Knocknashamroge
Knocknashamroge is a townland in the civil parish of Hacketstown, barony of Ballinacor South, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Cnoc na Seamróg.
- Area
- 112.9 ha
- 279 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 32,960 m² (3.3 ha, 8.14 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknashamroge, from 273 m² to 194,853 m² (19.49 ha, 48.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Knocknashamroge 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
16 Sept 2026N/a
the construction of a new dwelling, wastewater treatment unit and soil polishing filter, new well, upgrading existing entrance onto laneway which leads to public road and associate works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2660834
2 Mar 2023Conditional
a dwelling with services and domestic garage and all associated site and ancillary works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23203
1 Dec 2020Conditional
1) demolish an existing dwelling house and 2) construct a replacement dwelling house with services, domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 201224
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knocknashamroge.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knocknashamroge.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knocknashamroge.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Knocknashamroge, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knocknashamroge.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Knocknashamroge with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Knocknashamroge · Cnoc na Seamróg
- Area
- 1,128,571 m² (112.86 ha, 278.88 acres)
- Civil parish
- Hacketstown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballinacor South
- Electoral division
- Coolballintaggart, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 528 people lived in 179 households in the Coolballintaggart electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymaghroe, Carrignamuck, Knockanooker Upper, Knocknagilky Upper, Sheilstown
- Placenames
- Knocknashamroge 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.