² (13.58 ha, 33.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1289583.md - Parcel 1265444: 90,819 m² (9.08 ha, 22.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1265444.md - Parcel 1263451: 54,361 m² (5.44 ha, 13.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1263451.md - Parcel 1262515: 37,416 m² (3.74 ha, 9.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1262515.md - Parcel 1296431: 28,850 m² (2.88 ha, 7.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1296431.md - Parcel 3242177: 4,327 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3242177.md - Parcel 2759522: 3,076 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2759522.md - Parcel 1300108: 3,050 m² (0.31 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1300108.md - Parcel 1276029: 2,630 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1276029.md - Parcel 1297769: 2,333 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1297769.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Knocknamohill 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) 1 application, newest first. - 25 Aug 2026, Wicklow County Council 2660755: N/a. Permission. RED III application Level 1 - consist of a ten year planning permission to develop an electricity service, entailing the laying of approximately 23.9 kilometers of 38kV cable from the consented Ballymanus Wind Farm (Reg. Ref. 17/814) to connect the wind farm to the national grid at the existing Arklow 220kV ESB Station, County Wicklow, the proposed grid connection will be installed within existing private tracks and public roadway and include, provision of joint bays, draw pits, communication chambers, three phase electrical cables, optical fibre cables and cable sheath sectionalising chambers, water and rail crossings by (i) bridge crossings, (ii) horizontal directional drilling and iii) guided auger bore, limited ancillary forestry felling to facilitate construction and operation of the proposed development, reinstatement of land, road and track surface above the proposed cabling trench, all associated ancillary works. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) have been prepared in respect of the proposed development and will be submitted with the application. This development is covered by the provisions of the Renewable Energy Directive III (Directive (EU)2023/2413) and it is important to note that the planning application may be subject to section 34D of the Planning and Development Act, as amended, When a notice issues in accordence with section 34D(b), the provisions of article 26A of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 to 2025 shall apply. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660755/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Avoca River Valley, site code 001748 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knocknamohill. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knocknamohill. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: Susceptibility high, 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 Knocknamohill. - 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/knocknamohill.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/knocknamohill.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/knocknamohill.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Knocknamohill 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) - Ballinamona: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballinamona.md - Ballinapark: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballinapark-250092.md - Ballintemple: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballintemple.md - Ballycoog Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballycoog-lower.md - Ballymoneen: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballymoneen-250263.md - Parknashaw: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parknashaw.md - Templelusk: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/templelusk.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/knocknamohill - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/knocknamohill