Knock

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knock, from 39 m² to 766,889 m² (76.69 ha, 189.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Knock 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.

• 15 May 2023Conditional

  for the development consisting of refurbishment and upgrading works [including (where necessary) replacement of existing poles along the existing overhead electricity line, minor ground works e.g. replacement or installation of stays, and maintenance or improvement works]; and all associated ancillary works including the provision of temporary accessways. Replacement poles will be constructed at, or immediately adjacent to, the existing structures that they will replace. Replacement poles will have a maximum height of 12m above ground; and be similar in appearance to existing poles. Planning permission is sought for a 10 year period. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360511

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: Connemara Bog Complex SAC 002034
• Natural Heritage Area: Moycullen Bogs NHA 002364
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Connemara Bog Complex 002034

Recorded monuments

• GA081-015 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  On a ridge summit surrounded by bogland. A subcircular platform (NNE-SSW 14.5m, WNW-ESE 11.5m), in fair condition, defined by a scarp. The interior is slightly dished and a gap at E could be original. Possibly a barrow. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Knock with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Knock · An Cnoc

Area

3,877,843 m² (387.78 ha, 958.24 acres)

Civil parish

Moycullen, and its townlands

Barony

Moycullen

Electoral division

Spiddle, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Spiddle electoral division: 1,842 people in 622 households; 74% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Derryloughaun East, Killough, Knockalough, Knockarasser, Laughil, Lippa, Shannagurraun, Truskaunnagappul

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Knock 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.