Knockaunatouk
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmacduagh, barony of Kiltartan, Co. Galway; in Irish Cnocán an tSeabhaic
- Area
- 96.6 ha
- 239 acres
- Land parcels
- 28
- registered freehold, median 16,598 m² (1.66 ha, 4.1 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockaunatouk, from 551 m² to 181,799 m² (18.18 ha, 44.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 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 Knockaunatouk 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 Aug 2021Conditional
to (1) demolish existing substandard dwelling house, (2) construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area along with associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works is 171 sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211412
28 Jun 2018N/a
of (1) Extension to existing engineering workshop previously granted under 01/393, (2) new building consisting of engineering workshop, including processing ancillary to light engineering works, (3) storage structures and (4) associated site works. Gross floor space of work to be retained 541sqm and 460sqm.
Retention · Galway County Council, 18905
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: Coole-Garryland Complex SAC 000252
- Special Protection Area: Coole-Garryland SPA 004107
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Coole-Garryland Complex 000252
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockaunatouk.
Architectural heritage
- House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, north-east bay being addition. Pitched thatched roof to older part, having raised ridge and render chimneystack. Pitched tiled roof to addition. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with painted stone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed replacement uPVC door, with painted steps. Rendered boundary wall to garden to front, having wrought-iron pedestrian gate set to rendered piers.
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 5 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; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_688 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Knockaunatouk with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Knockaunatouk · Cnocán an tSeabhaic
- Area
- 965,995 m² (96.6 ha, 238.7 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmacduagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kiltartan
- Electoral division
- Killinny, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killinny electoral division: 492 people in 169 households; 91% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Castlequarter, Cloonteen, Coole Demesne, Garryland, Gortnasteal, Lisnagyreeny
- Placenames
- Knockaunatouk 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.