# Knockadav, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilcummin, barony of Moycullen, Co. Galway; in Irish Cnoc an Daimh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 18,569,435 m² (1,856.94 ha, 4,588.61 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 21,754 m² (2.18 ha, 5.38 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilcummin, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/kilcummin.md - Barony: Moycullen - Electoral division: Turlough, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 555 people lived in 222 households in the Turlough electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 14% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/20933 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 62779 - Centre: latitude 53.414148, longitude -9.583772 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockadav, from 750 m² to 17,524,913 m² (1,752.49 ha, 4,330.5 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2074377: 17,524,913 m² (1,752.49 ha, 4,330.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2074377.md - Parcel 2074374: 256,790 m² (25.68 ha, 63.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2074374.md - Parcel 2026777: 202,475 m² (20.25 ha, 50.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2026777.md - Parcel 2074372: 178,687 m² (17.87 ha, 44.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2074372.md - Parcel 2026775: 140,224 m² (14.02 ha, 34.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2026775.md - Parcel 2074373: 80,437 m² (8.04 ha, 19.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2074373.md - Parcel 2026774: 32,102 m² (3.21 ha, 7.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2026774.md - Parcel 2026772: 32,057 m² (3.21 ha, 7.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2026772.md - Parcel 2074376: 21,908 m² (2.19 ha, 5.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2074376.md - Parcel 2026776: 21,754 m² (2.18 ha, 5.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2026776.md - Parcel 2026768: 16,694 m² (1.67 ha, 4.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2026768.md - Parcel 2074371: 9,954 m² (1 ha, 2.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2074371.md - Parcel 2113851: 8,635 m² (0.86 ha, 2.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2113851.md - Parcel 2026769: 5,550 m² (0.56 ha, 1.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2026769.md - Parcel 2026771: 4,756 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2026771.md - Parcel 2026770: 4,206 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2026770.md - Parcel 2026773: 3,363 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2026773.md - Parcel 2074375: 2,946 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2074375.md - Parcel 4456477: 750 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4456477.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Knockadav 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) No planning application touches the townland of Knockadav in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Connemara Bog Complex SAC, site code 002034, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002034 - Special Protection Area: Connemara Bog Complex SPA, site code 004181, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004181 - Special Protection Area: Connemara Islands SPA, site code 004159, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004159 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Connemara Bog Complex, site code 002034 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA052-001: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA052-001----. On rough hillside c. 420m NE of Loch na hAibhne Gairbhe. Known locally as Tobar na gCreigeán or An Tobar Beannaithe (GA052-001----), it consists of a natural irregular hollow (bullaun) in a rock outcrop with a small drystone-built stone shrine over it on which are wooden crosses and coins. Six small cairns (H c. 0.5m), probably penitential stations (GA052-001001-), are visible on boulders nearby: there used to be more until a priest destroyed them a generation or two ago (info. T. Robinson). Not visited. 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 - GA052-001001: Penitential station, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA052-001001-. On rough hillside c. 420m NE of Loch na hAibhne Gairbhe. Known locally as Tobar na gCreigeán or An Tobar Beannaithe (GA052-001----), it consists of a natural irregular hollow (bullaun) in a rock outcrop with a small drystone-built stone shrine over it on which are wooden crosses and coins. Six small cairns (H c. 0.5m), probably penitential stations (GA052-001001-), are visible on boulders nearby: there used to be more until a priest destroyed them a generation or two ago (info. T. Robinson). Not visited. 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: 04 August 2016 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockadav. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Knockadav, 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: 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 Knockadav. - 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/galway/knockadav.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/knockadav.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/knockadav.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Knockadav with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Derroogh North: https://everytownland.com/galway/derroogh-north.md - Glentrasna: https://everytownland.com/galway/glentrasna.md - Gortmore: https://everytownland.com/galway/gortmore-62290.md - Illeny: https://everytownland.com/galway/illeny.md - Knockaphreaghaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/knockaphreaghaun.md - Shannavara: https://everytownland.com/galway/shannavara.md - Turlough: https://everytownland.com/galway/turlough-64159.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/galway/knockadav - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/knockadav