# Knockadrum, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballynakill (Loughrea Ra), barony of Leitrim, Co. Galway; in Irish Cnoc Fhardroma. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 566,353 m² (56.64 ha, 139.95 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 23,558 m² (2.36 ha, 5.82 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballynakill (Loughrea Ra), https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/ballynakill-loughrea-ra.md - Barony: Leitrim - Electoral division: Marblehill, the unit of the census - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/20189 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 62782 - Centre: latitude 53.091213, longitude -8.44745 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockadrum, from 201 m² to 156,737 m² (15.67 ha, 38.73 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2075230: 156,737 m² (15.67 ha, 38.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2075230.md - Parcel 2027545: 135,184 m² (13.52 ha, 33.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2027545.md - Parcel 2075228: 76,807 m² (7.68 ha, 18.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2075228.md - Parcel 2075229: 56,054 m² (5.61 ha, 13.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2075229.md - Parcel 4463223: 42,496 m² (4.25 ha, 10.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4463223.md - Parcel 2027548: 28,334 m² (2.83 ha, 7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2027548.md - Parcel 2027549: 23,887 m² (2.39 ha, 5.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2027549.md - Parcel 4634351: 23,558 m² (2.36 ha, 5.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4634351.md - Parcel 5075379: 5,686 m² (0.57 ha, 1.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5075379.md - Parcel 5625555: 4,499 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5625555.md - Parcel 2075226: 4,295 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2075226.md - Parcel 2075227: 1,134 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2075227.md - Parcel 2027547: 1,091 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2027547.md - Parcel 2027546: 910 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2027546.md - Parcel 2075225: 201 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2075225.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Knockadrum 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 Knockadrum in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knockadrum. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA125-068: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA125-068----. The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie. - GA125-068001: Bullaun stone (present location), https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA125-068001-. Possibly associated with the medieval church (GA125-023001-). On initial inspection in September 1985, this large roughly worked subrectangular bullaun stone (L 0.6m; Wth 0.5m; H 0.45m) was located across the road from church (see GA125-022003- for original location). It was subsequently moved to its present location at the S side of entrance to St Joseph's Church. On re-inspection in July 2011, its off-centre basin (diam. 0.66m) was planted with flowers. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 22 January 2020 The following images has been uploaded: GA125-068001-_01.jpg view from NW GA125-068001-_03.jpg view prior to planting - GA125-069: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA125-069----. The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie. 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) - Saint Joseph's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1840–1860, Regional interest, registry number 30412508, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=GA®no=30412508. Detached cruciform-plan gable-fronted Roman Catholic church, built c.1850, with gabled porches to front (north-west) elevation of both transepts, gabled windbreak entrance to gable-front, three-bay nave, single-bay transepts, shallow single-bay chancel, with single-bay sacristy to gable of latter. Pitched slate roofs with carved limestone crosses to gables. Pebbledash rendered walls with rendered plinth course, and with ashlar limestone corner buttresses to front elevation having plinths, cornices and stepped work above. Ashlar limestone walls to gables of transept porches. Lancet windows, triple-light to front and transept gables, with ashlar limestone surrounds, sloping sills and stained glass to nave. Pointed arch window openings to transept porches, having chamfered limestone surrounds and leaded stained glass windows with timber Y-tracery. Oculus with dressed limestone surround and stained glass to chancel gable. Pointed arch main doorway with ashlar limestone dressing, limestone step and threshold, and timber battened double-leaf door. Interior having timber gallery, stained glass to pointed arcade set in timber screen below. Render piers to crossing. Altar aedicule comprising fluted columns with pilaster responds supporting dentillated cornices to open-bed curvilinear pediment, columns supported on panelled plinths in turn standing on panelled walling. Altar has somewhat similar detailing comprising engaged columns, with panels between. Free-standing recent pyramidal bell tower, and calvary to grounds. Decorative cast-iron double-leaf gate to entrance, with carved limestone piers with moulded plinths and cornices, panelled faces and pyramidal caps, flanked by square-headed pedestrian entrances with similar cast-iron gates and moulded cornices, and flanking dressed limestone boundary walls. Bullaun stone to west of entrance. ## 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 Knockadrum, 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 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 Knockadrum. - 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/knockadrum.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/knockadrum.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/knockadrum.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Knockadrum 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) - Ballycorban: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballycorban.md - Ballynakill: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballynakill-60431.md - Cartron South: https://everytownland.com/galway/cartron-south.md - Cregg: https://everytownland.com/galway/cregg-61565.md - Cuilleendaeagh: https://everytownland.com/galway/cuilleendaeagh.md - Lecarrow North: https://everytownland.com/galway/lecarrow-north.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/knockadrum - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/knockadrum