# Knockatoor, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killeeneen, barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway; in Irish Cnoc an Tuair. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 513,513 m² (51.35 ha, 126.89 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,663 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Killeeneen, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/killeeneen.md - Barony: Dunkellin - Electoral division: Greethill, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Greethill electoral division: 1,086 people in 326 households; 89% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/19897 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 62798 - Centre: latitude 53.254268, longitude -8.757334 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockatoor, from 58 m² to 77,959 m² (7.8 ha, 19.26 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2078947: 77,959 m² (7.8 ha, 19.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2078947.md - Parcel 2078939: 77,587 m² (7.76 ha, 19.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2078939.md - Parcel 2078946: 77,500 m² (7.75 ha, 19.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2078946.md - Parcel 2031031: 76,734 m² (7.67 ha, 18.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2031031.md - Parcel 2031026: 76,207 m² (7.62 ha, 18.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2031026.md - Parcel 2078945: 73,435 m² (7.34 ha, 18.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2078945.md - Parcel 2078938: 18,544 m² (1.85 ha, 4.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2078938.md - Parcel 2031030: 5,497 m² (0.55 ha, 1.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2031030.md - Parcel 2031028: 4,643 m² (0.46 ha, 1.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2031028.md - Parcel 2031025: 3,937 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2031025.md - Parcel 4783877: 3,663 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4783877.md - Parcel 2031027: 3,373 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2031027.md - Parcel 2078943: 2,790 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2078943.md - Parcel 2078937: 2,247 m² (0.22 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2078937.md - Parcel 2078944: 2,132 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2078944.md - Parcel 2411130: 2,131 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2411130.md - Parcel 2078942: 1,977 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2078942.md - Parcel 2078940: 1,727 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2078940.md - Parcel 2031029: 1,005 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2031029.md - Parcel 2078941: 149 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2078941.md - Parcel 2411135: 58 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2411135.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Knockatoor 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) 2 applications, newest first. - 31 Mar 2023, Galway County Council 2360325: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to install a septic tank & percolation area to service the existing gatehouse. The gatehouse is listed on the National Inventory of Architectural heritage reg. no. 30409610. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360325/0 - 3 Jun 2022, Galway County Council 2260579: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a new dwelling house, a domestic garage, and wastewater treatment system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 133 sqm.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2260579/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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 Knockatoor. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockatoor. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockatoor. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_833, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_833.zip (ZIP). - 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/knockatoor.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/knockatoor.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/knockatoor.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Knockatoor 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) - Cahercrin: https://everytownland.com/galway/cahercrin.md - Laghtphilip: https://everytownland.com/galway/laghtphilip.md - Parkroe: https://everytownland.com/galway/parkroe-63528.md - Rockfield: https://everytownland.com/galway/rockfield.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/knockatoor - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/knockatoor