Knockanima

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockanima, from 287 m² to 120,245 m² (12.02 ha, 29.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Residential Existing (Existing residential)
  Loughrea Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Galway · 23 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Loughrea Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Galway · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space/Recreation & Amenity (Open space, park)
  Loughrea Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Galway · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1Residential (Phase 1) (New/proposed residential)
  Loughrea Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Galway · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S3Community Facilities (Community facilities)
  Loughrea Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Galway · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N1.5Transport Infrastructure (Mixed/general transport uses)
  Loughrea Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Galway · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N6Public Utility (Other networks and basic infrastructure/utilities uses)
  Loughrea Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Galway · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1Residential Infill (New/proposed residential)
  Loughrea Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Galway · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 30 Jun 2026N/a

  for a residential development and associated site services. The development will consist of the following: construction of 35 no. dwelling houses comprising of the following mix; a. 20 no. two-storey, four bed semi-detached houses, b. 1 no. two-storey, four bed detached house, c. 8 no. two-storey, three bed semi-detached houses, d. 6 no. single storey, two bed detached houses; the removal of an existing single storey shed (in ruins); provision of carparking including ducting to all spaces for future EV charging points; provision of a public open space area (including a play area), private open space areas, bicycle parking, footpaths, public lighting, ESB Sub station, landscaping, groundworks and revised boundary treatments; provision of new vehicular and pedestrian entrance onto Lake Road (R351); provision for raised traffic calming measures along the Lake Road (R351); provision of surface water drainage arrangements to include on site attenuation and infiltration, and provision of road gullies at proposed traffic calming measures along the Lake Road (R351); connection to existing mains water infrastructure; proposed connection to sewer network via a proposed sewer extension along the (R351), together with all associated site works and services. An existing dwellinghouse is located at the eastern end of the site (Eircode H62X257), and is to remain in situ. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the planning authority with this application

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661106

• 17 Apr 2026N/a

  for; 1. the construction of 35 no. dwelling houses comprising of the following mix; a. 20 no. two-storey, four bed semi-detached houses, b. 1 no. two-storey, four bed detached house, c. 8 no. two-storey, three bed semi-detached houses, d. 6 no. single storey, two bed detached houses. 2. The removal of an existing single storey shed (in ruins). 3. Provision of carparking including ducting to all spaces for future EV charging points. 4. Provision of a public open space area (including a play area), private open space areas, bicycle parking, footpaths, public lighting, ESB Sub station, landscaping, groundworks and revised boundary treatments. 5. Provision of new vehicular and pedestrian entrance onto Lake Road (R351). 6. Provision for raised traffic calming measures along the Lake Road (R351). 7. Provision of surface water drainage arrangements to include on site attenuation and infiltration. 8. Connection to existing mains water infrastructure. 9. Proposed connection to sewer network via a proposed sewer extension along the (R351), together with all associated site works and services. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the planning authority with this application

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660593

• 12 Jan 2024Refused

  for change of house design, the redesigned dwelling includes a reduction in floor area, elevational changes, reduced ridge height and all associated site services and site development works as previously approved under PL Ref: 211476 and amended by PL Ref: 2260244. Gross floor space of proposed works: 549.1 sqm (house) & 25.47 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460022

• 28 Jun 2023Conditional

  (1) of change of use of car port to sun room with minor changes to elevations of dwelling house (previously approved under planning reg. ref. no. 3580) & (2) to retain home office & garden shed

  Retention, 2 homes · Galway County Council, 2360710

• 16 Mar 2022Conditional

  for modifications to a previously approved dwelling house (Pl. Ref. 21/1476) to include a reduction in floor area, elevational changes and associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260244

• 13 Aug 2021Conditional

  for the demolition of an existing substandard dwelling house, the construction of a replacement two storey dwelling house and all associated site works including revised boundaries. Gross floor space of proposed works 790 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211476

• 27 Jul 2021Conditional

  to carry out alterations and extension to an existing dwelling house and all associated site works and services. Gross floor space of proposed works house 180.9 sqm and garage 63.1 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211369

• 27 May 2021Unconditional

  for the construction of a serviced dwellinghouse and wastewater treatment system (gross floor space 186.30sqm)

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 21908

• 25 Mar 2021Conditional

  alterations, extension and elevational changes to an existing dwelling house and all associated site works including revised boundaries. Gross floor space of proposed works 401sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21461

• 11 Mar 2020Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house (which differs from the previously granted permission under planning ref. no. 14396), site access and all associated site services all on revised site boundaries. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 201.7 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20303

• 20 Sept 2019N/a

  for the demolition of existing sub-standard dwelling house and the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit, percolation area, site access, landscaping and all associated site services. A Natura Impact Statement has been prepared as part of this planning application. Gross floor space of proposed works: Dwelling House - 685.9 sqm, Garage - 135.8 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191465

• 21 Jan 2019Conditional

  for the blocking up of an existing agricultural entrance and the construction of a replacement agricultural entrance, internal roadway and concrete bund for the temporary storage and disposal of animal waste.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 1966

• 21 Aug 2017Unconditional

  for (a) the demolition of the existing bungalow dwelling and associated garage and (b)the construction of a pair of semi-detached independent living units to the southwest of protected structure 309 on behalf of the Health Service Executive (West) comprising of 1 no. one bedroom unit, and 1 no. two bedroom unit, together with storage shed and associated site works (gross floor space proposed 229sqm, demolition 148sqm) previous planning reference number 12/652

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 171257

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: Lough Rea SAC 000304
• Special Protection Area: Lough Rea SPA 004134
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Rea 000304

Recorded monuments

• GA105-140 Workhouse
  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.

