Knockaunnagat

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockaunnagat, from 27 m² to 73,325 m² (7.33 ha, 18.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 39 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Knockaunnagat 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.

• 13 Feb 2026N/a

  for the continued use of part of the existing authorised quarry (QD.0016 and 212132), including processing of sand and aggregates (crushing, screening, washing and lined settlement ponds) and stockpile storage area, machinery, wheelwash, maintenance shed, staff facilities and wastewater holding tanks, over circa 5.57 hectares; the extension of the quarry for extraction of sand and gravel over circa 1.67 hectares on land to the south of the existing authorised development; the restoration of the site thereafter using both site won soils and the importation of circa 100,000 tonnes of clean uncontaminated inert soil and stone by-products (a non-EIA scheduled activity that does not require waste authorisation); all related ancillary activities and facilities within a total site area of 7.24 hectares over a term of 10 years

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2660228

• 27 May 2022Conditional

  for the extension of an existing quarry to facilitate the extraction of sand and gravel and all associated site works. the proposed quarry extension is located on lands to the west of the existing quarry and the additional extraction area amounts to an area of approximately 2.7 hectares (extractable area -2.6 ha)The duration of the planning permission sought coincides with the expiry of the extant quarry planning permission(APB .07.QD0016) 63M to which the proposed development is ancillary. The upgrade of 112m of existing access track. the provision of 63m of new access track with ancillary passing bay area. The planning application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 22686

• 16 Nov 2021Conditional

  for a temporary retention planning permission for a period up to 6th November 2026. Retention planning permission is sought for the following: - Maintenance Shed (including welfare and storage areas) (Gross Floor Area: 471. 5 sqm) - Wastewater Holding Tank. - 2 no. Stormwater/Rainwater Harversting Tanks. The duration of the temporary retention permission sought coincides with the expiry of the extant quarry planning permission (ABP-07.QD0016) to which the development to be retained is ancillary.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212132

• 24 Aug 2021Refused

  for retention of the following: - Maintenance Shed (including welfare and storage areas) (Gross Floor Area: 471.5sqm) - Wastewater Holding Tank - 2 no. Stormwater/Rainwater Harvesting Tanks. Planning Permission is sought for the following: - Wastewater Treatment System including polishing filter and percolation area. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 471.5 Sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 211534

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knockaunnagat.

Recorded monuments

• GA017-130 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On the summit of a hillock in rolling grassland overlooking bogland to N. Very poorly preserved oval ringfort (N-S 50m, E-W 32:5m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is faced with stone and survives only at NE; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. The fosse and outer bank are present from NW through N to NE. A dry stone wall (L 16m) extends from the monument at SW; possibly the remains of an annexe. 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

• GA017-130001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Within W sector of ringfort (GA017-130----). An irregularly shaped area (N-S 17m, E-W 11m) within which numerous small set stones alternating with larger boulders (probably taken from the nearby cashel wall) are visible. According to local information, it was in use to c. 65 years ago. 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

• GA017-131 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the summit of a ridge in grassland. Poorly preserved oval rath (NE-SW 38m, NW-SE 34m) defined by a scarp, intervening fosse and outer bank. A road cuts the monument at NW and SE, and no visible surface trace of the enclosing elements survives to NE of it. (Neary 1914, 114, no. 141) 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

• GA017-132 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in undulating grassland. Known locally as 'Kelly's Fort' (Neary 1914, 123, no. 142), this circular rath (D 31m), in fair condition, is defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is present from W to N and at SE; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. The fosse and outer bank survive from SW through N to NE, and the outer bank is overlain by a field boundary. 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

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockaunnagat.

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 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 Knockaunnagat.

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

Name

Knockaunnagat · Cnocán na gCat

Area

893,512 m² (89.35 ha, 220.79 acres)

Civil parish

Dunmore, and its townlands

Barony

Dunmore

Electoral division

Dunmore South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dunmore South electoral division: 891 people in 351 households; 70% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonagh, Kilnaslieve, Lurgan, Menus, Menus Park, Roy

Placenames

Knockaunnagat 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.