Knockatee West
Townland in the civil parish of Dunmore, barony of Dunmore, Co. Galway; in Irish Cnoc an Tí Thiar
- Area
- 112.4 ha
- 278 acres
- Land parcels
- 70
- registered freehold, median 4,419 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
70 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockatee West, from 166 m² to 104,168 m² (10.42 ha, 25.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Knockatee West 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
3 Mar 2026Conditional
to construct a three bay slatted cattle shed
Permission · Galway County Council, 2644
22 Oct 2024Conditional
sought to construct new dwelling house and domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and associated siteworks. Gross floor space of proposed works: 147.00 sqm (H), 48 sqm (G)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461397
1 Sept 2023Conditional
to upgrade the existing septic tank effluent treatment system to a proprietary effluent treatment system with an associated percolation area for the existing dwellinghouse
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361039
19 Jan 2023Conditional
a) dwelling house as constructed, septic tank, percolation area and associated works on revised site boundaries, b) Domestic Garage, c). fuel Shed/ Store, as constructed and all associated work. The dwelling house was originally granted permission under planning reference 03/5255.Gross floor space of work to be retained 99.00sqm.
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360021
2 Sept 2022Conditional
of existing dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, percolation area and all ancillary site development works on a site with revised boundaries from that previously granted under planning re. no. 01/2317. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 180 sqm (house) & 43 sqm (garage)
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 221019
3 Dec 2021N/a
for development as described as follows: (i) To demolish the existing dwelling house (ii) To construct a single dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: Dwelling: 175 sqm, Garage: 60 sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212285
14 Oct 2020Conditional
of dwelling house, domestic garage and fuel store and associated services on revised site boundaries. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 165 sqm (House), 38.7 sqm (Garage)
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201510
24 Sept 2018Conditional
of the existing domestic garage/fuel store and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of work to be retained 50 sqm.
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181338
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Corrib SAC 000297
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockatee West.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockatee West.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knockatee West.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Knockatee West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Knockatee West · Cnoc an Tí Thiar
- Area
- 1,123,750 m² (112.38 ha, 277.68 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dunmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dunmore
- Electoral division
- Dunmore North, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dunmore North electoral division: 604 people in 221 households; 94% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Addergoole Beg, Ballymoney North, Gortnagoyne, Gortnalea, Knockatee East
- Placenames
- Knockatee West 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.