Knockavally

45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockavally, from 1,514 m² to 172,781 m² (17.28 ha, 42.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Knockavally 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.

• 14 Aug 2026N/a

  to construct a new dwelling house, sewage treatment system, a new site entrance and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661401

• 22 May 2025Conditional

  for the construction of a new dwelling house, installation of a wastewater treatment system and associated polishing filter bed, as well as ancillary site works and site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 148.05 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560634

• 12 Aug 2024Conditional

  to renovate and extend existing dwelling, decommission and remove existing septic tank and upgrade with new advanced mechanical wastewater treatment system as well as all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed work: 61.00 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461033

• 3 Nov 2022Refused

  to construct a new dwelling house, effluent treatment system and polishing filter as well as all ancillary site works and site services.Gross floor space of proposed works 148.05sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261112

• 14 Apr 2022N/a

  to construct a new dwelling house, effluent treatment system and polishing filter as well as all ancillary site works and site services. Gross floor space of proposed works 209.80 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260350

• 6 May 2021N/a

  to construct a new dwelling house, effluent treatment system and polishing filter, new vehicular entrance as well as all ancillary site works and site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 246.51 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21762

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

Designated sites

The National Parks and Wildlife Service did not answer.

Recorded monuments

The Sites and Monuments Record did not answer.

Architectural heritage

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

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

The EPA radon map did not answer.

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knockavally.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Knockavally with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Knockavally · Cnoc an Bhealaigh

Area

813,178 m² (81.32 ha, 200.94 acres)

Civil parish

Omey, and its townlands

Barony

Ballynahinch

Electoral division

Clifden, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,059 people lived in 796 households in the Clifden electoral division. 60% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 23% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Belleek, Fahy, Kill, Kingstown Glebe or Ballymaconry, Tooreen

Placenames

Knockavally 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.