Knoxtershill

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knoxtershill, from 61 m² to 161,045 m² (16.1 ha, 39.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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 Knoxtershill 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.

• 22 May 2026Conditional

  (i) demolition of existing front (north) porch and existing side (south) and rear (east) mono-pitch lean-to structures, (ii) alterations to the existing detached dwelling to provide family sitting room and library space, (iii) construction of a single-storey extension to the side (south) incorporating kitchen/dining/living areas and to the rear (east) incorporating additional bedrooms, (iv) reinstatement of existing historic boundary wall and provision of a new vehicular entrance to the west boundary, (v) installation of a proprietary wastewater treatment system and associated percolation area, (vi) together with all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660454

• 20 May 2026N/a

  (i) demolition of existing front (north) porch and existing side (south) and rear (east) mono-pitch lean-to structures, (ii) alterations to the existing detached dwelling to provide family sitting room and library space, (iii) construction of a single-storey extension to the side (south) incorporating kitchen/dining/living areas and to the rear (east) incorporating additional bedrooms, (iv) reinstatement of existing historic boundary wall and provision of a new vehicular entrance to the west boundary, (v) Installation of a proprietary wastewater treatment system and associated percolation area, (vi) together with all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660440

• 12 May 2026N/a

  (i) demolition of existing front (north) porch and existing side (south) and rear (east) mono-pitch lean-to structures, (ii) alterations to the existing detached dwelling to provide family sitting room and library space, (iii) construction of a single-storey extension to the side (south) incorporating kitchen/dining/living areas and to the rear (east) incorporating additional bedrooms (iv) Reinstatement of existing historic boundary wall and provision of a new vehicular entrance to the west boundary, (v) installation of a proprietary wastewater treatment system and associated percolation area, (vi) together with all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660397

• 19 Jan 2026N/a

  construct a two-storey dwelling house, domestic garage, new site entrance, bored well, proprietary treatment system and associated percolation area, all ancillary site works and services

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660022

• 2 Dec 2025N/a

  construct a two-storey dwelling house, domestic garage, new site entrance, bored well, proprietary treatment system and associated percolation area, all ancillary site works and services

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560978

• 5 Mar 2025N/a

  wooden constructed dwelling house and garden sheds, planning permission also sought for 83.6 sq m extension and alterations to existing 48 sq m dwelling house, alterations to existing roadside boundary, new secondary sewerage treatment system and all ancillary site

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2560143

• 29 Oct 2024Refused

  construct a single storey dwelling house, domestic garage, new site entrance, bored well, proprietary treatment system and associated percolation area, all ancillary site works and services

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460658

• 9 Oct 2024N/a

  wooden constructed dwelling house and garden sheds, Planning permission also sought for 83.6 sq m extension and alterations to existing 48 sq m dwelling house, alterations to existing roadside boundary, new secondary sewerage treatment system and all ancillary site

  Retention, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2460616

• 8 Oct 2024N/a

  a two-storey dwelling house, domestic garage, new site entrance, bored well, proprietary treatment system and associated percolation area, all ancillary site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2460613

• 20 Dec 2022Conditional

  construction of a 2 storey dwelling with single storey return, domestic single garage, WWTP and percolation area, with new access to existing road and carry out all ancillary and associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221372

• 12 Aug 2022Conditional

  detached storey and half dwelling house, single storey domestic garage, effluent treatment system, percolation area, new water well, upgrade existing agricultural entrance to domestic recessed entrance and all associated site development works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 22885

• 1 Nov 2019Conditional

  single storey dwelling house, domestic garage, new site entrance, bored well, septic tank and associated percolation area, all ancillary site works and services

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 191188

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 Knoxtershill.

Recorded monuments

• WI020-026 Enclosure
  Description

  On an undulating gravel ridge that falls away steeply to the NW, commanding the low ground of the river valley to the NW. A large mound (diam. 21-23m; H c. 3m) with a terrace (Wth 5-8m) all round and an uneven hollow in the centre. Possibly a scarped natural mound. Slight traces of a possible fosse and outer bank at SE. Traces of ridge and furrow remain right across the monument. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 12 November 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knoxtershill, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Knoxtershill

Area

568,029 m² (56.8 ha, 140.36 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynure, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Upper

Electoral division

The Grange, the unit of the census

Census 2022

472 people lived in 167 households in the The Grange electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballylea, Ballynure, Ballynure Park, Colbinstown (Co. Kildare), Grangecon Rocks, Griffinstown Glen

Placenames

Knoxtershill 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.