Knockanarra

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockanarra, from 523 m² to 182,231 m² (18.22 ha, 45.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 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 Knockanarra 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Knockanarra in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Natural Heritage Area: Lough Namucka Bog NHA 000220

Recorded monuments

• GA001-024 Castle - tower house
  Description

  On W bank of the Island River in a low-lying but strategic position. In existence in 1574 when 'Cloghane Kellebig' castle was in the possession of 'Mac Davy' (Nolan 1901b, 117). All that survives is N wall (L 13.4m, H < 2.8m) with a pronounced base-batter, and short sections of E and W walls (L c. 2m). Apart from traces of an embrasure in N wall, no architectural features survive. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 117) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA001-026 Quarry
  Description

  On top of a glacial ridge overlooking the Island River to the SW. A small circular hachured area depicted on the 1930 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a sand and gravel pit. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 4 July 2014

• GA001-027 Quarry
  Description

  A hachured feature shown on the 1930 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a disused sand pit defined by a steep-sided gully. Probably of 19th/20th century date. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 21 August 2014

• GA001-028 Quarry
  Description

  In undulating pastureland overlooking the Island River to the S. A hachured area depicted on the 1930 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a large fine sand quarry that was cut into an esker ridge. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 4 July 2014

• GA001-029 Quarry
  Description

  At the NE end of an esker ridge. A hachured area depicted on the 1930 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a disused sand pit. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 4 July 2014

• GA001-030 Water mill - vertical-wheeled
  Description

  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.

• GA001-032 Bridge
  Description

  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.

Architectural heritage

• Clough Mill, mill (water), 1800–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding double-pile three-bay two-storey watermill, built c.1825, having lower two-storey block with attic slightly recessed at right angles to north end. Now derelict and partly ruinous. Pitched slate roof with concrete copings. Gable tops raised with smaller blocks of stone. Coursed rubble limestone walls. Square-headed window openings with limestone lintels and sills and remains of one-over-one-pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening to front of main block having double-leaf timber sheet door with limestone lintel. Some machinery retained to interior. Wheel pit at south end, with remains of timber water wheel. Mill race has coursed limestone walls, with mass concrete to hold sluices.

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 Knockanarra, about 1 in 5 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Knockanarra with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Knockanarra · Cnoc an Ara

Area

1,197,379 m² (119.74 ha, 295.88 acres)

Civil parish

Templetogher, and its townlands

Barony

Ballymoe

Electoral division

Island, the unit of the census

Census 2022

252 people lived in 97 households in the Island electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 26% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castlefield, Derrywode, Kilbeg, Kiltybannan, Moneen, Moneenally

Placenames

Knockanarra 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.