• GA105-141 Graveyard
  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

• Saint Brendan's Hospital, workhouse, 1840–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Former workhouse complex, dated 1842, having standard plan of entrance block, with long accommodation blocks parallel to rear. Now in use as nursing home. Detached U-plan two-storey entrance block to west with five-bay first floor and three-bay ground floor, slightly advanced end bays with gables, two-bay projecting ends to rear flanking four-bay middle part, and with single-storey addition recessed to north end of entrance block, evidence of single-storey addition to south end, and recent single-storey extensions to rear (east). Pitched slate roof, with some cast-iron rainwater goods, rendered chimneystacks, tooled limestone cornice brackets and exposed rafter terminals, gablets to middle bays of front elevation, having cut-stone copings and kneelers to gables and gablets, with loops to latter. Snecked cut limestone walls to front elevation, snecked rubble elsewhere with some smooth render, with moulded string course between floors at front. Datestone AD 1842 over entrance doorway. Square-headed windows, chamfered to front elevation, with replacement uPVC windows. Tudor arch entrance doorway with chamfered surround, flanked by square-headed narrow windows, all three openings having linking label-mouldings, with chamfered details to spandrels of doorway. Steps to entrance. Seventeen-bay centre range, comprising thirteen-bay two-storey with dormer attic block, having M-profile two-bay three-storey ends projecting to rear (east), with seven-bay single-storey projecting range at right angles, formerly containing chapel, with three-bay single-storey projections to either side running parallel to central block. Chapel wing attaching central block to nineteen-bay two-storey east range, having central four-bay two-storey wing to east elevation, and two-bay full-height slightly advanced ends to east elevation, and with recent single-storey extensions to west and north. Pitched slate roofs with exposed rafter ends, gabled dormer windows with carved timber bargeboards, raised parapets with cut-stone copings to gables, tooled cornice brackets and gabled dormer windows to roof slopes having timber casement windows. Rubble limestone walls with some lined-and-ruled render, with decorative owl statues on mounts to west elevation. Square-headed window openings with tooled sills, some having four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows, paired to rear elevation, mixed replacement timber and uPVC windows. Tudor arch door opening with cut limestone surround having half-glazed timber panelled door. Three-bay single-storey projections to north and south of chapel wing have hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks, some cast-iron rainwater goods, square-headed window openings with tooled surrounds and sills and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed window opening to north elevation of south rear wing, with cut-stone surround and tooled sill having cast-iron bars and leaded mullioned window. South projection obscured by recent lean-to extensions, having snecked dressed stone walls with some render, square-headed window openings with tooled sills and replacement mixed uPVC and timber windows, and square-headed door opening with double-leaf timber battened door to north projection. Pitched slate roof to linking chapel range with some felt, rubble walls, square-headed window openings with multi-pane leaded windows. Pitched slate roof to east range, having tooled cornice brackets and copings, with pitched replacement slate roof to wing to east, rectangular-plan ashlar bellcote with bell on cast-iron mount, ashlar chimneystacks, snecked dressed stone walls, square-headed window openings with tooled sills having some paired one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, some two-over-two pane, and some replacement uPVC windows, square-headed timber battened door and square-headed door opening with dressed voussoirs having half-glazed timber panelled door, and with some cast-iron interfloor vents. Single-storey multiple-bay lean-to corrugated-iron roofed greenhouses to east, attached to roofless single-bay single-storey outbuilding with rubble stone walls. Recent four-bay single-storey chapel to north-east. Four-bay single-storey outbuilding to north, having pitched slate roof, rendered chimneystacks, roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth course, square-headed window openings with smooth render reveals, having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows, some paired or in threes, and square-headed timber panelled door. Recent two-bay single-storey flat roofed outbuilding to south-west with multiple-bay flat-roofed projection. Four-bay single-storey outbuilding to south-east with pitched corrugated-iron roof having decorative timber bargeboards, corrugated-iron walls, square-headed window openings with three-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows, and single-bay gabled porch with square-headed door opening having timber battened door. Rubble limestone boundary walls to site, some with wrought-iron pedestrian gates.

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 10 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 made ground and water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1015 (ZIP).

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

Name

Knockanima · Cnoc an Ime

Area

491,244 m² (49.12 ha, 121.39 acres)

Civil parish

Loughrea, and its townlands

Barony

Loughrea

Electoral division

Loughrea Urban, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Loughrea Urban electoral division: 6,322 people in 2,508 households; 53% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Earlspark, Loughrea, Mountpleasant

Placenames

Knockanima 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.